Celebrity Kitchen

Celebrity Kitchen is one of the best restaurants in Toronto that has more than likely never appeared on your culinary radar. If you venture up to the northwest corner of the city, you’re in for amazing quality fresh seafood, relaxed friendly service in a splendidly spotless spot. This is a small place; just three hand made rustic picnic tables represent the sum total of the seating — so arriving early is a good idea.
Celebrity Kitchen is quite simply the best of Jamaican food; not the pattie/​roti take away shop variety but the freshest seafood artfully blended with fresh spices. The fresh snapper is great in any of the variants offered — but the Escovitch gets the nod for the way the chef perfectly applied and the dry spices and consistently manages to come up with spectacularly moist fish. The scallops and conch combo is labeled «Viagra» on the menu for reputed properties — not sure about the efficacy, but the flavour was world class.
Toronto is fortunate to have many Caribbean restaurants, Roti shops, and take away spots — most of them offer very tasty, inexpensive food; Celebrity Kitchen has very little to do with these other establishments — it represents not only some of the finest Jamaican food I’ve had the pleasure to consume, but some of freshest, tastiest seafood the city has to offer. Truth be told, I never expected to find such a place tucked amidst an endless sea of nail salons, weave joints, and physical therapists of unknown virtue — but that is a large part of the joy of culinary discovery in the new Toronto.