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I’ve called Toronto home for the past three years and sometimes I write about it. Past posts include everything from the horrors of TTC rush hour commutes to my favourite restaurants and hardware stores.
After perennially-packed Terroni moved out in late 2010, Divino moved in in early 2011. But the newcomer has never managed to fill Terroni’s very large shoes and whenever I go there — mostly to pick up takeout — I wonder how much longer Divino can hang on. Divino definitely has some good dishes — the [...]
The Monk’s Table is one of those places where you get the feeling that everyone is trying very hard to be a regular, even if they’ve only really been here two or three times before. In theory, the Monk’s Table should be great. The food is supposed to be way better than the average pub [...]
Yonge and St. Clair is way overpopulated with sushi joints and Italian restaurants. We desperately need a diner or a Lady Marmalade or a Rushton, but it seems we’re not indy enough or the rents are too high or both, which means, instead, we got Harry’s Social Kitchen. Maybe I’m bitter because I had high [...]
Call me old fashioned, but when a burger, fries and shake get up into the $20 range, I expect either a little bit of atmosphere or an extraordinary eating experience. Given that Holy Chuck, the new(ish) burger joint at Yonge and St. Clair is a classic flourescent-lit, order-at-the-cash-and-eat-in-an-uncomfortable-chair-at-a-table-that-may-or-may-not-have-been-wiped-clean type of place, the onus was on [...]
My Tailor Alterations and Dry Cleaning (mysteriously listed in the phone book as My Taylor) is hands down the best and the cheapest in the neighbourhood. The epitome of a Mom and Pop shop, they scrutinize every item you take in and will phone you up if there’s anything that could possibly go wrong. “Pop” [...]
I’m from Montreal so I don’t kid around when it comes to croissants. When I say Xococava’s are the best, that means they are absolutely, undeniably the best, beating Patachou hands down for both butteriness and flakiness. The only drawback is that Cava, first and foremost a chocolatier, doesn’t open until 10 a.m. The other [...]
You don’t go to Wylie’s for the decor. You go for a pint and a curry — a Thai curry. Because, go figure, this place is some kind of strange hybrid of English pub and Thai / Malaysian restaurant. But wait, it gets even more complicated. Wylie’s also does Indian curries, and some of those [...]
So what if a huge Canadian Tire is just a kilometre down the street. Size doesn’t matter when you’re almost always out of what I want, be it a certain size of nuts and bolts or doggie poop bags. Not to mention the fact that it’s next to impossible to find someone to help you [...]
We usually get the Giuseppe and/or Dante, both white pizzas, to take out, as eating in causes the bill to add up really fast. While the pizzas are not cheap, they are excellent quality so worth the splurge. Alas, not everything on the menu offers great value. We’ve been really disappointed by the Charcuterie plate, [...]
Can we talk about the sales tax? I finally bought my first Groupon today. I’d been meaning to try it out for months, but the time had finally come when I saw a Groupon Now!Deal for a neighbourhood restaurant that I’d been vaguely curious about. This was a Groupon Now! Deal I’d only just learned [...]
