The first thing you notice when you walk into the Corso Italia dining hotspot, the Big Ragu, is the delicious aroma wafting from the cozy restaurant’s open kitchen. The scents of Italian cuisine — fresh tomato sauce, roasted lamb, grilled calamari — fill the air of the gently lit dining room. The restaurant’s 13 tables are each covered in adorably kitsch red-and-white checkered tablecloths, and they fill up quickly at dinnertime.
The Big Ragu’s modest size is a good thing: it means you’ll likely get some personal attention from the owner, Jan Pradhan, who likes to greet his customers with a small plate of complimentary eggplant parmigiana or goat cheese and roasted red pepper crostini. And if he doesn’t greet you at the door, it’s not hard to guess where Jan is. “My customers know that they’ll find me cooking in the back,” he says with a hearty laugh.
Fresh eggs prepared your way
Fresh eggs with peameal bacon or farmer’s sausage
Bacon & cheddar omelette
Grilled vegetable omelette
Spinach & feta omelette
Brie, mushroom, & spinach omelette
Eggs Benedict
Poached eggs served on a toasted English muffin, layered with peameal bacon,
& topped with hollandaise sauce.
Eggs Florentine
Poached eggs served on a toasted English muffin, layered with cooked spinach,
& topped with hollandaise sauce.
Eggs Benjamin
Poached eggs served on a toasted English muffin, layered with smoked salmon,
& topped with hollandaise sauce.
Simple Salad
Romaine, radicchio,tomato,cucumber,house dressing
The P&P
A mixed green salad of Pear, spiced almonds, cranberries, & Grana Padano. Topped off with a lemon dressing.
Crostini di Casa
Toasted bread with prosciutto, pear, gorgonzola, & toasted walnuts. Then drizzled with honey.
Calamari
Grilled calamari served over a bed of greens topped with homemade salsa verde.
Magic Mushrooms
Portobello & button mushrooms baked with goat cheese over a bed of arugula with a wine reduction.
Antipasto for 2
Rustic deli meats, assorted cheeses, & marinated vegetables.
Caeser Salad
Oven Roasted Beet & Arugula Salad
Topped with Goat Cheese
(Home made pasta. Available gluten free!)
Bucatini
Smoked Bacon,Caramalized Onions, Tomato Sauce
Spaghetti & Meatballs
Long pasta, meatballs in a special plum tomato sauce. Almost as good as Mama makes!
Penne
Penne with goat cheese, black olives, roasted peppers, diced tomato & onions.
Gnocchi
Sauted spinach & cheese dumplings in a plum tomato sauce.
Agnolotti
Sweet potato filled pasta in a butter & sage sauce.
Pappardelle
Portobello Button Mushrooms with asiago cheese
Linguini
with shrimp and mussels in white wine tomato pesto sauce
Crab Ravioli
Fresh made crab stuffed ravioli in a rosé pesto sauce.
The Big Ragu
papardelle, lamb, tomato sauce
Fettuccine
with chicken, mushroom, baby spinach in cream sauce
Spinach Gnocchi
with gorgonzola & spinach in walnut cream sauce
Kids Pasta portiones also available, ask your server
Meat and Fish entrée changes daily
Please ask your server for details
Veal Osso Buco
served with roasted potatoes and rapini
Grilled Salmon
topped with lemon cream sauce
Shrimps & Scallops
pan-fried in a lemon garlic sauce, served with a side of fettuccine alfredo sauce
Veal Marsala
Topped with mushroom and Marsala Sauce
Veal Chop
with lemon mushroom sauce
Oven Roasted Rack of Lamb
Arctic Char Fish
in lemon caper sauce
Seafood Risotto
with shrimp and mussles in a tomato sauce
Oven Roasted Duck Breast
topped with cranberry sauce
Tiramisu
Italian lady finger cookies dipped in espresso with mascarpone cream cheese.
Chocolate Rasberry Tartufo
Chocolate Lava Cake
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I dragged my family to this restaurant all the way from Newmarket. I saw a pic and a review and thought it was somewhere i wanted to try out. Although it wasn't horrible, it was dissapointing. First they present you with a basket of bread that had to have been at least two days old, even with the olive oil they had poured over it. That's my pet peeve with restaurants, if you don't have fresh bread, don't serve it at all! They charge $10 for an eggplant parmigianno appetizer that was so small it was basically two bites. Tiny, tiny appetizer portions. Not what you expect from a rustic italian restaurant. The pizza crust was dry and not what we expected and the gnocci smorazza was good but was drowning in sauce. Very small restaurant, rather dated. I was really pulling for this restaurant. But i just can't give it a very good review.
That's my place in Toronto! Don't expect freaky cuisine! Trust in the knowledge of the cook and in the freshness of the food.
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