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Hogtown Smoke
Listed in Restaurants Hogtown Smoke has been open in the Beach(es) for less than a month, and already the food truck's brick and mortar offspring is on fire. Take-away orders start rolling in via...
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McCormick Imports
Listed in Design Stores McCormick Imports is an enclave of Wee Britainnia on Danforth East. You've heard of Mom and Pop shops? Well, here's a Mom and Daughter shop. As if the Peter Rabbit tea set...
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Squint Eyewear
Listed in Fashion Stores Squint Eyewear is making inroads into midtown Toronto after a decade of supplying Oakville residents with fashion-forward, high-end eyewear. The second store in the Squint...
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Bolt Fresh Bar
Listed in Restaurants Bolt Fresh Bar recently opened just steps from The Drake Hotel and already their smoothie line-up is near flawless in terms of flavours and consistency. From my first sip of the...
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Warung Kampung
Listed in Restaurants Warung Kampung seems to encapsulate the Indonesian food scene in Toronto perfectly. Indonesian cuisine in general is extremely hard to find in our fair city (short of home-based...
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Len
Listed in Design Stores Len: Democratic Purveyors of Fine Art & Beautiful Things is a very small shop for such a long name. Housed in a shallow storefront a stone's throw from Coxwell Station, the...
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Stay Cafeteria
Listed in Restaurants Stay Cafeteria, an Asian fusion restaurant, opened earlier this month at 388 Spadina (between Baldwin and Nassau). First time owners Tao Zhang and Jianing Hu wanted to bring many...
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Barrio Coreano
Listed in Restaurants Barrio Coreano is the fourth and latest addition to the Playa Cabana family of restaurants. As the name suggests, this new 75-seat concept is a mix of Mexican and Korean...
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Pizzeria Via Mercanti (Elm St.)
Listed in Restaurants Pizzeria Via Mercanti, the popular Neapolitan pizzeria in Kensington Market, has expanded less than 2 km east of the original. Now open in the heart of the hospital district at...
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Play De Record
Listed in Services Play De Record, if nothing else, has proven itself. Situated right beside Zanzibar Tavern on Yonge St., this long yet slim shop has endured the test of time and watched ample local...
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Toma Burger Addiction
Listed in Restaurants Toma Burger Addiction is a new burger joint with a French twist. After years of running La Reef, a seaside restaurant in Southern France, Chef Thomas Sedille and his soon-to-be...
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What the Vintage
Listed in Design Stores What The Vintage is Scarborough's go-to spot for vintage and mid-century modern furniture. The Coronation Dr. showroom is a vintage lover's dream - a stockroom overflowing with...
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P&L Burger
Listed in Restaurants P&L Burger, the new burger shop offshoot of Parts & Labour, already claimed a win at the recent CMT Burger Wars, and now after only a month of construction has...
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Fonda Lola
Listed in Restaurants Fonda Lola opened last week on West Queen West, after gaining a cult following with pop-up appearances (including the world's largest tequila tasting, where they served up 1400...
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Joe's Wings and Burgers
Listed in Restaurants Joe's Wings and Burgers is a delightful little mom and pop shop that would fit in comfortably in any part of the city, though it seems perfectly at home on the East Danforth....
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Wind Up Bird Cafe
Listed in Restaurants Wind Up Bird Cafe is named after a Murakami book and aspires to be just as quirky and whimsical. Opened by serial restaurateur and award winning fiction writer, Sang Kim...
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Rock 'n' Horse Saloon
Listed in Bars The Rock 'n' Horse Saloon opens today in the former London Tap House site on Adelaide St. West. Going head to head with Boots & Bourbon in the east end to draw the most cowboy boots...
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Duke's Refresher + Bar
Listed in Restaurants Duke's Refresher + Bar is the first Toronto outpost of the Muskoka-based bastion of fun, a place that boasts an apologetically brash attitude towards kicking back and letting...
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The Healthy Road
Listed in Grocery Stores The Healthy Road is a new health food and supplement store on King East surrounded by the burgeoning Corktown condo scene. The four owners have been hard at work morphing the...
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Opticianado
Listed in Fashion Stores Opticianado aims to provide a wide selection of hard-to-find, eye-catching glasses, with customer service geared toward finding the perfect-fitting frame for every face. While...
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