Results tagged “sushi”

We wanted to start off this challenge with a proclamation, in Japanese, of our deep love of sushi. Unfortunately, all the online translators we tried just came up with a bunch of squares. We're pretty sure the Japanese language has evolved past this, so we're going to have to blame it on our inferior translator-finding skills and move on.

Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, the fourth volume in the popular comic book series by Brian Lee O'Malley, hits stores across the city today.

Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the Toronto Japanese Short Film Festival opens its doors tonight and runs until Sunday at the Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Avenue).

Eat Me is a regular feature about the nooks and crannies of Toronto's restaurant scene, about the amazing restaurants that are––for some reason––criminally underpatronized. It's pretty easy to find sushi places in this city. From the Bloor Street strip to North York, sushi places range from suspiciously cheap to ridiculously expensive, from having incredibly creative culinary creations to the same old rolls. Quietly tucked on the east edge of Little Italy is Jun Jun Sushi...

“That’s something you won’t find at Loblaws,” said Frank Yip, as he gestured toward the delectable-looking barbecued meats hanging behind glass at the deli. He’s right; though a staple in Chinatown, it’s a tantalizing display that might be unfamiliar to Toronto citizens used to a more typical grocery shopping experience. It’s also the perfect welcome to T&T Supermarket—the new best friend of Portlands-area foodies.

It's tough to get excited about Kikkoman soy sauce bottles. They've been around since 1961, and you find them at every sushi dive in the city. But, at one time, they were the height of tableware innovation, and for that reason, they're included in a new show at the Design Exchange: Japanese Design Today 100.

Some residents of the Beach have threatened a legal injunction to stop a local church from housing 12 homeless people one night a week. Merry Christmas to you too, folks…

Everyone's all excited over the reopening of New Generation Sushi, and that's all very well and good, but it seems no one has been paying much attention to the odd goings on, sign-wise, across the street at Sushi Time:

Don't have plans for Mother's Day? Why don't you take your mother to the newly reopened New Generation Sushi. Torontoist was sad to see the Annex stalwart get gutted by fire in December but we're happy to see NGS back on its feet. All we have to say is Kampai (that's cheers in Japanese).

Ban there, done that. In lieu of the City of Chicago's ban on foie gras, Toronto and our various bans seem a lot less authoritarian. In fact, we would venture to say our city is substantially lagging in the ban game. To make ourselves feel better about this, Torontoist has put together a list of memorable bans, almost bans and future bans for the city. Since there is no comprehensive list of banned items (that we are aware of), add any that we've missed in the comment boards.

The Star reports that the TTC and eight other crime enforcement agencies have made another arrest in a huge scam involving fake TTC tokens.

The delightful Jill Murray overheard the following at Sweet Lulu this weekend: J. Crew Dad (blue collared shirt, brown blazer): Maybe next year we can go for sushi. J.Crew Daughter (pink collared shirt, pink sweater): Ew, I don't know... J.Crew Son (beige collared shirt, beige sweater): You know what we should do? We should try a new ethnic food every year....

New Generation Sushi, a mainstay of the Annex neighbourhood, has closed due to a fire accident.

Loud Sushi on Bloor patron 'bragging' to his dining partner: I got nominated and came in 2nd for best part-time faculty at York. We appreciate the consistency in his mediocrity. He probably orders his wings extra medium....

The Bloor Cinema is heavy with festivals so shortly after the celebration of its 100th birthday, with The One-Minute Film and Video Festival starting tonight,as blogged below, and last night’s opening night gala of the Reel Asian Film Festival, The Motel.

A couple of months back Torontoist wrote about the sushi stretch on Bloor Street. Our readers weighed in recommending favourite places and eventually went to the other extreme and raved about fish and chip places they liked.

TOist's peaceful sushi lunch was somewhat disrupted by an overly enthusiastic response to his dining partner's admission that it was her time of the month.

Advance copies of Toronto Life are telling us that TOist gets the big mention in a media column on blogs by the grand Fulf himself. We're not the best seat in his house, just a site that 'nails some of Toronto's clichés,' while still lacking a bit of a voice. But we're young and mute, so it may take us a while.

Le Mercredi Mixtape returns. Yep, it's *sixeyes sharing music on Torontoist with you the Torontoist readers. So, put a plug in it, plug in and listen up while Torontoist plugs some recent discoveries and some favourites.

Bloor Street, between Spadina and Bathurst, was already the go-to-it stretch for cheap sushi, and free green tea ice cream. But the past few weeks have helped the sashimi strip up the ante even further - two new Japanese restaurants, which brings the tally to an impressive eight restaurants in about as many blocks. They're all on the cheap to reasonable side to begin with, so TOist has to wonder how low the pricewars will make a Makimono Set go.

This week marks the countdown to next weekend’s opening of the much-anticipated and much-debated Massive Change exhibit at the AGO. Everyone has criticized Mau’s bizarrely utopian and woolly optimism. Mau’s 2001 book, Life Style, focused on shaping design’s role in individual lives, recognizing that ‘lifestyle’ in the post-war period had come to be defined solely in terms of consumptive patterns rather than class or occupation. The argument was loosely patched together by brilliant aesthetic design and soaring catchphrases, but when broken down, puzzlingly vacant - resembling an elaborately bound PowerPoint presentation with great photography.

Lucky for us, Torontoist has had only good times at the trendy late night spot on Queen West. Open till 4am on weekends, it's a great place to stop in for a reliable meal or decent drink any time.

And speaking of Canuck women and theatre, if you happen to be popping by London, England, in the next little while, Kim Cattrall is about to star in a play about euthanasia called Whose Life is it Anyway? directed by British stage legend Peter Hall. Casting the actress best known as Samantha from Sex and the City as a paralysed woman who has no feeling below her neck has got to be the ultimate in casting against type, no?

Guy 4: Yeah, dude.

Instead of standing up to raw fish, why doesn't Smitherdork stand up to Ontario MD's to get new contracts signed? According to my good friend and old college roommate Roy Romanow, the notoriously cranky Smitherpants should save the attitude for the doctors. Or even better, doctors that eat sushi.

In the same key of dubious spending minor, city council has yet to vote on the $47,000,000 311 service. The costs would be divided over three years. Not an extremely huge amount of money to pay for a service that'll be infinitely better than Access Toronto. But not chump change either. 47 mil buys a lot of hotel rooms.

The Ontario government has a new message for the province's unfrozen raw fish: You can swim, but you can't hide! Starting Jan. 1, 2005, Ontario will take a swipe at the illness known as anisakiasis by banning unfrozen raw fish in restaurants. Unfrozen raw fish (street name: "sushi") can very rarely carry a parasitic roundworm that burrows into the stomach or intestine. The Ontario crackdown on unfrozen raw fish will force the sushi chefs to freeze the fish at -20 C for at least seven days. In preparation for the ban, Toronto's sushi restaurants are planning to serve unfrozen raw pit bulls instead.