You are very welcome! Don't forget Caplansky's - the Jewish fatty smoked meat on rye and our new jewel - Porchetta! The best dam' pork in town look for porchettaco website with delicious fat and crackling and very near the real Italian standard (and their soups are amazing too). And just across the street (incidentally the same street AGO is on only a bit further west) some of the very best pastel de nata custard tarts Toronto has to offer at the Portuguese bakery - Caldense (Dundas/Palmerston) - the other stuff's not so great though. Very good unusual falafel at the Kensington market Akram's shoppe - and lamb shawarma too. And the pho at Saigon Palace on Spadina and the cheapest and very family Chinese hole in the wall hangout in Kom Jug Yen almost across the street with great bbq duck. Authentic Polish dining experience cafe Polonez on Roncesvalles but that's too far west. And an authentic but sooo kitchy Georgian hangout Aragvi but way way far north you don't want to spend 3 hours getting there and back even for the delights of the really amazing Georgian cuisine. High end French dining - but really continental French two guys from the Loire Valley run it - Loire restaurant. And anyway if you can spare a moment only for one of these places I would say Porchetta - that's something that you probably cannot have at home but definitely should as a pork lover (cash only mind and better take stuff out and have a picnic as there is practically no space inside). Oy, and I've forgotten Krepesz on Augusta Kensington market - gorgeous Hungarian hangout with pancakes hungarian style savoury (try paprika chicken stew, it's Hortobady actually) and sweet (ricotta and lemon juice!) and simply gorgeous cappuccinos and espressos!
I live in 10 minutes walk from Caplansky's and Krepesz and would have loved to meet you there if you had a moment but I imagine that your meeting timetable is full to bursting point and anyway I am not sure that you enjoy baby company since I will probably have to bring my baby daughter along. Still I do hope you like it in Toronto so maybe next time when you come for a longer holiday? Have a great time! ps Don't spend your energy on Casa Loma (our wannabe Neuschwannstein, totally stripped of anything valuable and empty inside) and the ROM though (too provincial for words) - AGO beats'em all.
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Date: 2011-05-15 11:51 pm (UTC)I live in 10 minutes walk from Caplansky's and Krepesz and would have loved to meet you there if you had a moment but I imagine that your meeting timetable is full to bursting point and anyway I am not sure that you enjoy baby company since I will probably have to bring my baby daughter along. Still I do hope you like it in Toronto so maybe next time when you come for a longer holiday? Have a great time!
ps Don't spend your energy on Casa Loma (our wannabe Neuschwannstein, totally stripped of anything valuable and empty inside) and the ROM though (too provincial for words) - AGO beats'em all.