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THE BENTWAY presents COMMUNAL TABLE

THE BENTWAY presents COMMUNAL TABLE, affordable family-style community dinners, June 13–August 22, 2019

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Every Thursday, June 13 – August 22, 2019
The Bentway

Something’s cooking at The Bentway!

Beginning Thursday, June 13, The Bentway will host weekly communal dining opportunities curated by The Depanneur, a Toronto event space and innovative culinary talent showcase. Exploring Toronto’s diverse culinary traditions, the Communal Table is for friends and neighbours to come together, share a delicious meal, and make new friends!

Featuring a roster of local chefs with exciting culinary creations, each Communal Table experience offers a distinct menu, a friendly welcoming vibe, and live musical performances.

  • The first Communal Table dinner at The Bentway is with Toronto chef Jamie Kennedy, a pioneer of sustainable gastronomy, and features a Farm-to-Table menu showcasing local produce from Ontario farmers. June 13.
  • Ojibway chef Shawn Adler of Pow Wow Café presents a dinner menu to complement the 7th Annual Indigenous Arts Festival (at Fort York, June 18-23). Chef Adler’s cooking combines his Indigenous traditions with flavours from other cultures for delicious, playful, and educational culinary creations. His menu will feature Three Sisters Stew with chives and fiddleheads, wild rice pilaf, and home-made cedar soda. June 20.
  • The Newcomer Kitchen, initially founded at The Depanneur in 2016 to provide a social and economic opportunity for Syrian refugee women, quickly became a hub for the women to meet, create a community, and make home-cooked meals together. The women of Newcomer Kitchen will host two dinners at the Communal Table, serving a selection of traditional Syrian home cooking. June 27 and July 25.
  • Both of the Paella Nights, with chef José Arato of Pimentón Spanish and Mediterranean Fine Food, will feature a giant paella prepared onsite, along with a selection of tapas, accompanied by a Flamenco performance. July 4 and August 1.
  • Filipino chef Erwin Joaquin of Big E Hawaiian Grinds, will host two Pinoy Kamayan Dinners at the Communal Table. A Filipino feast consisting of meat, seafood, garlic rice, and more is served on banana leaves and eaten by hand. July 11 and August 8.
  • Chef Tsewang Chodon of TC’s Tibetan Momo will prepare traditional Tibetan and Himalayan cuisine, including her own handmade Momos, a south Asian dumpling native to Tibet, made from local ingredients. July 18 and August 15.
  • The final Communal Table of the season is another Farm-to-Table meal, from rebel chef Greg Couillard who shook up Toronto dining in the 80s, with a menu full of Caribbean flavours including his famous Jump-Up soup inspired by the first Caribana parade in 1967. August 22.
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The Bentway’s Communal Table—an inclusive, diverse and affordable family-style dinner series—is an opportunity to come together, to imagine and to share, and to celebrate food’s capacity to connect people with places, history, and a sense of belonging.

THE BENTWAY COMMUNAL TABLE
Every Thursday
June 13 – August 22, 2019
One seating at 6:30-8:30 pm
Pre-registration is requested: thebentway.ca/communal-table
Help ensure there is no food waste by reserving a spot in advance for $12
(Walk-ups welcome if there is availability)

In the spirit of this program and The Bentway’s ‘Communitas’ Season,
guests are asked to bring their own dishes and a
non-perishable food item for donation to local shelters.

Access to The Bentway is Always Free
Enjoy WiFi Courtesy of Beanfield

The Bentway’s summer season is supported by the City of Toronto, Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, Ira Gluskin & Maxine Granovsky Gluskin, Richard M. Ivey and the Ivey Commissioning Fund, Donald K. Johnson, O.C. & Anna McCowan-Johnson, Langford Family Foundation at Toronto Foundation, Northwood Family Office, Diamond Corp, Hal Jackman Foundation, Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts, Exclaim!, The Walrus, SPIN, Pilot Coffee, Scadding Court Community Centre, and Fort York National Historic Site.

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