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LA's Italian Bar
Listed in Restaurants LA's Italian Bar is an updated version of Little Anthony's, which has occupied the corner of Richmond and York streets for 17 years. Recently taken over by the next-gen...
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Song Cook's
Listed in Restaurants Song's Cooks is an amazing, authentic Korean restaurant that is virtually hidden at the back of a strip mall off Steeles Avenue near Yonge Street. The restaurant is separated...
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Shiso Tree Cafe
Listed in Restaurants Shiso Tree Cafe specializes in Japanese-style pasta. Internationally, there are chains that serve this food, most notably Pasta de Waraku which is insanely popular in Asia, but...
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Indie Alehouse
Listed in Restaurants Indie Alehouse is the much-anticipated brewpub that has finally opened on Dundas Street in the once-dry Junction. With an opening date that was long-delayed by red tape,...
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Reds Wine Tavern
Listed in Restaurants Reds Wine Tavern, a place known for power lunches and after work drinks in the core of Toronto's Financial District, has totally has reinvented itself after a month-long closure....
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Williams Craig Design Studio
Listed in Design Stores Williams Craig Design Studio is making use of its new streetside digs by combining its corporate business with its own carefully curated design boutique. The firm spent more...
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Huntclub
Listed in Galleries Huntclub is a new multidisciplinary studio and gallery space that calls Little Italy home. Over the last decade, Toronto's art scene has spread far beyond its original ground zero...
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I Barbieri
Listed in Fashion Stores It's the middle of Sukkot when I visit Anthony Del Maestro at I Barbieri, his old school barbershop in the middle of the heavily orthodox Jewish stretch of Bathurst by...
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Gold Diamond Chinese Restaurant
Listed in Restaurants Gold Diamond Chinese Restaurant, at the corner of St. Andrew St. and Spadina in the heart of Chinatown, is the re-named and slightly re-imagined Bright Pearl that was a long time...
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Global Cheese
Listed in Grocery Stores Global Cheese has unveiled its newly renovated digs, complete with "Betsy" and "Molly" holding guard by the front door. "That one we got off the internet," says Jason DaSilva,...
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Cafe Tangiers
Listed in Restaurants Café Tangiers is a hardly noticeable hole-in the wall that I've been enjoying for years, for for far more than just its ambience, and the smoke and fragrant shisha scents that...
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John & Sons Oyster House
Listed in Restaurants John & Sons Oyster House has just opened on Yonge Street south of St. Clair in the space you may remember from past incarnations as Terroni, and more recently, Divino. Gone...
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Bassline Bar
Listed in Bars Bassline Bar opened its doors about 2 months ago, on a stretch of Bloor just east of Ossington that even its owner admits has seen some significant changes. "Now, women feel safe...
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Monocle
Listed in Design Stores Monocle began as a magazine, and later morphed into a global media brand. But to the unbriefed and average College Street passerby, Monocle is just a new eclectic little...
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Cafe Con Leche
Listed in Cafes Café Con Leche is located by the underwhelming intersection of Dupont and Perth. "Underwhelming" by first impression, mind you. Because if you ask owners Carlos and Sandra — and...
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Zeerah
Listed in Restaurants Zeerah, a family-owned Pakistani fast-food joint, might just be my new favourite place in Mississauga to grab Pakistani roadside burgers (bun kebabs). The delectable bun kebab...
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Rebozos (College St.)
Listed in Restaurants Rebozos (College St.) opened its doors just a few short weeks ago, although I first met owner Indalecio Marroquin during his short-lived tenancy at 214 Augusta. The petite...
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Michael's on Simcoe
Listed in Restaurants Michael's on Simcoe recently opened to the public after hosting hordes of celebrities during TIFF. The work of former Harbour Sixty GM Michael Dabic, the restaurant positions...
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Oshio Japanese Restaurant
Listed in Restaurants Oshio Japanese Restaurant has been a long-time resident in the bus terminal of a mall at Don Mills and Steeles. Taken over two years ago by new owners, little has changed and...
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Contraband
Listed in Fashion Stores Contraband has been open for just a few days, but you'd never know it from the already pristine, everything-in-its-place interior. The stock is not yet fully rounded out--you...
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