This 44-year-old Toronto restaurant is what remains from when Queen West was cool Toronto TorontoRestaurant
Queen Mother is truly a family affair. Rosenbaum originally opened it with the help of his sister, Anique Rosenbaum, and friend David Stearn. His wife Kelly St. John became the general manager for both Queen Mother and Rivoli in 1988.
Instead of a buyout, they made the deal a"buy in" and the staff joined as partners, with Queen Mother now owned by Rosenbaum, St. John, Henning and Sivaranjan. You can still find the print hanging to this day if you look hard enough, nestled in among the antique bones of the historical 1850s building.
"In 1984 we added a number of their Lao and Thai dishes, like pad thai, ping gai etc, to what we called our global comfort food menu. Chef Noy, still in our kitchen, is a member of the original family. The only restaurant in Toronto serving Thai food around that time, to our knowledge, was the original Young Thailand, the Rivoli and theHe says,"The reception to the new Asian dishes was tentative at first but over time has been enthusiastically embraced.
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