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Greenavi Cafe enters the ‘deadpool’

Filed in restaurants,Toronto, August 30, 2009, 6:05 pm by ,

BlogTO uses the term ‘deadpool’ when a store, restaurant or cafe up and closes permanently, and unfortunately one of my favourite places along this strip of Queen West has done exactly that. Greenavi was a great place to grab a cup of coffee and chill with a book, or do a few hours work with [...]

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Victory Cafe Summer Cask Ale Festival

Filed in events,restaurants,Toronto, July 14, 2009, 9:51 pm by ,

Rich and I attended the summer version of the Victory Cafe’s cask ale festival this past weekend, put on in partnership with CASK!. I covered the winter version for Food TV, but this time we were just going for us. Upon arriving we noted the crowd wasn’t quite as big as at the winter version, [...]

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Mel’s Diner… closed?

Filed in restaurants,Toronto, , 12:31 am by , ,

Coming back from seeing Matisyahu play at the Opera House, Rich and I noticed that Mel’s Diner was closed.  Wait, hold on… closed? Aren’t they open 24 hours a day? The ‘Notice of Distress’ posted to the door, dated July 13th, seemed to indicate they were being locked out for non-payment of rent. I don’t [...]

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Vegan food, no fur allowed

Filed in restaurants,Toronto, April 13, 2009, 2:05 pm by , ,

Urban Herbivore is one of my favourite lunch spots in Toronto. I’m not going to wax poetic about the virtues of eating vegan; after all, I’m a vegetarian who went back to eating fish and chicken for a few years before turning back to veggie-dom. But I do really like the sandwiches at Herbivore. My [...]

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Wanda’s Pie in the Sky

Filed in restaurants,Toronto, April 11, 2009, 12:33 pm by ,

Rich and I first heard about Wanda’s when we visited Manic Coffee for the first time and discovered their really delicious baked goods were from a place called Wanda’s Pie in the Sky. We loved the name, but didn’t know much more about the bakery other than they made some vegan treats. However, a few [...]