Photo taken just after midnight on Friday by Jonathan Goldsbie. The “For Renovations” part of the sign has since been torn off. You know what’s annoying? When the media overexposes a story while at the same time openly asking, “Is the media giving ____ too much coverage?” The Daily Show reams the cable news networks [...]

Toronto Public Health’s Antoine Nikolopoulos has gotten back to us; he’s the Entertainment District’s Environmental Health Officer, and yesterday he inspected Second Cup’s 307 Queen Street West location after Kate Bowen spotted a mouse inside the store on Sunday morning and sent photos along to us. First and foremost, Nikolopoulos concluded that the store has [...]

Earlier today, Torontoist got sent a series of photos that appear to show a mouse inside Second Cup‘s 307 Queen Street West location. The three shots (one above, and two after the fold) were taken by Kate Bowen this past Sunday at 2 a.m., while she was waiting for the Queen streetcar. According to Dinesafe, [...]

Photo by Hamish Grant. Customer loyalty is a hard thing for a company to get, but once they’ve got it, it takes a hell of a lot of bad work to lose. With Amato Pizza, I was one of the people who happily ate from the pizza place in spite of the protests against it [...]

To some concern and resistance, the City of Toronto implemented a significant taxi reform program in 1998, imposing a more consistent set of regulations and rearranging how the industry was run. From the public’s perspective, cabs seemed to become newer and cleaner almost immediately, and drivers were (hopefully) to become less-intimidating. One of the most [...]

When Toronto’s food disclosure program started in 2001, customers rejoiced and the Ontario Restaurant Hotel & Motel Association (ORHMA) took the city to court, challenging the validity of the by-law that forces restaurant operators to post health-inspection results. The ORHMA lost the challenge, and colour-coded cards started appearing in front windows after each health inspection. [...]