sniffydog

we are thinking of booking a trip to Toronto but cannot decide wether to stay in a hotel or an apartment. Is eating out expensive?

dbd33

No. And you can find every type of food prepared by a native of the country of the cuisine; it's the best thing about Toronto. Even in a very smart place two people would be pushed to spend $300 on dinner. At the other extreme, fabulous ethnic stuff can be had for ten bucks.

Auld Yin

What do you consider expensive?

wizzard

http://www.dine.to

Cornfedapache

Don't stay at Urban Living Suites!

Location is pretty cool, but the accommodation is not!

Can recommend Cafe 668 - Dundas West a couple of blocks west of Markham. Posh veggie nosh in Vietnamese stylee and not very expensive!
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?cid=15...50&hl=en&gl=uk

dbd33

Not really Toronto though is it?

Cookie

If shopping in the Eaton Centre, Baton Rouge has good food but if you want something cheaper then head down to the concourse where you will find the Richtree Market Restaurant.

Tucked away at the back is the rosti bar where I had the most wonderful BBQ chicken casserole, rosti and sour cream dish to die for. One of the other stands also has a delicious yoghurt, berries, oatmeal breakfast dessert dishes sitting on open barrels of ice - it's yummy.

Lots of different foods on offer there and much better than the usual chain food counters offered out by the seating area

dbd33

That's the old Movenpick Marche, much dissed on the chefy thread. I find "shopping at the Eaton Centre" an inexplicable activity but, if there, I'd walk to the St Lawrence Market where there's truly a wide range of quality food to be eaten standing up.

Cookie

Us shoppers need to sit when we can

Cornfedapache

Where is it then? I would have thought that 20 mins walk from the CN Tower is Toronto?

dbd33

"a couple of blocks west of Markham"

Markham? If that's Markham Road you've got long legs.

Auld Yin

I think it's Markham Street which would be about 20 minutes walk from downtown.

Cornfedapache

Yes, Markham St - sorry for the confusion! Runs between College St and Dundas St West

paolosmythe

mall food courts for day time cheap nosh

Frans diner for moderate grub (in price and quality) any time of the day or night

really, it is the pitchers of beer that suck up your twenties more than the food bills

Cornfedapache

Hmm wouldn't recommend mall food. I'm assuming you mean mall as in the UK version - ie block sized building with lots of shops?
Didn't have a single good experience...