Review of Strawberry Sorbet at IL FORNELLO on The Danforth by louisg

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This is my second visit to Il Fornello restaurant in Toronto’s Greektown neighbourhood. The neighbourhood was once dominated by Greek immigrants and restaurants (hence the name), but now it’s very multicultural. Il Fornello is an Italian restaurant with a very good plant-based menu to complement its ‘regular’ menu. Kudos to the restaurant for taking the initiative to create very good plant-based /vegan dishes. This is so contrary to my observation and experience at many other Italian restaurants that just refuse to evolve. 

Create / Offer it and they will come! And come back!

We ordered a couple desserts to share. The second was Strawberry Sorbet. It was not on the menu (the waitress suggested it), so I have no idea how much it was. Presumably it was reasonably priced like the restaurant’s other offerings. This sorbet dessert was more for me than for my friend. I had a most of it. I’m not a big fan of sorbet, but I couldn’t pass on this flavour. I love strawberry! This sorbet was perfectly strawberry-y and capped off a wonderful meal. It was smooth, refreshing and light.

My date / friend who was fully open to eating vegan was very impressed with every dish we had ordered.

I will definitely return to Il Fornello and support / promote its vegan menu, whether it be this location or any of its other locations. 

Our waitress last night was great. She was very helpful in recommending various dishes.