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Listed in Baked Goods Home is a new bake shop and ice cream spot that opened in Bloordale earlier this summer. Bakerbots co-owner and Home full-owner Christopher Stopa (of "lost Radiohead song" fame)...
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Listed in Restaurants El Furniture Warehouse in the Annex is the tenth outpost of this Canadawide purveyor of cheap eats, where every item on the menu is priced at just $4.95. Originally from...
View ArticleBake Them Pretty
Listed in Baked Goods Bake Them Pretty takes the total bakery count on Harbord Street up to four, having opened just a few days before Almond Butterfly a few doors down. What used to be Chilango...
View ArticlePai
Listed in Restaurants Pai is the latest restaurant from Nuit and Jeff Regular, the duo also behind Sabai Sabai and Sukhothai, who named their newest spot after a town in northern Thailand. Located a...
View ArticleBacon Nation
Listed in Restaurants Bacon Nation. That's it. That's the review. That name alone should be enough to tell you if this is the type of establishment you would like to patronize. Any additional...
View ArticleBlack Devil MMA
Listed in Fitness Clubs Black Devil MMA relocated a year ago to its current location on Bloor Street, just west of Bathurst, after outgrowing its first home just slightly to the east. Owner and head...
View ArticleClint Roenisch (St. Helens)
Listed in Galleries Clint Roenisch's comforting neon sign may have disappeared from 944 Queen Street West after a-decade of light, but it's not gone forever, just re-installed somewhere new, a space...
View ArticleBlack Irish Whiskey Bar & Oyster Saloon
Listed in Restaurants Black Irish Whiskey Bar & Oyster Saloon is an working man's canteen situated at the corner of Queen and Sherbourne. Despite being just a block from the newly minted food...
View ArticleCanadian School of Lutherie
Listed in Services Canadian School of Lutherie is a place you'll probably never come across, unless you're intentionally looking for it - and even if you do have the address, it's still a challenge to...
View ArticleRaw Chemist Juice Bar
Listed in Restaurants The Raw Chemist Juice Bar recently set up its first shop in the Junction, and judging by the comments from locals who stop in while I'm there, it's a welcome addition to the...
View ArticleSorella Toronto
Listed in Restaurants Sorella Toronto in the Junction keeps things super simple - the shop's main purpose is to offer up traditional, homemade, Italian sausages. Owner Mario Garisto makes them from...
View ArticleKadbanu
Listed in Restaurants Kadbanu is a Persian cafe and takeout counter occupying a corner at Dundas and Markham. The Mohyeddin family, Salome, Amir and Samira, opened the store as an extension of the...
View ArticleGreek Street
Listed in Restaurants Greek Street is a compact lunch counter on College and as its name suggests, it specializes in fast, affordable Greek street foods. My preconceived notion assumes this means...
View ArticleShangri-La Toronto
Listed in Hotels The Shangri-La Hotel Toronto has been open on University near Adelaide since September 2012, instantly reshaping Toronto's soaring skyline with a prominent 702 foot stretch, making it...
View ArticleWiseys Pies and Bakehouse
Listed in Baked Goods Wiseys Pies and Bakehouse, the newly opened meat pie shop at Eglinton and Laird, is one of those places that you step into and immediately want to chow down. The display case...
View ArticleColette
Listed in Restaurants Colette Grand Cafe is the newly-opened restaurant at the base of the Thompson Hotel. Taking over from Scarpetta, the new 150-seat restaurant operates independently from the...
View ArticleUnion Yoga
Listed in Fitness Clubs Union Yoga is bringing an airy and modern space with plenty of options to get into your zen zone on Bloor West. Yoga instructor Ruby Knafo and her husband Harvey completely...
View ArticleHong Shing Chinese Restaurant
Listed in Restaurants Hong Shing Chinese Restaurant - a lunch spot for office workers and a late night eats staple for university students and weekend partiers in the downtown core since '95 - had a...
View ArticleDailo
Listed in Restaurants Dailo is the hotly anticipated new creative outlet for the culinary stylings of chef Nick Liu, the once-transient chef behind a series of Gwailo pop-ups known for inventive...
View ArticlePoutineville
Listed in Restaurants Poutineville has arrived in the Annex. This Montreal import specializing in that unhealthily irresistible French-Canadian combo of fries, cheese curds and gravy is taking things...
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