If people ask me, 'What do you think could improve in Toronto dining,' I'd say there's nothing to improve on.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make a special occasion.
Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.
I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.
I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.
I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. I do think there's some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.
And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad.
It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed to serving it.
Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.
There's always room to improve in a restaurant. A restaurant is better or worse every day than it was the day before. It's impossible not to be, because it's human.