Results tagged “restaurant”

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we've either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and sunset.

Last week, we reported on a confrontation at College and McCaul Streets where a cyclist stabbed a motorist in the neck and face with a screwdriver. Police have arrested Yonan Inwia for assault, but give no further details. It's stories like this that need Rosie DiManno: "Yonan Inwia fell roughly to the ground, his hands reaching out in a Christ-like fashion to break the heavy fall. Little did Yonan know, today he would be the messiah of cyclist rage, wielding the cuspidated tool of justice."

Each week, Torontoist shows off the most interesting, creative, and cool submissions to our Torontoist Flickr Pool. We're especially partial to photos that show our city in a new light, highlight a recent event, and remind us why we live here. Join the Flickr pool and show us what you've got. After school specialBY INVENTOR_77 Rusted Faith 2BY RIDE MY PONY TD CentreBY ARCTICLAMB Dead DollsBY RIDE MY PONY WalktoworkBY RYAN COLEMAN The Broken Pier...

Mid-1970s diners expected a certain level of ostentation when eating at finer Chinese cuisine establishments. Decor was touted as much, if not more, than what went into one's mouth. The atmosphere diners were promised at today's featured restaurant hints at a feast for the senses.

Torontoist loves local artists, and we love short films, so naturally we try to support local artists who make short films. This Tuesday, recent York film grad Nick Butler is organizing the Annex Film Party, a fundraising event for his new project, A Thing of the Past.

After some talk in April, we were worried that the movement on street food had fizzled out. Lo and behold, Councillor Filion is rounding up his troops of chefs for the promised Toronto Street Treats Event on Friday at Nathan Phillips Square from 12 to 2 p.m. with little to disappoint.

Who says there's no such thing as a free lunch?

This summer, Toronto will attempt "to probe the causes of panhandling and seek solutions" after business owners launched a complaint at City Hall yesterday. A Tim Hortons owner alleges that one beggar slapped her hard enough to draw blood after she asked him to leave her store. Restaurant owners complain that the homeless steal money and food off of patios and harass the patrons. Is it time Toronto did something about the panhandlers that flock to the city for the warm months?

FYI: the cherry blossoms in High Park are finally bloomin'.

If there's one defining quality of being a major metropolis, a "world class city" if you will, it is undoubtedly having a hockey team that despite having tons of money and a psychotically loyal fanbase can never win the championship. CORRECTION! It is undoubtedly having heaps of access to cheap Chinese food, preferably of the all-you-can-eat dinner buffet variety.

It's great when the Jazz Fest finally rolls around because it helps Torontoist justify paying all those banking fees. There are so many good shows that it'll be hard to catch them all, but hopefully this list will help you find your jazz beat. Aside from the acts listed below, music at 49 different venues around the city and the millions of tourist dollars the festival brings into the city, you can catch late night jam sessions every night at The Dominion and at The Rex. Don't forget about Stiffler's Mom either, they've got, um, a good rhythm section.

Torontoist wants to help one of the artists at last weekend's Santa Cruz find their missing squirrel. The squirrel dressed as a cobbler went missing from an artist station at last Friday's absolutely insane party on Captain John's Seafood Restaurant. He can be seen on the left-hand side of this photo. We hope that Schultzy (which is what we're naming the squirrel) is safe and hasn't been destroyed or worse ended up in the lake. If you know the whereabouts of Schultzy Squirrel please return him to I Deal Coffee in Kensington Market.

54east, the half-art, half-BIAish, bus route inspired magazine recently released its Spring 2006 issue. The cover story, points of origin, profiles in a positive, hard working way, successful entrepreneurs whose businesses line the Wexford neighbourhood. The article includes photos of Ian Leventhal's murals of the same business owners.

and chanted it regularly around the house - we had no idea what "children of thalidomide" meant, but we sure liked the sound of "space monkey mafia." We occasionally drift into daydreams about being the Uptown Girl of someone's dreams who wants us Just the Way We Are so we can enact Scenes in An Italian Restaurant For the Longest TIme while we're in a New York State of Mind.

In retrospect, the story of the Puggle in Toronto was all-too-predictable: Someone in New York cross-breeds dogs, various influential celebrities pick up on the new breed, the trend inevitabley trickles down (or up) to Toronto.

Torontoist believes that this sudden burst of summer weather has something to do with the excitement for part three of the he said/she said Summer Dating guide. This week, we take a look at some of the city's best places to eat on a date, with a focus on both vegetarian and carnivorous diets. And what makes this post so special is that it is the guest blogging debute of Matt Blair, Torontoist's new He. While discussion "business" to get today's post ready, it was discovered that Matt had recently become vegetarian while Paige had recently switched back to eating meat. Eager to defend their dietary choices by romantic standards, we present He Said/She Said Summer Dating carnivore versus vegetarian.

Winterlicious comes but once a year, but there’s no reason the more financially-challenged can’t eat like kings all the time. Case in point: Siegfried’s Restaurant.

A favourable review from Now Magazine can do a lot for a local artist, musician or filmmaker but is it the kiss of death for Toronto restaurateurs? Even Now food critic Steven Davey noticed that favourable write-ups from the alt-weekly did very little for a string of Kensington Market restaurants in a review of the Streams of Blessings Fish Shack. That charming restaurant is still there, but the Now curse has claimed another victim, new vegetarian eatery, The Restaurant.

The Toronto Restaurant Challenge is inviting you to come out to eat on January 26th, when a dozen participating restaurants will have their servers give their tips to tsunami relief. Toronto Councillor Adam Giambrone has thanked the selfless servers of the city, but TOist only feels bad for them. It's a sort of great idea, supporting local restos and tithing to Thailand, but at the same time it's a bit indulgent. Rather we ate a modest supper, and gave the entire hundred away. But of course if you've been waiting for an opportunity to go out for an especially nice meal, why not go on the 26th?

The appeal of New Ho King Restaurant(416 Spadina) is fairly obvious; affordable, promptly served, after-hours Chinese. After a long night of throwing back beverages on College St., the mix of Hunan beef, sweet and sour chicken balls and BBQ pork admittedly make for the perfect night cap. And relative to the neighbouring Burger King or the 7-11 frozen burrito rack, the restaurant even seems like the more refined choice in the area. But one look at the soiled plastic table clothes and the noticeably goo-covered chairs, the New Ho King charm fades fast.

Oh Sam Roberts, how the fratboys love you so. And Torontoist likes you too, though you once looked our friend's girlfriend up and down so many times he thought you might strain something. But that was then, and you were getting photographed at Bright Pearl Restaurant, and they were eating Har Gau, and that's all water under the proverbial bridge. Now you're all grown up and playing pared down accoustic shows, with the likes of Pale Sarah Harmer, Failer Kathleen Edwards and Fairest Jim Cuddy. Good on you. Good on everybody. 'Where have all the good people gone?' you ask. 'Why they're all here, Sam, you just can't tell because they're tucked under their well-worn baseball caps.'

Get ready to be outraged and outpunned: According to the Toronto-based Canadian Restaurant and Foodservice Association, we're all getting bilked, er, we meant "milked" by greedy dairy providers – check out the "cowculator" to see exactly how much. Naturally, Pizza Pizza is leading the restaurants' charge since it is, afterall, one of the largest consumers of mozzarella in the country.

Grapefruit Moon, that Seaton Village hub of hashed browns and fair trade coffee, is getting the makeover treatment. Its windows will remain covered with a fetching black plastic while a show, rumoured to be called 'Restaurant Makeover,' gives the resto the wham-bam-resplastered-mam redux. While Torontoist wasn't gaga for the Moon's previous look, it was cozy, and seemed to suit the local establishment quite nicely. We'll be curious to see what those speedy and dextrous designer hands will bring forth in a few week's time. In the interim, SLT (seitan, lettuce and tomato) fans will have to go elsewhere to have their brunch needs met.