When the owners of one of Toronto’s most elegant dining rooms opened their first restaurant together, they didn’t have a chef.
“We started with nothing,” Margi Pagliaro said about Barolo, the first restaurant she opened with her husband Michael back in 1987.“I used to go to the store 100 times a day because we had no money. But before we had no money. We had no chef. Nothing.”
At the time, they could only afford to stock their bar with mickey bottles of liquor and some days, they ran out of bread. “But I couldn't say no to anybody. So I would run to the liquor store 50 times a day,” Margi said. “It was the best [review] ever. And then after her it was Sara Waxman. Sara Waxman said that even if we opened in the middle of the lake, people would swim to come to us,” Margi said. , which they run with their daughter Monica, the notion that they once had to stock their bar with mickey bottles is hard to believe.
But even still, Margi’s liquor store runs are not part of the past. At 63, she’s still floating from table to table until 2 a.m. like a “social butterfly,” as her daughter puts it. “I know their family, who got married, who got divorced, who got a grandchild,” Margi said.“If a customer wants a certain bottle of wine, and we don't have it. Next time they come, we'll have it,” Monica said.
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