By Stephen Weir
The message the paper obtained early final week introduced a smile to our faces whereas rapidly attending to the purpose. Al “Allos” Foster, the pan-playing proprietor of the What A Jerk meals truck, has parked his cellular kitchen for the winter and moved his act indoors to Etobicoke.
His new sit-down spot, What a Jerk Restaurant, in Lengthy Department, close to Lakeshore and twenty ninth Road, has been open for over a month, giving Foster and his workforce the luxurious of cooking indoors throughout this bitterly chilly January.
“So I did a factor…” he wrote in a textual content message. “I’ve been working my very own cellular meals enterprise known as What A Jerk! since 2018 (how time flies!). I’m now comfortable to tell you that I’ve expanded the model to incorporate a brick-and-mortar restaurant in Etobicoke. What A Jerk Restaurant is now open for enterprise at 3303 Lake Shore Blvd West.”
The restaurant affords all of it: takeout, dine-in, house supply, and a full Caribbean menu. “Sure,” Foster instructed The Caribbean Digital camera, “we’re having stay leisure on Fridays and Saturdays.”
And to reply the second-most-asked query: Sure, the What A Jerk meals truck might be again on the street when winter is over. The truck has a big following at Toronto out of doors occasions and on widespread avenue scenes.
As for the number-one query? “Are you continue to with Pan Fantasy, Mr. Foster?” For the previous 21 years, Foster has been the music arranger for Canada’s most profitable steelband, incomes his repute as certainly one of Toronto’s most revered younger arrangers. “After all,” he emphatically instructed the paper on Wednesday. “It’s busy, busy, however I’m with Pan Fantasy without end.”
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