Hey guys its great to see a site like this. I moved 2 months ago to Toronto with my soon to be hubby (2 weeks from today.) I've been to Toronto before but never lived long term. Its strange settling in to day to day life out here, is anyone else finding it hard to find real English tea ? I guess im just looking to meet some other Brits who have moved out here and share stories. And get some good remides for occasional home sickness.

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Welcome to BE. Where abouts in T.O. are you? We moved to the US (New Jersey in '96) our daughter's been at uni in T.O. for over 4 yrs and loves the city.

We're in west Toronto. And yup i have to say the city is buzzing. Theres lots to do and so much culture, the summer festivals are amazing. Whats your daughter studying? My partner and i just graduated a year ago from a Scottish uni.

She's just started grad school...Business and Finance. We have a place downtown...by the lake.

Nice. Its lovely down there. I actually have family visiting and there staying in that area. Can u recommend any nice restaurants around there?

The set menu at 360 at the top of the CN Tower is a must. Quite reasonable and includes tickets to the viewing deck. Make reservations an hour or so before dusk that way you'll see the city in daylight and at night.

Hi and welcome to BE where all the crazzzzy Brits hang out.

Cheers Jerseygirl, 360 sounds good they want to check out the CN tower anyway so why not do it over dinner

And thanks for the welcome Alvic, sounds like ill fit in

The fee for the tower is around $26...the set dinner menu included is only about $20 more.

http://www.cntower.ca/portal/GetPage.aspx?at=860

Thats not bad. cheers.

p.s does anyone else have trouble logging into the chat page? it just sticks on connecting to server.

You HAVE to do the CN Tower restaurant it is lovely.
We also went to a French restaurant called "Le Papillon" http://www.lepapillon.ca/home.html
It is near the St Laurence Market, really worth a wee visit, my husband said it was the best French Onion soup he had ever tasted.
MandD

Thank you for that link...French onion soup is my favourite.

Queen West, from University to Bathurst, lots of neat restaurants, lots of interesting stores, lots of interesting people.

Yonge and Eglinton(the Young and the Easy, the Young and the Eligible) , lots of action.

I like that place but it's specifically a Quebec restaurant rather than a French one. A nice French place in that area is La Maquette http://www.lamaquette.com/.

Hi! I just wanted to say congratulations on your forthcoming wedding. Are you having a big 'do'?

We still live in England at the moment but I always complain about the tea when I go to Canada ha ha luckily my relatives over there buy in PG tips for me now! Hope you get some remedies to homesickness.

Good luck with the nuptials.