Gusto 501
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Gusto 501
Opened just weeks before the COVID-19 lockdown, a Toronto restaurant is adapting to become a pandemic dining destination
“Owner Janet Zuccarini considers Gusto 501 her ultimate showpiece, the culmination of an impressive career running seven restaurants in Toronto and Los Angeles, with over 700 employees on payroll pre-pandemic. A chance meeting with local architect Alex Josephson at an event led her to hire his firm, PARTISANS, for the job. “I think they are geniuses,” she says, often, of Josephson and his partners, Pooya Baktash and Jonathan Friedman. She gave the studio creative freedom to turn a narrow lot in Corktown into a 900-square-metre culinary destination that would turn eating out into a theatrical event.” Read more.
Architects: PARTISANS
Photography: Nic Lehoux
Published: Canadian Architect, August 2020
Writing
Gusto 501
Opened just weeks before the COVID-19 lockdown, a Toronto restaurant is adapting to become a pandemic dining destination
“Owner Janet Zuccarini considers Gusto 501 her ultimate showpiece, the culmination of an impressive career running seven restaurants in Toronto and Los Angeles, with over 700 employees on payroll pre-pandemic. A chance meeting with local architect Alex Josephson at an event led her to hire his firm, PARTISANS, for the job. “I think they are geniuses,” she says, often, of Josephson and his partners, Pooya Baktash and Jonathan Friedman. She gave the studio creative freedom to turn a narrow lot in Corktown into a 900-square-metre culinary destination that would turn eating out into a theatrical event.” Read more.
Architects: PARTISANS
Photography: Nic Lehoux
Published: Canadian Architect, August 2020