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Chefs teaming up to bring one of Toronto's most iconic lost restaurants back to life

Phoebe Knight, Dished

created: May 9, 2025, 8:23 p.m. | updated: May 11, 2025, 4:55 a.m.

Two Toronto chefs are joining forces to bring one of the city's most legendary now-defunct restaurants back to life for one night only. Spend enough time with anyone who lived in Toronto during the '70s, '80s and '90s, and eventually the question "remember Ginsberg & Wong?" A perhaps unlikely combination of cuisines at the time, Ginsberg and Wong combined all the staples of a Jewish deli with Chinese classics. If one person was in the mood for a Reuben sandwich and another wanted Szechuan chicken, everybody was happy. Heck, David Schwartz, the chef behind two of the city's best-known Chinese restaurants, just opened a deli of his own.

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