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The Castle Supper Notebook A dietitian's field notes on the Dufferin Street castle banquet

• Dietitian’s notes  • Toronto

What is actually on the plate at the Dufferin Street castle banquet

Eight years catering weddings and corporate dinners on the Exhibition grounds. I kept a notebook when I visited the castle banquet as a guest. These are those notes, cleaned up: menu format, kitchen limits, kid food, allergies, what a drink actually costs, and when a sachet of wipes earns its luggage spot.

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A food-first look at a dinner-tournament evening

The Dufferin castle sells a banquet. Operator pages describe the show. This guide describes the food: the shape of the courses, the pace between fights, the one-handed service, what a nut-allergy or a dairy swap looks like in a kitchen that is plating hundreds of covers during a joust, and why the kids plate works for a six-year-old but might not for a three-year-old.

I am a registered dietitian. I have run menus at Enercare, Casa Loma, and the Carlu. The castle’s kitchen is a specific problem — a high-volume plated service in the middle of a live tournament — and if you understand that constraint, you set your expectations correctly before you sit down.

Everything that follows is based on my own visits as a paying guest, kitchen conversation at other banquet venues, and public statements the operator has made about their food programme. Confirm anything time-sensitive with the operator before you go.