Ever marvel at the architecture of Casa Loma, Osgoode Hall and the Ontario Legislature in Queen's Park? Those lovely red-brick buildings, dear friends, are the legacy of Toronto's vernacular building material—sweet slabs formed from the banks of the Don herself. From 1889 to 1980, the Don Valley Brick Works made some of the highest quality brick in the land. Why, in 1893, the Don Valley brick was crowned Best Brick at the Chicago World's......

Kensington Market Organic Ice Cream has returned! This small, Toronto-based artisinal ice cream joint that took our taste buds by storm several summers ago has always had trouble maintaining a venue. Last summer, it was operating out of The Back Alley (the restaurant, not an actual back alley) on Augusta. The summer before that, it was using the since-abandoned Sancis Fine Foods storefront on Kensington. Torontoist was dismayed a little while back when ice......

This Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., you can enjoy the inaugural weekend of the Don Valley Brick Works Farmers Market. Many of your favorite vendors from Toronto's other organic farmers markets will be there, including Chocosol, who might just let you ride their bicycle powered chocolate blender. You can also buy your weekly loaf from St. John's Bakery or Alli's bread, and pick up your spring veggies from several local organic......

Every weekday, Torontoist is facing off local memes and blog drama in a tournament-style ladder and you, the reader, decide the outcome. View the full ladder here. Some highlights: Kensington Market turns out the lights on Nuit Blanche (118 - 95): Dizzy from the smell of fish, Nuit Blanche stumbles in this epic battle of nocturnal versus somnambulant. Al Waxman named MVP of Kensington for numerous slam dunks. IllegalSigns.ca revokes Dufferin Grove's permit (109......

For nigh on a decade now, Torontoist has stood firm in her conviction that a fridge without a head of broccoli is like an island without an airport, which here means, "almost no one feels ambivalent about it." Former republican presidents hate it. Catherine de Medici made it a star. All we can do is tell you how to choose and care for it, and try to keep the controversy swilling. What's most important for......

Thanksgiving weekend marked the beginning of harvest season (or the end, if your harvest season involved picking apples in Bowmanville). We're all wearing scarves, the leaves are turning yellow, and it's time to roll out the cornucopia of gourds and wild corn. The best places to find gourds and wild corn are harvest-themed events, but they don't usually happen in the centre of the city. Luckily, Harvest Family Fun Day at the Brick Works......

For the next seven weeks, Nathan Phillips Square will be the definition of F-R-Esh. From July 13 till August 24, every Wednesday becomes Fresh Wednesday at City Hall with the farmers market and live open-air concerts at lunch time. Apples, carrots, green beans, celery, flowers - it's all there. Not to mention a concert line-up that includes acts like the ChoirGirlz and the Fridge Magnets. The Fridge Magnets! Okay so it's not that fresh, but......

It's about time some delicious, locally grown organic produce came to the St. Clair area. Starting tomorrow, June 4, until October, the Bretton Place Social Club hosts a delicious, locally grown Organic Farmer's Market. Featuring OCPP Certified Organic from two farms, Sosnickiorganics and Plan B Organics, the market is a great place to pick up that delicious, locally grown baby salad mix that Southern Ontario is so famous for.......