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Wood-Fired Shared Plates at Nightingale
Chef Hawksworth's two-storey heritage hall for wood-fired pizza, buttermilk fried chicken, and the share-everything format that actually works.
Foodie Experiences
Chef Hawksworth's two-storey heritage hall for wood-fired pizza, buttermilk fried chicken, and the share-everything format that actually works.
Nightingale is a two-storey heritage hall on West Hastings built around a wood-fired oven and the very sound premise that ordering everything and splitting it is, in fact, the correct approach. Chef David Hawksworth's team put together a menu of Neapolitan-style pizzas, modern Canadian vegetable plates, crudo, pasta, and the buttermilk fried chicken that regulars bring up unprompted weeks later. The room is buzzy and gorgeous, the lighting is forgiving, and the share-everything format strips away first-date awkwardness with surgical efficiency: you bond over what to order and steal off each other's plates before you've remembered to be nervous. Nearly 4,000 reviews at 4.5 suggests this is not a fluke. Sit near the open kitchen, order the fried chicken, and let the menu carry the conversation until you no longer need it to.
