Most restaurants send you home with leftovers; One Fine Food sends you home with the groceries. The Peterborough address on Erskine Avenue is an Italian dining room with a wood-fired oven and an open kitchen, and it is also a butcher counter, a bakery, a deli, a produce stand, a pantry and a prepared-foods case, all under one roof. A diner can order arancini and a pizza, then walk out with a cut of meat for tomorrow and a loaf for the morning. That breadth is the point: it answers a weeknight dinner, a Sunday outing and the week's shopping at the same address, which is why it reads less like a trattoria than like a neighbourhood food hub built around one kitchen.
The menu runs Italian and deep. Antipasti set the tone, and the arancini are the strongest first bite — crisp Sicilian risotto balls stuffed with roasted red peppers, smoked bacon, fior di latte and parmigiano reggiano, served with marinara. The board widens from there: house-made ricotta with honey and pistachio, burrata with fire-roasted cherry tomatoes and aged balsamic, a salumi and formaggi board, P.E.I. mussels steamed in white wine, garlic and fennel. The wood-fired oven carries the clearest identity — the Fungi Pizza layers garlic oil, mozzarella, brie, mushrooms, caramelized onions and truffle powder, while The One Pizza piles on house-made Italian sausage, Genoa salami, chilies, rosemary and honey. Pasta holds its own: potato gnocchi with prosciutto, peas, pistachios and sage; a mushroom risotto built on carnaroli rice and porcini; a seafood bucatini tossed with scallops, mussels and shrimp. Bigger appetites get chicken parmigiana over fettuccine alfredo and crab-and-mascarpone ravioli in a sherry rose sauce.
One Fine Food combines restaurant, bakery, cafe, butcher, deli, pantry, produce and prepared-food counters in a single Peterborough destination.
The dining room leans on an open kitchen and wood-fired oven, with pizzas such as Fungi Pizza, The One Pizza and Margherita carrying the clearest menu identity.
The Sunday brunch menu has specific dishes worth planning around, especially Eggs on Toast, One Sourdough French Toast and One Fine Fritatta.
Sunday brunch is a real reason to plan around One Fine Food, with a focused menu that includes Eggs on Toast, French toast, two Benedicts and a wood-fired frittata. It gives the market-bakery identity a daytime anchor instead of leaving brunch as an afterthought.
Groups get several easy ways to order together: antipasti, salads, wood-fired pizza, pasta, mains and dessert all sit on the same menu. The market setting also gives mixed-age parties something to browse before or after the meal.
The shop side gives One Fine Food more ingredient credibility than a typical dining room: butcher, seafood, produce, bakery, deli and pantry counters all sit beside the restaurant. That makes the local-food promise feel tangible to diners.
The Italian-market format is the draw: eat in the dining room, watch the open kitchen and wood-fired oven, then move through bakery, butcher, deli and pantry counters. It feels closer to a food hall built around one kitchen than a standard trattoria.
Families can stay flexible here: pizza, pasta, sandwiches, brunch plates, desserts and market browsing cover a wider set of tastes than a narrow fine-dining format. The room can be polished without making the meal feel too formal.
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