Our family has been eager to dine at Richmond Station for quite a while. The well known downtown Toronto restaurant is one of many we have added to our mental list of places where we can bring our parents for a potentially memorable meal. Coming from the small city of Sydney, Nova Scotia, my Mom […]
Toronto’s Chinatown is home to many delicious restaurants but I’ll be the first to admit that it can be daunting trying to choose where to go and then once you’re in, what to eat. I like to visit the Chinatown restaurants with my Chinese friends because they know EXACTLY what to get and you’d think […]
I have been hooked on sour beer for almost three years. Before that, I didn’t even know that such a thing existed. My introduction occurred one night at Toronto’s Bar Volo, during Zwanze Day, which I now consider a holiday, and since that night, I have gone on many an adventure in search of Lambics, Krieks, […]
A couple years ago when we were filming our ZipCar segment we popped by Aroma Espresso Bar to grab a quick bite. That was my first Aroma experience and I was quite pleased when one opened across the street from us a few months after that first satisfying visit. We’ve since frequented Aroma Espresso for quick […]
One hot and sunny Saturday afternoon we found ourselves with no plans and kids who needed to be outdoors so we decided to explore Queen West and see what new things awaited us. The hubs and I strapped the kids in the double stroller and roamed down the trendy street where we shopped, drank and ate. We […]
Definitive Guide to Craft Beer in Toronto If you are like me, and you always worry that you won’t have enough time to cover every must-visit craft beer destination when travelling to a new city, then you know how difficult it is to map out an efficient beer discovery plan. No matter how hard I try, […]
Keeping up with the brewery scene in Toronto recently is a difficult task. As the craft beer industry has continued its rapid growth in North America, would be brewmasters have been busy. In Ontario, some of the initial players, Great Lakes, Flying Monkeys, and Nickel Brook have achieved widespread distribution at the LCBO, while others, […]
One Saturday in May, we were determined to spend some time outdoors. The weather in Toronto this spring has not exactly been pleasant and after temperatures jumped to the high teens the week before, only to plummet that past weekend, we gave up waiting, bought a TTC Group pass, and made our way to the Bloor West […]
When your grandmother is visiting you from Sri Lanka, there’s only one way to really entertain her – taking her to an elegant English Afternoon Tea! That was my thinking when I invited my grandmother and my parents to join Little Monkey, Baby Boy and I for Afternoon Tea at the Omni King Edward Hotel in downtown […]
Nothing warms the cockles of my heart like a hearty bowl of Ramen in the winter. Ramen has been the popular girl in the food circuit for a good while but it took quite some time for me to really get on board and give a couple of them a try. The main reason for this is […]
