Pukka
Toronto, Canada
The read// why locals go
Pukka has been reimagining Indian cooking on St. Clair Avenue West since 2013, and still calls itself a neighbourhood restaurant. The kitchen sends out dishes with recognisable roots and a modern hand: pumpkin curry, stuffed paneer, Hakka tofu, Punjabi chicken and butter chicken, with most mains between 24 and 29 CAD. There is no tasting menu and no ceremony, just a la carte ordering in a lively dining room that spills onto a patio when the weather turns. Genuine, authentic and refined is how the owners put it. The St. Clair West crowd has treated it as their own for over a decade.
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St. Clair Avenue West 778 — Toronto
The read// why locals go
Pukka has been reimagining Indian cooking on St. Clair Avenue West since 2013, and still calls itself a neighbourhood restaurant. The kitchen sends out dishes with recognisable roots and a modern hand: pumpkin curry, stuffed paneer, Hakka tofu, Punjabi chicken and butter chicken, with most mains between 24 and 29 CAD. There is no tasting menu and no ceremony, just a la carte ordering in a lively dining room that spills onto a patio when the weather turns. Genuine, authentic and refined is how the owners put it. The St. Clair West crowd has treated it as their own for over a decade.
