Tinuno
Listed in Restaurants Tinuno is a homey Filipino restaurant in St. James Town. They're known for Filipino feasts which incorporate an incredible variety of traditional dishes into a smorgasbord eaten...
View ArticleThe Best Shop
Listed in Design Stores The Best Shop is a massive store at the top of Pacific Mall that's akin to a Chinese Wal-Mart. It stocks everything that you would find in an Asian household, ranging from...
View ArticleSweet Esc Dessert Cafe
Listed in Cafes Sweet Esc Dessert Cafe is a hidden gem for your sweet tooth nestled in a strip mall in Markham. The imposing cookie-cutter buildings of suburbia that surround this cafe obscure the...
View ArticleRadical Road Brewing
Listed in Restaurants Radical Road Brewing is a microbrewery and taproom in Leslieville. They brew all their beer in-house, and you can see parts of the process going on through a window that looks in...
View ArticleLena
Listed in Restaurants Lena is a new restaurant with historic roots. It's located in the former Hudson Bay (now Saks) and the multi-storey venue embraces the building's art deco accents. The etched...
View ArticlePizzeria Via Mercanti (Gerrard)
Listed in Restaurants Pizzeria Via Mercanti is already well established in Toronto with two existing locations but this is their easternmost restaurant on Gerrard near Coxwell in Little India. Inside...
View ArticleArvo Coffee
Listed in Cafes Arvo Coffee is a Distillery District cafe, one of the few places beyond Balzac's to get a coffee in the historic industrial area. They set themselves apart by being a combination...
View ArticleBar Mar
Listed in Restaurants Bar Mar is an upscale but comfortable Peruvian- and Spanish-influenced tapas restaurant on Mount Pleasant. It's owned by half-brothers James Bailey and Ivan Tarazona, the latter...
View ArticleBaddies
Listed in Cafes Baddies stands at Bloor and Lansdowne just steps from the entrance to Lansdowne subway station, where for long there was only an odd assortment of very casual cafes and restaurants...
View ArticleB'saha
Listed in Restaurants B'saha is a Moroccan joint at College and Clinton in Little Italy's bustling row of restaurants, right across from the Royal Cinema. Co-owners Safaa Sosyane and Otman Haouzi...
View ArticlePokito
Listed in Restaurants Pokito is an addition to the ever-expanding range of poke shops in Toronto. Poke means to cut cross-wise, and it's a dish with Hawaiian origins that typically incorporates...
View ArticleNordstrom Toronto Eaton Centre
Listed in Fashion Stores Nordstrom's first Toronto location and Canadian flagship takes up a sprawling 220,000 square feet at CF Eaton Centre, right by Dundas Square. Although it's the U.S. department...
View ArticleCandyland
Listed in Bars Candyland is a burlesque bar-meets-supper club-meets experimental theatre on King West, though even those three descriptors don't really accurately describe what Candyland is. Candyland...
View ArticleBlack Bear Espresso
Listed in Cafes Black Bear Espresso is an independent coffee shop hidden in 25 Carlton under towering residences. They brew Pilot coffee and other liquid delights in their homey oasis in the middle of...
View ArticleOctobertwelve
Listed in Fashion Stores Octobertwelve started as an e-store selling cutting-edge jewellery by young designers for just $12, hence the name Octobertwelve. There's more to the "twelve" premise in this...
View ArticleBlack Rock Coffee
Listed in Cafes Black Rock Coffee (not to be confused with an American chain with a similar name) is the companion cafe to Basecamp Climbing in Koreatown. Basecamp's owner, Matthew Languay, partnered...
View ArticleInitium
Listed in Cafes Initium is a cafe, salon and lounge in Markham. They have a big space that easily accommodates all these functions and are fully equipped with TVs, a projector, ample seating both in...
View ArticleChallal Bakery
Listed in Baked Goods Challal Bakery is a small Middle Eastern bakery in Scarborough that specializes in Lebanese pizza and pastries like spinach and meat hand pies. It sits quietly in the corner of a...
View ArticlePeace Treats
Listed in Restaurants Peace Treats is a gourmet milkshake bar and more located inside Peace Collective at Augusta and Ossington. The retailer found a big space to stock their simple but innovative...
View Article98 Aroma
Listed in Restaurants 98 Aroma brings refined Northern Chinese dining to Chinatown. The neighbourhood's restaurants are, for the most part, not known for their romance or mood lighting but that's not...
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