"If you're looking for authentic Italian pastas prepared with recipes passed down for generations, check this place out. Famiglia Baldessare is a small-scale factory for handmade pastas, and includes a number of Toronto's favorite restaurants as clients—except from noon to 2 p.m. on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays when the shop opens a small lunch counter where pasta fanatics line up to indulge in the city's best handmade pastas. This lunch counter is something of a mirage that pops out of an otherwise industrial setting. It offers a rotating menu, usually with a shape of the day prepared in two different ways—such as cavatelli with broccoli rabe and pecorino, or cavatelli with homemade sausage—as well as a burrata starter, a basic salad and perhaps a crudo. Waiting in line for a pasta lunch here is a rite of passage in the city's foodie scene, and an unmissable experience that's absolutely worth the wait." - Todd Plummer
