CANADA. SSP Canada has opened three new restaurants – OBISPO, Balzac’s Coffee Roasters and Market@416 – at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport. They are situated in the newly-designed airport lounges developed by Nieuport Aviation Infrastructure Partners.
Each features menus that showcase local flavours and dishes reflective of the region.
SSP Canada worked with Toronto-based chef Grant van Gameren to create the menu and direction for OBISPO, which offers takeaway meals. The collaboration led to the development of a menu of hot sandwiches, flatbreads, antipasto dishes and salads.
Van Gameren said: “We created a menu that was as quick and convenient as the airport itself. There is something for everyone, with a focus on fresh, delicious food that can be prepared and consumed quickly and that is portable enough to be taken on your flight.”
Market@416 offers a selection of dishes including BBQ wings, pot stickers, “Street Tacos”, Montreal beef sandwiches, a “BBQ Carnita Torta”, “haute dawgs”, as well as breakfast items such as a Downtown Benedict, Calabrese Flatbread and Steel Cut Oatmeal. Passengers can buy beer on draft, in bottles or cans, and choose from a selection of wines.
Balzac’s Coffee Roasters, which already has 13 locations in and around Toronto, delivers coffee roasted in Ancaster, Ontario, and milk sourced from regional dairies. It also offers a variety of sweet and savoury breakfast items, including a selection of breakfast paninis and sandwiches and salads.
SSP Canada Executive Vice President Pat Murray said: “We are honoured to partner with the Toronto City team to build a fresh, new portfolio of brands tailored to the passenger.”
Nieuport Aviation Infrastructure Partners Chief Executive Neil Pakey commented: “As part of Nieuport Aviation’s terminal upgrade project to add space and comfort to the lounges at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, we now also have locally-inspired restaurant bars that will further enhance our passengers’ travel experience.
“Choice and selection in our airport’s food and drink menus will bring tremendous value to the 2.8 million passengers who choose our airport for its efficiency, location, convenience and service, which is why we are so pleased to have made these investments and partnerships.”
