Adam Minster's Dovercourt Village food haunts
The Food Dudes co-founder and restaurant owner shares four neighbourhood spots where he eats when he's not running his three restaurants.
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Adam Minster, a Food Dudes partner and co-owner of Rasa, Chop Hop, and Sara, built Harbord Village's Rasa into a Bib Gourmand–awarded neighbourhood institution. When he's not at one of his restaurants, the new dad gravitates toward neighbourhood spots and simple meals close to home. Here are four of his favourite places to eat in and around Dovercourt Village.
Good Behaviour, at 342 Westmoreland Ave. N., pairs handcrafted ice cream and submarine sandwiches. Minster is a regular for the meatball sub—a pork-and-veal blend that's soft, juicy, and packed with flavour, finished with house chili oil and fresh basil. The rotating monthly ice cream flavours are another draw; Minster describes it as "Pokémon for me—you gotta catch 'em all." This month he went with lingonberry and lavender.
Better Days Coffee and Donuts, at 963 Dovercourt Rd., converted Minster to the doughnut cult. He was never a big doughnut guy, but Better Days' sour cream glazed doughnut changed his mind. "I think Better Days makes the best one I've ever had," he says. "It has perfectly crisp edges beneath just the right amount of glaze, which is just the right amount of sweet. The centre is dense and crumbly in all the ways a great sour cream glazed doughnut should be."
Better Days opened recently in Dovercourt Village, bringing back classic Canadian doughnuts to the neighbourhood.