Toronto 
Events Description
Beginning Thursday, June 13, The Bentway will host weekly communal dining opportunities curated by The Depanneur, a Toronto event space and innovative culinary talent showcase. Exploring Toronto’s diverse culinary traditions, the Communal Table is for friends and neighbours to come together, share a delicious meal, and make new friends!
Featuring a roster of local chefs with exciting culinary creations, each Communal Table experience offers a distinct menu, a friendly welcoming vibe, and live musical performances.
The first Communal Table dinner at The Bentway is with Toronto chef Jamie Kennedy, a pioneer of sustainable gastronomy, and features a Farm-to-Table menu showcasing local produce from Ontario farmers. June 13.
Ojibway chef Shawn Adler of Pow Wow Café presents a dinner menu to complement the 7th Annual Indigenous Arts Festival (at Fort York, June 18-23). Chef Adler’s cooking combines his Indigenous traditions with flavours from other cultures for delicious, playful, and educational culinary creations. His menu will feature Three Sisters Stew with chives and fiddleheads, wild rice pilaf, and home-made cedar soda. June 20.
The Newcomer Kitchen, initially founded at The Depanneur in 2016 to provide a social and economic opportunity for Syrian refugee women, quickly became a hub for the women to meet, create a community, and make home-cooked meals together. The women of Newcomer Kitchen will host two dinners at the Communal Table, serving a selection of traditional Syrian home cooking. June 27 and July 25.
Both of the Paella Nights, with chef José Arato of Pimentón Spanish and Mediterranean Fine Food, will feature a giant paella prepared onsite, along with a selection of tapas, accompanied by a Flamenco performance. July 4 and August 1.
Filipino chef Erwin Joaquin of Big E Hawaiian Grinds, will host two Pinoy Kamayan Dinners at the Communal Table. A Filipino feast consisting of meat, seafood, garlic rice, and more is served on banana leaves and eaten by hand. July 11 and August 8.
Chef Tsewang Chodon of TC’s Tibetan Momo will prepare traditional Tibetan and Himalayan cuisine, including her own handmade Momos, a south Asian dumpling native to Tibet, made from local ingredients. July 18 and August 15.
The final Communal Table of the season is another Farm-to-Table meal, from rebel chef Greg Couillard who shook up Toronto dining in the 80s, with a menu full of Caribbean flavours including his famous Jump-Up soup inspired by the first Caribana parade in 1967. August 22.
The Bentway’s Communal Table—an inclusive, diverse and affordable family-style dinner series—is an opportunity to come together, to imagine and to share, and to celebrate food’s capacity to connect people with places, history, and a sense of belonging.
Who is it for?
all-ages
HOW MUCH
$12
Pre-registration is requested Online
Walk-ups welcome if there is availability
In the spirit of this program and The Bentway’s ‘Communitas’ Season, guests are asked to bring their own dishes and a non-perishable food item for donation to local shelters.
WHEN & WHERE
Date & Time: Every Thursday | June 13 – August 22, 2019
One seating at 6:30-8:30pm
Venue: The Bentway
Public space under the Gardiner, stretching from Strachan Avenue to Bathurst Street.
250 Fort York Blvd, Toronto
Paid Parking nearby
Public transport accessible
