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Blossom Lounge
Listed in Fashion Stores Blossom Lounge opened around two months ago, and is rather hard to spot on a simple meander through the Distillery District's cobblestone streets, with virtually no streetside...
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Slider Revolution
Listed in Restaurants Slider Revolution, frontrunners of the micro-sandwich frontier, opened a few months ago and have been busy queuing up a veritable carousel of sliders for the Pape-Danforth...
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West End Comics
Listed in Bookstores West End Comics opened up just before the Christmas holidays in the heart of Parkdale. Built into and around an old chiropractor's office, it's an easy to find and easy to enter...
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2Cats Cocktail Lounge
Listed in Bars 2Cats is a cocktail lounge located on King West, and equidistance between For Your Eyes Only and The One that Got Away World Famous Fish House, resulting in a Bermuda Triangle of sexual...
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Trio Ristorante Pizzeria
Listed in Restaurants Trio Ristorante Pizzeria is a rather unassuming galley-style restaurant in the Yonge and Lawrence area. While unassuming can sometimes mean a hidden gem, other times it's just...
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Porzia
Listed in Restaurants Porzia is now open in Parkdale. Well-publicized as the final entry to make Parkdale's recent moratorium cut-off, Basilio Pesce (of Biff's, Bymark, and Canoe), is quick to point...
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El Almacen (Dupont)
Listed in Cafes El Almacen on Dupont is part yerba mate cafe, part general store. Like the original location in West Queen West, the central food features here include homemade alfajores, empanadas,...
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Joe Rockhead's
Listed in Fitness Clubs Joe Rockhead's, established in 1990, was Canada's first indoor rock climbing gym, and recently celebrated 20 years at its current Liberty Village location. Born out of the...
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Junction Craft Brewing
Listed in Grocery Stores Junction Craft Brewing opened its retail store and microbrewery last December, but had already been making beer at Wellington Brewery for about a year prior to setting up shop...
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Nu Bugel
Listed in Baked Goods Nu Bugel opened its doors this week after months of delays, finally bringing one of my favourite breakfast foods to Kensington Market. Admittedly, I am a bit of a bagel...
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The Emerson
Listed in Restaurants The Emerson recently opened in Bloordale Village, lending ever more credence to the notion that this neighbourhood is on the upswing, particularly with the Whippoorwill opening...
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FitWall Toronto
Listed in Fitness Clubs FitWall Toronto is the latest gym to offer (you guessed it) FitWall, which is one of the latest fitness trends to hit Toronto, but you probably haven't heard of it yet. It's...
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Playa Cabana Cantina
Listed in Restaurants Playa Cabana Cantina, the younger, cooler cousin of the the original location opened recently in the Junction and in some sense is a far cry from its family member. While the...
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Aragvi Restaurant
Listed in Restaurants Aragvi is one of only a few Toronto restaurants serving authentic Georgian cuisine. I'd managed to recruit a team of five to brave the cold in order to sample the food that I was...
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Yogathletix
Listed in Fitness Clubs Yogathletix is a newly-opened fitness studio on Queen Street, in Leslieville. The studio bills itself as "an intimate, non-intimidating yoga and fitness studio offering various...
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Hitch
Listed in Bars Hitch is now open near Queen and Leslie. I visited the bar on a quiet Monday evening. Because the bar is so new, I couldn't find any information about it online (other than the address)...
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Scratch Fresh Foods
Listed in Restaurants Scratch Fresh Foods is in an absolutely abysmal location. Unless you live near Glencairn subway, you likely wouldn't know about it; but you should. "Fresh" doesn't only apply to...
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The Burgernator
Listed in Restaurants The Burgernator has been open for less than a week in Kensington Market (in the former home of Big Chubby Burger), but it's fairly easy to spot; from the logo, to the sandwich...
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Gravitate Studio
Listed in Fitness Clubs Gravitate Studio is located in a commercial strip of Avenue Road between Wilson and Lawrence, and the space--on a second floor above ground level stores--is surprisingly modest...
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Aum Center Yoga
Listed in Fitness Clubs Aum Center Yoga has taken over Krudar Muay Thai's former location, and they're filling it with the power of deep breathing-based exercise, and joules, too (more on what those...
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