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I love the colour! I bought a turquoise car recently
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Northern Light
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I love the colour! I bought a turquoise car recently
I didn't know this one came in turquoise:
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Wow, that's an actual thing? I'd probably opt for Fisto instead of Skeletor...
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Northern Light
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Dude got a custom wrap for his car.
fiendishlibrarian
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artyboy123
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If you walk down Gerrard East and smell the unmistakable scent of flaky pastry and parsley liquor, don’t check your GPS—you haven’t been beamed over to London’s east end. You’re in the vicinity of Eastend Pie and Mash, a tiny new British pie and pastry shop with a massive soul.
For chef and owner Davy Love, this isn’t just a business; it’s a comeback story with more layers than his signature crust. A DJ and the mastermind behind Toronto’s legendary Britpop party BlowUp (IYKYK), Love spent the late ’90s and 2000s at the epicentre of Toronto’s Anglophile culture, from starting the Oxford Circus pub in Kensington (at a dangerously young age) to launching popular restaurants including the Bristol Yard and the Bristol.
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Name: ProperContact: 392 Roncesvalles Ave., properfb.com, @proper.to
Neighbourhood: Roncesvalles
Previously: La Cubana
Owner: Michael EdwardsChef: Julien Cawagas (Eataly, Giulietta)Accessibility: Not fully accessible
Roncesvalles local and Proper owner Michael Edwards is new to the restaurant industry, and it shows—but in a good way. From the wishbone chairs he refinished by hand to an all-Italian wine list featuring some of the smallest markups you’ll find in the city, the former entrepreneur and business consultant is leading with as much heart as his head will allow.
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With three trendy establishments to his name already—Yuugi Izakaya, 915 Dupont and Tebasaki Wing House—you may think Jeffrey Chu would be running out of ideas (or at least steam). Instead, Chu, along with his partner Jerry Tsang, went ahead and opened a hotel on a stretch of Bloor Street in the heart of the Annex. “Mirvish Village is returning to its former glory, with dozens of historic buildings being restored and a new urban centre under construction,” says Tsang. “Our team saw an opportunity to contribute to this revival by converting a tired early 1900s brick building into a new destination where travellers can truly live in the community.”
Nomas is a 17-room boutique hotel in a former mixed-use building that the partners acquired back in 2023. “There are many hotels in Toronto, but we wanted to create a boutique experience in central Toronto for the 25-plus crowd, who aren’t interested in major chains but who also don’t want to stay in an Airbnb,” says Jeffrey Chu. “We’re aiming somewhere between the luxury travel market and the budget one.”
https://www.instagram.com/nomas.hotel/ located at (561 Bloor St W, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1Y6)
Nomas is a 17-room boutique hotel in a former mixed-use building that the partners acquired back in 2023. “There are many hotels in Toronto, but we wanted to create a boutique experience in central Toronto for the 25-plus crowd, who aren’t interested in major chains but who also don’t want to stay in an Airbnb,” says Jeffrey Chu. “We’re aiming somewhere between the luxury travel market and the budget one.”
https://www.instagram.com/nomas.hotel/ located at (561 Bloor St W, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1Y6)
artyboy123
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https://torontolife.com/food/cocos-is-closing-for-good-today/.
The day we’ve been dreading has arrived: Coco’s, a beloved Little Italy bakery known for its cable knit lattes and whimsically ornate birthday cakes, will close for good this afternoon.
The bakery’s owners announced on Instagram last November that they hadn’t planned on closing. According to the announcement, their landlord informed them a week before their lease expired that he wouldn’t be renewing it, having previously assured them that Coco’s could stay in its College Street location. The owners continued to invest in the space, adding a new patio and paying for electrical upgrades. The landlord, meanwhile, said he’d decided to give it to his sister, who wants to open a homeopathy clinic.
The day we’ve been dreading has arrived: Coco’s, a beloved Little Italy bakery known for its cable knit lattes and whimsically ornate birthday cakes, will close for good this afternoon.
The bakery’s owners announced on Instagram last November that they hadn’t planned on closing. According to the announcement, their landlord informed them a week before their lease expired that he wouldn’t be renewing it, having previously assured them that Coco’s could stay in its College Street location. The owners continued to invest in the space, adding a new patio and paying for electrical upgrades. The landlord, meanwhile, said he’d decided to give it to his sister, who wants to open a homeopathy clinic.
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Robin Goodfellow (Czehoski, Bar Raval, PrettyUgly, Vela, Harry’s) and his business partner Aldo Pescatore (La Carnita, Sweet Jesus) have had their fingers on the pulse of Toronto’s hospitality scene for more than two decades. Post-pandemic, the two decided to join forces and create a space designed to serve the everyday needs of a neighbourhood.
The Dirty Laundry and Café Gigi open this March and aim to be just that. The dual-personality project takes up the 140-seat indoor-outdoor space on West Queen West that was, until last fall, the second home of Cold Tea. Part café and part bar, it promises something for everyone. “We recognize the need for a super-fun experience, solid food and playful cocktails,” says Goodfellow. “But we’re equally mindful of value. People want to feel good about where they’re spending their time—and their money.”
evandyk
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I noticed that eventually. The $35 omakase lunch looks way more interesting than the winterlicious. Johnny, you should talk your coworkers into that!
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Those are my sexy new wheels, yo.
narduch
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A lot of the packaged goods they sell were already avaliable if you knew where to look. Hell I've seen some of the items in Walmarts or No Frills in areas with a higher concentration of Italian-Canadians. And that isn't even considering bakeries or places like Longos or Fortinos.
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That's certainly true for some of the stuff, though they definitely have a much deeper selection of olive oils and balsamic vinegars and more varieties of dried pasta too.
But that isn't really what's useful about Eataly. Its freshly baked breads, its the Italian Wine section, its some of the cheeses, the fresh pasta is quite good; and it is a handful of fairly obscure items too.
As example, Colatura di Alici is not something easily found in Toronto.