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Salt Chuck
Listed in Fashion Stores Salt Chuck is a style destination specializing in effortless cool, casual (without being sloppy) men's apparel — and specifically underwear. Rather than boring "tighty...
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Roll Play Cafe
Listed in Cafes Roll Play Cafe opened in September just north of Yonge and Dundas, offering a selection of board games to play while enjoying a coffee, quick snack, or your next meal. Walking up a...
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Gourmet Gringos
Listed in Restaurants Gourmet Gringos, Toronto's favourite mobile taqueria (voted AwesTRUCK's People's Choice 2013), has a new fixed address on Bathurst south of St. Clair. It's a cheerful 24-seat...
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Olde Towne Bistro & Oyster Bar
Listed in Restaurants Olde Towne Bistro & Oyster Bar is now open in place of Lucien on Wellington St. across from the Flatiron building. Management remains the same, the interior hardly touched,...
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Empire Espresso
Listed in Cafes Empire Espresso has one of the prettiest espresso machines I've ever seen. The La Marzocco machine at College Street's newest coffee shop is covered with a custom silkscreen adhesive...
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Hi-Lo Bar
Listed in Bars Hi-Lo Bar is a new bar in Riverside in the space that PicNic at Home used to occupy. As of late, when I go out on the town, I sometimes have trouble coordinating what type of night I...
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Hudson Kitchen
Listed in Restaurants Hudson Kitchen is a month-old eatery on Dundas West in a newly combined space that formerly housed the Palmerston Cafe, Jamie Kennedy's Provenance and the One 800 Gallery. The...
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The Espresso Room
Listed in Cafes The Espresso Room, a new cafe in the Lawrence and Yonge area, screams "Italia!" to me. It's a cafe with good design, clean lines-rich, and yet austere. Adding to overall Italian cafe...
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The Dock Ellis
Listed in Bars The Dock Ellis launched this week at Dundas and Dovercourt, in a neighbourhood already populated with an abundance of watering holes. Amidst a glut of hip joints full of craft cocktails...
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Hero Heroine
Listed in Fashion Stores Hero Heroine, in some ways, is exactly what you'd expect a high-end salon to look like: An ultra-modern, all-white space, with everything new and gleaming. But the mood in the...
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Lost & Found (Ossington)
Listed in Fashion Stores Lost & Found on Ossington is version 2.0 of their now-closed boutique on Dundas West. The menswear/coffee shop hybrid is just as down-to-earth as before - white walls,...
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Hub Coffee House (Dovercourt)
Listed in Cafes Hub Coffee House on Dovercourt is what you get when you've cornered the market in a given neighbourhood. This just opened, second location to the Hub Coffee House and Locavorium on...
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Seventeen Eighteen
Listed in Bars Seventeen Eighteen is the product of former Go Lounge owners Samantha Lerner and Alisa Sadler and Black Pug DMK owner and designer Daisuke Ito. They've transformed the old board game...
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Soop Soop
Listed in Fashion Stores Soop Soop may be housed in a former grocery store but if you visit this vintage clothing shop on Gladstone near Dundas don't expect nutritious broth. When founder Christina...
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CrossFit Metric
Listed in Fitness Clubs CrossFit Metric is a new CrossFit gym and wellness centre on Mt. Pleasant just south of Eglinton. Given that CrossFit gyms tend to be very bare bones, old-school gymnasium-type...
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Times Square Diner
Listed in Restaurants Times Square Diner may not exactly remind you of the famous NYC attraction, but it's full of retro charm. It's dimly lit, rather messy, and teeming with bygone relics like...
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Tea Dot Coffee
Listed in Cafes Tea Dot Coffee, a new indie coffee shop on College Street just past Spadina, is the latest place for a coffee fuel-up on near the University of Toronto. Having just opened the cafe,...
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Touhenboku Ramen
Listed in Restaurants Touhenboku Ramen might look like any other ramen shop in Toronto. But look closer and you'll see a world of difference. To begin, all chopsticks, ramen spoons and porcelain...
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Al Premium
Listed in Grocery Stores Al Premium Food Mart is the love-child of a WalMart Supercentre and a United Colors of Benetton ad. It's one of the only large-scale supermarkets (emphasis on the SUPER) in...
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Sandoozles Smokehouse & Pub
Listed in Restaurants Sandoozles Smokehouse & Pub opened this week on Mount Pleasant south of Eglinton. Owners and first time restaurateurs Josh Molot and Timon Beck both originally hail from...
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