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A Place to Dine,
A Place Where Flavour Lives

It's the flavour that Layla missed most...

Her home before coming to Canada was Lebanon - a country where life is lived deeply and richly in every moment, where every day is seized and filled with flavour and family. And food, always food, was at the heart of this life. As a young girl, Layla used to pick grape leaves and sumac with her grandmother, and then sit alongside the elders as they hammered the sumac to release its rich flavours. The Grandmothers in her village all had callouses on their hands from working these natural ingredients. And once prepared, they would incorporate just the right amount of each ingredient into age old recipes that they would then share together.

That flavour of life was what Layla missed most about home. So she decided to recreate it and opened a place where flavour lives. A place where these memories could shape new experiences and inspire new families.