Bellona的Bellona’s Sharesbles (veganized) — louisg的评论 (2025年8月31日)

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I offered to treat my parents to dinner today (August 31,2025) at a vegetarian / vegan Italian restaurant called Bellona Kitchen. For those who live in Toronto, this restaurant has two locations. We went to the one on Jane Street.

I was surprised my dad accepted my offer as he usually gives me a hard time about eating at vegan restaurants, or when I insist that he eat vegan if I’m paying. He normally gets cranky if there’s no meat, fish or “real” cheese available. Anyways, my father, mother, and I enjoyed our experience and meal at Bellona Kitchen.

The menu is a mix of vegetarian and vegan offerings. Some of the vegetarian options could be veganized (which we opted to do).

We started with Bellona Shareables. This platter was a lot bigger than I had anticipated. It consisted of 3 appetizers: Bruschetta, Truffle Fries and Meatball Sliders (there were 3 sliders to choose from). See the first 6 photos of the food and menu descriptions.

All of them were fantastic. My dad didn’t complain about the vegan cheese. I think he was just blown away by how surprisingly good everything tasted and by the novelty of the presentation. The balsamic glaze drizzle on the bruschetta and truffle fries was a wonderful touch; it’s not something that we’re accustomed to having. Also, the mushroom and brown rice combo for the ‘meatballs’ was so delicious that it didn’t really matter that there was no ground beef in it.

Without any hesitation, I would definitely get this again as a shareable appetizer. I didn’t realize the price was $37 until now (when I looked up the price to write this review). Yeah, it’s more than I thought it would be, but the taste and the pleasure I derived from my parents really enjoying it were worth it.

As we walked out of the restaurant, my dad said to me, “if you come back here, call me”. I’ll definitely be coming back here. There are so many more menu offerings I want to try.

Service was excellent. Sofia, our waitress and the owner’s daughter, was incredibly helpful in offering suggestions.

I very highly recommend this restaurant and Bellona’s Shareables.

By the way, I think it was when I started following Bellona Kitchen on Facebook that I had received a $30 voucher which I used tonight.