guest leaning back over plate of flaming cheese in warmly lit room.jpg

maggie behind the bar webpage front cover.png

Eat Together

guest leaning back over a snack of flaming cheese on table in sexily-lit room

SCROLL DOWN

Eat Together

guest leaning back over a snack of flaming cheese on table in sexily-lit room

416 SNACK BAR is a bar about Toronto. What does that mean? It's really quite simple: with each snack we serve, we aim to represent the quality and diversity that characterizes this beautiful city. Statistically, it's the most ethnically abundant urban place on the planet, with almost 49% of our population being foreign-born and no one group dominating this half of our friends and neighbours. The result: proprietors Dave Stewart and Adrian Ravinsky grew up trying to find the city's best Jamaican beef patty, the best margarita pizza, the best souvla - and aim to bring that type of snack to your face.

Over the last decade, things have changed a lot in Toronto, and definitely for the better. So we celebrate that every day at 416.

It's been said that our lack of a distinct regional cuisine means that Toronto doesn't have it's own culture - we strongly disagree. Our culture is a culture of many cultures, living happily together - respectfully distinct and highly delicious. Come stuff your face and see what we mean.

hand-chopped steak tartare on forno cultura sour dough

server holding plate of korean fried chicken

greek salad in romaine lettuce cups on a blue and white plate

Check the current snacklist

the team

dusty gallagher

EXECUTIVE CHEF

The man in charge of the guys in charge of deliciousness is Dustin A. Gallagher, Esquire. Enthusiastic smiler, gleeful taster of everything and proud family man, his background stems back to working at Susur in its prime. Stints on Top Chef Canada and Iron Chef America got him some shine but his food unquestionably speaks for itself. You'll never catch him side-plating a dish or unnecessarily squiggling a sauce - his style is straight-forward crunch-to-squish ratio-rooted.

TAYLOR LACKIE

MANAGER OF OPERATIONS

Tay is the guy in charge of making sure hospitality is extended, cocktails are cold, lights are warm and napkins are folded when you're up to pee - all of the stuff that keeps the front humming. 416 is all about offering an elevated level of service in what looks like a dive bar - and this guy is in charge of making that happen. His working experience is all 416, all day - having been with us almost since the beginning - he started as a busser in 2012 and has only crushed every day he’s worked since.