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Ballet
Listed in Bars Ballet is an event venue/lounge/nightclub on Ossington located in the space where Jezebel used to be. Like Jezebel, Ballet features burlesque and other types of performance while...
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Black Flower Vintage
Listed in Fashion Stores Black Flower Vintage is injecting some Montreal-style fabulousness to Dundas and Ossington. Owner Sacha Laberge, a Montreal import, is operating a vintage boutique that's...
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The Libertine
Listed in Restaurants The Libertine is the new underground speakeasy-style lounge now operating from under a blinking tarot reader sign on Dundas West at Rusholme. Co-owned by Byron Dill and Forrest...
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DuWest Vintage
Listed in Fashion Stores DuWest Vintage has a vibe that makes you feel like you're walking onto the set of a film. The shop is on the still-kind-of-quiet stretch of Dundas West near Brock, and lovely...
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Trinity Taverna
Listed in Restaurants Trinity Taverna is now open in the east end and the patio boasts a killer view of Toronto's sandy Woodbine Beach. The restaurant offers 350 al fresco seats alone and then there's...
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Hastings Barber Shop
Listed in Fashion Stores Hastings Barber Shop has a small stack of '70s era Playboy magazines on the windowsill, and when you look up, the next thing you notice is two large taxidermied deer heads on...
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Cafe Nikoletta
Listed in Cafes Cafe Nikoletta is a new cafe in East York that looks like it was pulled from one of those design blogs flouncily showing off and advocating for stark all-white interiors. In a good...
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Moonbean Cafe
Listed in Cafes Moonbean Cafe has been a beacon of caffeinated hope in Kensington Market for 18 years, and while it's changed with the times, owner Alan Erdstein has always kept coffee as the root of...
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Crews & Tangos
Listed in Bars Crews & Tangos is where I go when I need to dance my heart out. The club is a nightlife staple in The Village, set up in an old two-storey Victorian house that's been gutted to make...
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Soho Bistro
Listed in Restaurants Soho Bistro has long been a fixture at the corner of Yonge and Woburn (north of Lawrence). And while the locals have mixed views and generally pan the place for their dinner...
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Home of the Brave
Listed in Restaurants Home of the Brave is now open on King West, heralding the sophomore effort from Andrew Richmond, the street food hustler come art dealer, TUM alum, and owner of College Street...
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Casa Acoreana Cafe
Listed in Cafes Casa Acoreana has lived many lives in the half century it's spent on the corner of Augusta and Baldwin. The cafe is now known as one of the Market's staple coffee shops, but that...
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Lot St.
Listed in Restaurants Lot St. is a Canadian restaurant, or so I'm told, but you won't find any peameal bacon here. Canadian food, at least to owner Tenny Bhutia, is an eclectic blend of cuisine from...
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mon K Patisserie
Listed in Baked Goods mon K Patisserie offers baked treats in a style not often found in Toronto. The bakery was inspired by French cuisine, but the goods have a Japanese flair added on by the husband...
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Kingpin's Hideaway
Listed in Fashion Stores Kingpin's Hideaway falls nothing short of its name. The vintage menswear boutique is tucked away in a small space three storeys high, with only a sandwich board to verify its...
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Gourmeats
Listed in Grocery Stores Gourmeats is now open on Dundas West, helping to solve that nightly dilemma: what's for dinner? The month old butcher is family owned and operated by Allan and Branka Suleman,...
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S4C Shop
Listed in Fashion Stores S4C Shop, the newest graphic tee-riddled pop-up shop in West Queen West, is all about good vibes. Not only are all the storekeepers as sweet as they come, the brand itself --...
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The Living Room
Listed in Restaurants The Living Room (not to be confused as I did, with the now shuttered Living Well, formerly home to weekly dirty bingo) is now open inside the Windsor Arms Hotel. Without any...
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The Grind
Listed in Cafes The Grind is a somewhat ideally, somewhat mysteriously located coffee shop decorated like an eccentric French lady's salon/boudoir. It's a wholly unexpected discovery, as it's located...
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Millie Creperie
Listed in Restaurants Millie Creperie has recently opened in Kensington Market. As is explained to us early in our visit, the difference between Japanese and French crepes is a combination of...
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