When Monique Guffens moved to Toronto from the Netherlands in 2010, she dreamed of opening her own restaurant. After working in restaurants in the St. Lawrence market area, in 2016 she finally got the chance to live her dream when she opened Real Mo-Mo’s. “I always wanted to own my own restaurant,” says Monique. “I didn’t really think it would happen, but you put your head to something and there you go.”
When planning the menu for her new venture, Monique knew Real Mo-Mo’s had to be based on the food she knew growing up. “I’m originally from Holland, and there was not a lot of Dutch food in Toronto,” she says. “So I thought it would be fun to get people in Toronto, with all this multiculturalism, into another culture here.”
