Fat Friday - Jump Cafe & Bar

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(Not actual photo of food)

This time every year, the city of Toronto puts on Winterlicious, where selected restaurants offer fixed price menus for lunch and dinner. You can check out all the menus online to see what they offer for both meals, and then head to the one you think looks the best. We really like this event and try to eat out at least 2 or 3 times for the two weeks that it runs. It's great because it allows us to eat at new and interesting restaurants that we might not have tried otherwise (usually because they can be quite pricey...).

So this week we made reservations at Jump Cafe & Bar (you will need reservations, and usually at least 2 days in advance). Jump is from the Oliver and Bonacini line of restaurants, (which we had recently eaten at) and we were excited to try a different version.

We started with a fresh spinach salad with goat cheese, walnuts, and dried cranberries, followed with steak with cauliflower gratin for our main. We finished our meal with dessert. Ah, dessert (since the price of the meal includes three courses, you don't have to feel guilty about ordering dessert!). Matt enjoyed the vanilla panna cotta, and I had the creamy chocolate torte. Both were delectable!

We hope to enjoy another meal out this Friday with friends, but once Winterlicious is done, we are going back to basics with Fat Friday. There are a few new burger places that have opened up that we need to test out. Plus, we're still looking for a contender of the pulled pork sandwich we had at the Stockyards (which seems so long ago...).