This restaurant review was first published as “Dr. Laffa Brings Iraqi Bread to Toronto” on The Jew and the Carrot blog at the Forward.
Fuad Haba at the taboon
Septuagenarian Fuad Haba was a long way from his birthplace of Iraq and his family’s famous bakery on Agrippas Street in Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda market as he made laffa bread in a taboon oven in suburban Toronto. But neither he nor the customers at the new Dr. Laffa restaurant, where the retiree is hard at work, seemed to be deterred by the freezing weather on a recent wintery night.
Fuad was in Toronto helping his son Sasi and Sasi’s business partner Yoram Gabay with their new venture, which brings the tastes, smells and atmosphere of the shuk to an unsuspecting location tucked inside a business park northwest of the city’s main Jewish neighborhoods along the Bathurst Street corridor. The kosher restaurant offers all the typical Israeli (meat) comfort foods, but it is the delicious, fresh laffa — a full foot in diameter — that is its biggest draw.
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Tags: Dr. Laffa, Fuad Haba, Iraqi bread, Israeli food, laffa, Sasi Haba, Toronto, Toronto restaurants, Yoram Gabay
