Coppi Ristorante

“We do not play around with Italian food,” says Alex Scotto di Luzio, manager at Coppi Ristorante. “We stick to the authentic recipes. If it isn’t broken, why fix it?”

With even the tomatoes sourced from Italy for the best-tasting sauces, the restaurant is like a little bit of the Mediterranean on Yonge Street. “We cover all regions of the country and source loads of ingredients from Italy,” notes Alex. This includes truffles from the Piedmont region, an annual delicacy that Coppi Ristorante has been treating its customers to since the mid 90s, unique for the time. Back then, Alex would go to Italy to broker a deal with a local truffles forager for a supply during the last months of the year. Now there are suppliers to do the job, but the tradition of offering a unique truffle menu continues to this day.