{"id":1443,"date":"2011-08-06T01:55:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T06:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2012-05-01T10:13:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:13:44","slug":"cafe-fiorentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"Cafe Fiorentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1444\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tina-and-Alex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1444\" title=\"Tina and Alex\" src=\"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tina-and-Alex-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tina-and-Alex-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Tina-and-Alex-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tina Leckie, owner-chef of Cafe Fiorentina, and her partner, Alex Chong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was the pickled cherries that got me. There they are in the centre of the picture \u2013 black and juicy with a peppery, spicy, sweet-sour tang \u2013 a brilliant and unexpected condiment to a small collation of Caf\u00e9 Fiorentina\u2019s deli delights. The Caf\u00e9 is a brand new arrival on the Danforth, taking over the old Dash Kitchen location roughly opposite Allen\u2019s, and is a true labour of love for owner Tina Leckie, long-time sous chef at C\u00e9lestin, and her partner, Alex Chong. Having two such good cooks in the kitchen takes the place well beyond the average caf\u00e9. The quality of soups, salads, pizza, quiches and panini \u2013 all made from scratch \u2013 soars. Tina has also been a pastry chef so the sweet side of things and the baking is also first class, from house-made breads served with the soup to miniature brioches. The espresso \u2013 espressed from a Faema E61 (a considerable investment for the new business) \u2013 is the Danforth nonpareil.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, this is a great addition to the street and I wish the place very well indeed. Caf\u00e9 Fiorentina is at 236 Danforth Avenue.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1445\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Fiorentina-food.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1445\" title=\"Fiorentina food\" src=\"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Fiorentina-food-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Fiorentina-food-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Fiorentina-food-1024x820.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A delectable deli collation from the Cafe - pickled cherries in the centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Fiorentina-ext.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1446\" title=\"Fiorentina ext\" src=\"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Fiorentina-ext-1024x729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Fiorentina-ext-1024x729.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Fiorentina-ext-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the pickled cherries that got me. There they are in the centre of the picture \u2013 black and juicy with a peppery, spicy, sweet-sour tang \u2013 a brilliant and unexpected condiment to a small collation of Caf\u00e9 Fiorentina\u2019s deli delights. The Caf\u00e9 is a brand new arrival on the Danforth, taking over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,19,95],"tags":[475,473,474],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}