What a Jerk comes in from the cold, now indoors

 What a Jerk is warm and friendly and now indoors




By Stephen Weir
The message I received early last week brought a smile to my face while the email quickly getting to the point. Al "Allos" Foster, the pan-playing owner of the What A Jerk food truck, has parked his mobile kitchen for the winter and moved his act indoors to Etobicoke.
His new sit-down spot, What a Jerk Restaurant, in Long Branch, near Lakeshore and 29th Street, has been open for over a month, giving Foster and his team the luxury of cooking indoors during this bitterly cold January.
“So I did a thing…” he wrote. “I have been operating my own mobile food business called What A Jerk! since 2018 (how time flies!). I’m now happy to inform you that I have expanded the brand to include a brick-and-mortar restaurant in Etobicoke. What A Jerk Restaurant is now open for business at 3303 Lake Shore Blvd West.”
The restaurant offers it all: takeout, dine-in, home delivery, and a full Caribbean menu. “Yes,” Foster told me, “we are having live entertainment on Fridays and Saturdays.”
And to answer the second-most-asked question: Yes, the What A Jerk food truck will be back on the road when winter is over. The truck has a large following at Toronto outdoor events and on popular street scenes.


As for the number-one question? “Are you still with Pan Fantasy, Mr. Foster?” For the past 21 years, Foster has been the music arranger for Canada’s most successful steel drum band, earning his reputation as one of Toronto’s most respected young arrangers. “Of course,” he emphatically said on Wednesday. “It’s busy, busy, but I am with Pan Fantasy forever.”

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