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Downtown Core Markets

Jen — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:50:31 +0000

Though we're mid-way through summer, I thought I'd do a quick round-up of markets in the downtown Toronto core. There are several in a (roughly) 1km radius of City Hall, which makes it easy to pick up fresh local fruits and produce before work, during the lunch hour, or on a weekend. I've enjoyed ridiculously fragrant peaches, sweet cherries, and intensely flavoured wild blueberries during my numerous excursions to the various surrounding markets. I've also gotten duds too, so when you go, look out for those offering samples - and use your nose.

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Chicago, June 2010

Jen — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:20:26 +0000

Escaping the brouhaha that was the G20 in Toronto, I ran off with Endy to Chicago for an extended weekend. Though our hotel was located just off the shopping Mecca that is the Magnificent Mile, we, of course, hadn't chosen Chicago for its shopping, but rather for its food. After some extensive research, the itinerary was set up and like all my trips, sight-seeing was optional and merely a good way to kill time between meals. I had short-listed 7 restaurants, 3 markets, and a pig butchering demo during our stay, with several optional places (mostly of the drinking variety) to hit if we had time.

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Deals of the Day

Jen — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:30:51 +0000

Some interesting food (and one non-food) deals today: $8 for $16 worth of credit at Wanda’s Pie In The Sky on WagJag.com (I get a referral if you click the link and sign up – let me eat pie!) Except that it has some dorky limitations. Caveat emptor. There’s also 60% off a crèpe + [...]

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Nibbles ‘n’ Notes Around Town

Jen — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:30:43 +0000

I’ll usually post about a good meal or something noteworthy, but sometimes, I just have these tidbits of meals that don’t equal a whole post. I finally hit critical mass on these recently, and so, here are my recent bits of food and news around Toronto. Swirl‘s got a new jar on the menu – [...]

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Leslieville Is Sprouting

Jen — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:33:11 +0000

I took advantage of the recent good weather and snapped some shots of these places around Leslieville on my eating radar. Great Burger Kitchen Opened up at the end of March 2010, touting locally sourced, free-range, and naturally-raised burgers. I’ve got a more detailed post in the works, but in short: the burgers are fine, [...]

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Today’s Food Deals

Jen — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:39 +0000

I mentioned in the last post that there were a bunch of Toronto daily-deal sites that frequently offer discounts on restaurants. Of the five deal sites I check, three are regularly active. The biggest dud so far is the Groupon site. You may see their banner to the right – they’ve been pimping through Google [...]

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It’s A Slow Week

Jen — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:04:51 +0000

After a week of eating a lot, there’s not much to blog about this week, but here are some tid-bits around the city and my kitchen: Izakaya Ju will be opening in unit #3 up at J-Town at the end of the month apparently. Any good? Who knows. But you can get a taste of [...]

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Macaron Vs Macaroon

Jen — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:15:38 +0000

My Wednesday was a bit of a mind-melt. Akin to the mind-melt they had when the earth was at the center of the solar system and some wank named Copernicus was stirring things up. It began with the following Twitter exchange: @CharliesBurgers Received a box of 4 Laduree Macaroons from Paris. The Rolls Royce of [...]

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