This Toronto pizzeria hides a sultry bar with severe chunk

This can be North of Brooklyn Pizzeria’s eighth Toronto location, however it’s arguably its slickest but. Set within the metropolis’s western district of Etobicoke, the venue has a spatial complexity that elevates this much-loved hotspot for New York-style slices.

North of Brooklyn Queensway, Toronto

The brand new outpost is designed by MRDK – the Montreal studio behind a number of of Toronto’s most distinctive restaurant interiors, together with North of Brooklyn’s Avenue Highway outpost – and friends enter beneath a lightbox to discover a crisp white takeout space. Bathed in pure mild, the area is wrapped in Dtile moulded tiles, making a steady floor that runs from wall to ceiling.

Upstairs, the room takes cues from nostalgic Italian design however pushes it in direction of a extra modern edge, centred round a low-rise bar clad in tumbled-marble mosaic with a zinc countertop. Above it, a fluted pendant by In Frequent With casts a heat wash of sunshine.

The 40-seat eating room is outlined by a sensual and intimate color palette of darkish wooden, inexperienced and crimson. ‘To maximise pure mild, we reduce new home windows into the facet façade, aligning them with walnut eating tables that cantilever from the partitions and nest throughout the niches,’ MRDK explains. Every desk is paired with a model of Joe Colombo’s ‘Tube’ chair.