An anti-poverty group is staging protests against Toronto’s fine diners at the new pop-up restaurant experience Dinner With A View, which allows its guests to enjoy a luxury three-course meal while seated in a transparent dome with a 360-degree view.
The dining room is within sight of a homeless encampment.
“Toronto, like most cities, is in the midst of a housing crisis,” an organizer Yogi Acharya told the Washington Post. “There are people who are homeless who have nowhere else to go but under a highway. The brazenness of putting on meals like that not far from where people were hungry and cold all winter was jarring, and we believed it demanded a protest.”
The group, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty has labeled the restaurant “Dinner With A View — of the Rich.”
“Homes Not Domes” and “Evict the Rich,” are just a few of the signs held by protesters angry that this fine dining experience would be placed under an overpass that the homeless, just a mile away, had been evicted from recently.
The luxury dome experience costs a minimum of $550, Canadian, for a group of four people to enjoy a menu of Italian, French, and Mexican-inspired food.
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