Tokaji Wine Boutique + Restaurant

1 Reviews on “Tokaji Wine Boutique + Restaurant”

• Anthony.baranyi

  Palaschinta. A classic Hungarian desert crepe filled with either cottage cheese or apricot jam.07 Dec, 2014Great Hungarian Surprise in Vaughan. This afternoon I was lamenting the lack of Hungarian restaurants in Toronto nowadays when my wife suggested that I do a search in a wider area than just Toronto. To my great surprise a relatively new Hungarian restaurant, Tokaji Wine Boutique and Restaurant, turned up in Vaughan. I checked out their website, was intrigued by what I saw, and then called them to make a reservation for this evening. So just before 6 PM my wife and I headed off along Hwy 407 to Weston Road, drove up just past Hwy 7, and there in a strip mall on the east side was the restaurant.We went in to the nicely modern and simply designed dining room and were seated by a very cheerful young woman with a Hungarian accent. She brought the menus to us, along with their wine menu of Hungarian wines. The room had a wonderful aroma of fresh Hungarian cooking and my tastebuds went into overdrive. The menu had a very good assortment of Hungarian dishes and it was hard to chose because I was ready to eat everything. My wife ordered goulash soup as an appetizer and stuffed cabbage as a main course. I ordered the veal paprikas with a cucumber salad.We were then served a pre-appetizer of toasted swirled-rye bread and a selection of unsalted butter, olive oil with fresh garlic, and large green olives. Olive oil and green olives are not traditional Hungarian pre-snacks, but they were very good any way. My wife’s soup came next. It was intensely flavoured and full of very tender and tasty meat. I enthusiastically helped her finish it. Our mains came next. My veal paprikas was tasty and tender. The nokedli were amazingly tiny and extremely tasty. The cucumber salad was perfect and my wife kept on taking portions. My wife’s stuffed cabbage was filled with intensely flavoured meat – it was almost as if the rolls were stuffed with a delicious sausage meat. Halfway through we did a plate switch and finished off each other’s meals.Then came desert. I immediately ordered palascinta and was ecstatic to find out that they had the version filled with apricot jam available as well as the version with cottage cheese. The waitress told my wife that they had a special desert of walnut rolls and poppyseed rolls, so she ordered that. When the deserts came we were surprised to find that my palaschinta didn’t have sour cream on top, so my wife immediately grabbed a taste and loved it. (My wife does not like sour cream, which always makes it a chancy thing to take her to a Hungarian restaurant.) I was in food heaven – the palaschinta tasted just like what my grandmother used to make when I was a kid.So all-in-all it was a great night. The restaurant was not too full and the service was very friendly and responsive. The background music was classical instead of the Csardas music that one usually expects to find in a Hungarian restaurant. And yes, I did try some Hungarian wine – a nice full-bodied red called a Bikaver – and it was very good with the meal.

  March 7, 2015, 2:02 am

  Log in to Reply