Toronto - what should I do/see?
Apr 23rd 2010, 5:32 am
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Re: Toronto - what should I do/see?
Hi
If you want the eating expeience to beat all eating experiences head to The Rich Tree Market Restaurant on Yonge Street....our fav place.......all cooked individually while you wait.....all types of food and the puds are to die for!
lol
Stef
If you want the eating expeience to beat all eating experiences head to The Rich Tree Market Restaurant on Yonge Street....our fav place.......all cooked individually while you wait.....all types of food and the puds are to die for!
lol
Stef
Hi
I am in Toronto for work next week, I think I may have a free afternoon on Wednesday, so have a few hours to do what I like!
As this is my first trip to Toronto, is there anything you recommend I should see or do , in the very short time I have? Would like to make the most of it
Thanks
I am in Toronto for work next week, I think I may have a free afternoon on Wednesday, so have a few hours to do what I like!
As this is my first trip to Toronto, is there anything you recommend I should see or do , in the very short time I have? Would like to make the most of it
Thanks
Apr 23rd 2010, 10:22 am
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Re: Toronto - what should I do/see?
I like, La Maquette (French), Papillon(French), the Tulip(diner), Barbecue Hut(Indian), Madras Dosa(Indian), Nevada(American-French) the Carousel(stand up bacon sandwich bar), Dufflet(cake shop). I suggest that Captain John's ( a restaurant in a boat) and the Beer Bistro are the worst clip joints in the city.
I wouldn't bother with the CNN Tower, from up there you can see a bleak landscape of unattractive suburbs and lots of lake. It's worth going with children, for the glass floor, but I'd say that's it. I might risk going to the Island though it'll be chilly on the ferry. If you want outdoors then the Queen car to Woodbine (ask the driver to call out when you get to Woodbine), walk south, take the boardwalk east along the lake as far as you care to, then walk up to Queen for lots of restaurants and bars.
Allen Gardens is a very Toronto place, a greenhouse of cacti surrounded by homeless people and gay dog walkers. Since it's the afternoon, you could also go to the St. Lawrence market and buy whatever food you can't get in the east. And then for visions you don't get at home, there's Church St. from about Gerrard to Bloor.
I wouldn't bother with the CNN Tower, from up there you can see a bleak landscape of unattractive suburbs and lots of lake. It's worth going with children, for the glass floor, but I'd say that's it. I might risk going to the Island though it'll be chilly on the ferry. If you want outdoors then the Queen car to Woodbine (ask the driver to call out when you get to Woodbine), walk south, take the boardwalk east along the lake as far as you care to, then walk up to Queen for lots of restaurants and bars.
Allen Gardens is a very Toronto place, a greenhouse of cacti surrounded by homeless people and gay dog walkers. Since it's the afternoon, you could also go to the St. Lawrence market and buy whatever food you can't get in the east. And then for visions you don't get at home, there's Church St. from about Gerrard to Bloor.
I suppose you have no shortage of animals in whatever rustic place you live in, but, if time is short, you could do worse than to take the Carlton car to Parliament, walk a block north and then east and wander through the very attractive houses to the Riverdale zoo (a sort of urban recreation of a farm). It'd be more about gawking at the houses, Victorian and recreations thereof, than seeing a couple of cart horses and some chickens but it's very pleasant.
there's always one
, with 2 kids!, Thanks all for your ideas
Apr 23rd 2010, 11:33 am
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Re: Toronto - what should I do/see?
The Rich Tree is the old Movenpick buffet rebranded and moved slightly downmarket. Their distribution points are locations in malls. Even when the Rich Tree was Movenpick it wasn't quite up to the standard of the ones in Europe. It seems a shame to go to Toronto and to eat in a transplanted Autoroute Service Area. If you want food that you have to carry from the place of cooking, then Chinatown (Spadina/Dundas) offers that and smells you won't get at home. Little India (Gerrard from Greenwood to Coxwell) also has lots of street food vendors though it's more of a night place than an afternoon one.
Apr 23rd 2010, 11:39 am
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Apr 23rd 2010, 11:59 am
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It will be re-opening in the summer under the Movenpick name. There is a cafe there now selling drinks, sandwiches, snacks that sort of thing.
Apr 23rd 2010, 12:20 pm
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The Rich Tree is the old Movenpick buffet rebranded and moved slightly downmarket. Their distribution points are locations in malls. Even when the Rich Tree was Movenpick it wasn't quite up to the standard of the ones in Europe. It seems a shame to go to Toronto and to eat in a transplanted Autoroute Service Area.
As you probably know, Movenpick is the default restaurant in Switzerland on the autobahn and in many train stations....actually some of the most affordable food in Switzerland.
Apr 23rd 2010, 12:27 pm
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The one on York St. was less of a cafeteria. I used to go there from time-to-time with assorted Swiss people; they'd analyze the rosti with the disdain one sees from the English at American beer tastings.
Apr 24th 2010, 12:19 am
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Hi
I am in Toronto for work next week, I think I may have a free afternoon on Wednesday, so have a few hours to do what I like!
As this is my first trip to Toronto, is there anything you recommend I should see or do , in the very short time I have? Would like to make the most of it
Thanks
I am in Toronto for work next week, I think I may have a free afternoon on Wednesday, so have a few hours to do what I like!
As this is my first trip to Toronto, is there anything you recommend I should see or do , in the very short time I have? Would like to make the most of it
Thanks
Apr 24th 2010, 9:15 am
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Good analogy of Movenpick...I remember when it opened in Toronto in the early 90's people raved about the novelty of the food being prepared in front of you as you, the customer, walked from food station to food station to pick up your food. Having said all that, the coffee was quite good and ditto for the 'rosti' and the desserts.
As you probably know, Movenpick is the default restaurant in Switzerland on the autobahn and in many train stations....actually some of the most affordable food in Switzerland.
As you probably know, Movenpick is the default restaurant in Switzerland on the autobahn and in many train stations....actually some of the most affordable food in Switzerland.
Apr 24th 2010, 9:04 pm
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Hi
I am in Toronto for work next week, I think I may have a free afternoon on Wednesday, so have a few hours to do what I like!
As this is my first trip to Toronto, is there anything you recommend I should see or do , in the very short time I have? Would like to make the most of it
Thanks
I am in Toronto for work next week, I think I may have a free afternoon on Wednesday, so have a few hours to do what I like!
As this is my first trip to Toronto, is there anything you recommend I should see or do , in the very short time I have? Would like to make the most of it
Thanks
Apr 24th 2010, 9:24 pm
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I had seen Bill's Fish & Chips but not yet ventured in. There is a resonable jerk chicken place called "Cool Runnings" and a breakfast place opposite that I occasionally visit on Main heading south of the intersection.
What would you say is the best Fish & Chip shop in this area?
Apr 26th 2010, 12:55 am
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Yes I have seen this pool. I have discovered a hidden gem of a swimming pool though at Glen Ames High School next to the Beeches Rec Centre. Never busy- so easy to work out.
I had seen Bill's Fish & Chips but not yet ventured in. There is a resonable jerk chicken place called "Cool Runnings" and a breakfast place opposite that I occasionally visit on Main heading south of the intersection.
What would you say is the best Fish & Chip shop in this area?
I had seen Bill's Fish & Chips but not yet ventured in. There is a resonable jerk chicken place called "Cool Runnings" and a breakfast place opposite that I occasionally visit on Main heading south of the intersection.
What would you say is the best Fish & Chip shop in this area?
My daughter had shifts as a lifeguard at both of those pools as well as at Riverdale, Greenwood and Regent Park, and was the swimming coach at Matty Eckler (opposite the welfare mall) before ending up as a shift manager at the pool on the boardwalk. One can pick up a lots of gossip hanging around swimming pools; Riverdale is only for the most broadminded of straight men.
Apr 26th 2010, 12:57 am
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Apr 26th 2010, 1:02 am
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