About Us
About
The sort-of secret: Taudo’s, a Jamaican seafood restaurant in Rexdale. In Jamaica, there’s a saying that goes, “Every mickle mek a muckle.” It means that many small efforts can make up one large effort, and that’s the ethos that drives Taudo’s. Having opened up shop mere months before the pandemic, chef-owner Al Gordon knows first-hand the power of a collective. “In the beginning, it was the pandemic. That’s all I’ve been knowing. We’re still navigating it, and I don’t think we recovered as yet, but slowly we’re getting there,” he says.
After working at a friend’s restaurant, Gordon decided to take a chance and open his own. He named it Taudo’s, his childhood nickname, and hasn’t looked back since. Despite the turbulence of the past couple of years, Gordon has continued to cook up seafood exactly how he learned to make it while growing up in Rocky Point, a small coastal town in Jamaica’s Clarendon parish.
His menu includes typical Jamaican fare. “We got oxtail. We have goat, fried chicken, jerk chicken, curry chicken, stew chicken. We have ackee and saltfish. We have veggie dishes, we have callaloo. Soups—whether it’s fish, chicken or conch—are really good sellers, especially the fish and conch soup.
The restaurant is known for its seafood recipes, largely inspired by Gordon’s boyhood adventures back in Jamaica.
The energy of Jamaica is very much present inside the small dining room as streams of smiling customers—all greeting one another in patois—come in and out. With Taudo’s, Gordon has brought a piece of Rocky Point to Toronto.
Taudo’s, 50A Rexdale Blvd., 416-887-6760, @taudosrestaurant
DINE IN ☼ TAKE OUT ☼ DELIVERY ☼ CATERING
