Spice City Toronto: Somali Cuisine Smothers the Stereotypes

Spice City Toronto: Somali Cuisine Smothers the Stereotypes

Toronto's Somali community has been having a difficult time in the press lately, but a Rexdale restaurant provides an eloquent rebuttal.

If your only information about Toronto’s Somali population comes from the news media, you could easily come to believe that the community is comprised entirely of drug-dealing, gun-toting thugs. A visit to Dabagoye, a Somali restaurant located a few streets over from the infamous Rexdale house where Rob Ford is believed to have posed in a photo with alleged gangsters, reveals another side to this 80,000-strong contingent of Torontonians.