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Absolute Cafe Restaurant Toronto

TORONTO - There are no shortages of places to enjoy baked goods and a cup of java in Toronto. In fact, the burgeoning patisserie culture is almost overwhelming. Now, let's throw Absolute Café Restaurant into the mix. Situated at the corner of Queen and Wineva, Absolute Café apView More

Shop NYLA - Toronto

TORONTO - Located in the heart of Toronto’s affluent Rosedale community lies a fashionista’s paradise, Shop NYLA. Co-owned and operated by Andria Boyd and Christian Saunders, Shop NYLA stands for New York Los Angeles, (although, it is sometimes pronounced as NYE-lah, the feView More

Captain Jack's: Toronto Dive Bar

TORONTO - My friend, Rosemary, is giving me the finger. It’s that wagging finger that cautions you against doing something very, very bad. Something has taken a hold of me. I am suddenly stricken with an evil case of seediness; I can't control it. Resistance is slipping throughView More

How to feed a working girl: PT II (Zoe's)

TORONTO - I, Dee, am a working girl. I took my summer to relax and laze about and travel, but now am back to the grindstone, as they say. I can no longer meet friends and past colleagues for long lunches dressed in flip flops, enjoying a caprese in the middle of the day without aView More

River Rock Cafe

TORONTO - I offered to babysit a friend's children this weekend while they were celebrating their anniversary in Vegas. They have 3 children (ages 10, 8 and 6 (I think), plus I ended up with an extra in there somehow) and live in suburban Georgetown, an hour or (it feels like) moView More

The George Street Diner

TORONTO - “Good morning Mr. Draper,” the waitress says with a light East Coast drawl. “Good morning,” Mr. Draper returns with a sexy-yet-sincere smile. Beat. With a copy of Advertising Age placed underneath his arm, he settles into his favourite booth at the George StreView More

Project: What to feed a working girl, pt. 1

TORONTO - Not that kind of working girl. just the kind of girl who's, at the moment, working, and, generally, starving to death. A conundrum. It's 12:30ish. I have less than 30 minutes before my next meeting - the only not-quite-30 minutes I have free today - and have yet to preView More

High in Toronto: School of Circus Arts

TORONTO - There's that part in movies like cliffhanger where the lead character, likeable despite the careless mistakes he's made to alienate his friends, is closing in on death. He's falling from a precipice or hanging off the edge of a building, with only one chance of survivinView More

Adventures in Daytripping: Mitchell Hospitality

TORONTO - According to the Oxford English Dictionary the word hospitality is described as “the friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guest or strangers. Cranberry Cottage —a bed and breakfast located in Mitchell, Ontario— follows this description to the letView More

The Henderson Jersey Homecoming Tour: celebrating a Canadian moment

TORONTO - I wasn’t alive in 1972, but everyone who remembers September 28, 1972 remembers it like a dream - everyone has their own story. My dad’s grade 12 science teacher became his all-time favourite when he wheeled a small television into the lab so the class could watch tView More