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Hot Diggity-Dog!

By Kasandra Bracken

It looks like the street’s no longer just for meat—Toronto a la Cart announced the city’s latest restos to hit the road this morning. All eight new vendors were chosen on the grounds of healthiness, hygiene, and, of course, scrumptiousness. From Caribfusion at Yonge and St. Clair to Eritrean eats at Roundhouse Park, the new street eats will range as far in reach across the city as they will in flavour. And while they may make you reach deeper into your pocket than your typical bratwurst-in-a-bun, it’s for your benefit, according to the city councillor behind the calendar. In the Post today, John Filion said that the higher price is “because it will be real food.” But it won’t be ’till May long weekend—when the carts wheel their way in—that we’ll be able to see if he’s putting his money where his mouth is.

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  • http://undefined Gauldar

    Nothing wrong with Danforth rat in saran wrap on a bun. You just douse the thing with so much mustard, olives and hot peppers that you don’t even notice the mildew.

  • Threnody

    Eight city-wide seems like a very low limit. 20 would be more reasonable. It’d be nice to see one at Yonge & Dundas and near Church & Wellesley.

  • http://null rek

    8 is insanely low. 8 on Queen West alone, I’d understand, but 8 in the whole city? There are intersections in Seoul with more than that many food carts.

  • http://undefined rugby lad

    Curiously little or no vegetarian food. One of the great things about TO in general is access to vegetarian food all over the city. Only thing I saw on the menu that was vegetarian were samosas.

  • http://null montauk

    Yeah, what’s up with that? I’d love some street-made hot seasoned potato wedges, Indian-style barbecued corn cobs, spicy noodles in vegetable broth, panipuris, various fritters, Trinidadian doubles, and any number of customizable pancake, wrap, and crepe-based stuffed treats.
    Instead we get pad thai, souvlaki, and kebabs. Nothing against pad thai, souvlaki, and kebabs, but Toronto needs pad thai, souvlaki, and kebab street vendors like it needs a Tim Hortons street vendor or a “Lanyards & Caribiners of the World” street vendor or whatever. We have enough already.

  • http://undefined cgerald

    The city counsel honestly needs to go away. Toronto doesn’t need any more piecemeal gestures. It needs real leadership and the people willing to take risks.
    And an end to last call.