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Burger's Priest vs. Holy Chuck vs. Stockyards
That's my plan if I ever get dragged back to Terroni. Order the seafood pasta, ask for cheese, be rebuffed, whip out my cheese and say "Suck it!"
Once I receive my food I'll do whatever I please with it whether traditional, authentic or not.
We haven't been to Holy Chuck yet but we're really no longer interested in waiting at Burger Priest and prefer the better non-burger food at Stock Yards as we have perfected what we like about the American cheeseburger at home.
The Chickery - Spadina South of Richmond (David Adjey's new casual spot)
http://www.thegridto.com/life/food-drink/the-chickery-the-starbucks-of-fast-food-chicken-joints/
Food Trucks' Food
Tried Toasted Tangerine once last year. Had the pulled chicken slider and the fried ravioli. The pulled chicken slider was fine. No issues with it. The fried ravioli was really good! Including the marinara sauce.
New Q! Stack BBQ
Albeit it was just one visit last year but Memphis Fire in Winona (just outside of Hamilton) was much better than Camp 31 which I went to a handful of times in a month last year and several times a year before. Every time we go by Hamilton or out to Niagara we'll be stopping in at Memphis Fire! I have two things when we hit a BBQ joint, pulled pork and brisket (I don't like ribs) and for Camp 31 while the pulled pork is fine, the sauce isn't my favourite, the brisket is bizarre, usually very dry and deli sliced-like. Weird. I smoked a brisket for the first time last weekend and it was much better than what I've had at Camp 31.
Where's the best fried chicken in the GTA ?
I'm not a big fried chicken fan, particularly eating it the way you have to, but the best fried chicken I've had in Toronto is at Stockyards. I think I've been there five times now over two years and all visits have been consistent, neither under nor over spiced.
beer bars or good beer menus
The new Kensington bar is Thirsty & Miserable. Haven't been yet, will probably go this Saturday.
I've been to Rhino once and I think it's a shithole. I had the single worst pint of Grand River Jubilation Ale ever there. It's usually an awesome beer but it was so muted. Rhino needs to clean it's beer lines regularly.
Castro's in the Beaches. Granite at Mt Pleasant & Eglinton. Victory Cafe (Markham & Bloor). Rebel House (Rosedale). Town Crier (John St), same owners as Sin & Redemption and Village Idiot.
Good wings and good beer
Rebel House near Rosedale subway station does grilled jerk wings. The beer is pretty good, not quite up to snuff as say Volo but it's way better than the usual macro lineups.
Best Burger - Walking distance from Entertainment District
What's wrong with having some surprises in life? :-p
Best Burger - Walking distance from Entertainment District
It's always good advice to avoid karaoke nights anywhere. Audio torture chamber.
As for the port gravy, it's a matter of preference. My girlfriend and I like it. It's different.
Best Burger - Walking distance from Entertainment District
Grindhouse. Located on King at Peter, south west corner, just down the street from the Hilton.
Good burgers and other food. Good craft beers on tap. Never had a bad meal there yet.
416snackbar (review & pics)
Yeah that's the case. For a quick drive by it looks like the windows are papered up.
Lefthanders, how do you eat?
I'm right-handed.
In kitchen, knife in right hand.
Eating, knife in right hand, fork in left hand. No knife, fork/spoon in right hand.
Toronto Brew Pubs?
Granite. Mt Pleasant & Eglinton.
Volo. Yonge & Dundonald (one street north of Wellesley)
Burger Bar. Kensington Market (as far as I know, just one beer, Kensington Ale)
Mill St. Distillery District.
C'est What. Front & Church. Not a brewpub in the classic sense, they don't brew on premise but Durham Brewing does their house brews.)
Can't think of any others. I'm sure someone will. :-)
There are more coming online soon. One in the Junction and one on Ossington.
Kid friendly - Sneaky Dees?
During the day I'm sure it's fine. The evening? Hire a babysitter.
Mini Food Truck Eats Friday, Nov 18, 2011 @ Yonge & Gould
We got there early and at the time there were only Gorilla Cheese, Toasted Tangerine, El Gastrónomo Vagabundo and Caplansky's. I don't know if the other two made it.
We got food from the first three above. At Gorilla Cheese the lumberjack sandwich, at Toasted Tangerine the pulled chicken sliders and toasted ravioli and at EGV the Tom Yum soup. Our favourite was the ravioli followed by a tie between the two sandwiches and at a very far distant finishing, the soup.
The toasted raviloi was very tasty. Good sized ravioli's. Crispy. The cheese filling was good. Would loved to have had some bacon in there. The marinara sauce was very nice. The lumberjack was good, well made though the savoury-sweet combination of the cheese, bacon, apple slices and maple syrup didn't work for me. The GF thought the combo was fine. The chicken slider was good though would have liked a little more sauce. The GF had the soup and thought it was weak compared to Khao San Road's version. Plus she thought it had the worst price for what you get compared to everything else.
All-in-all, a good visit. After seeing all those Eat St episodes I hope Toronto is on the verge of equally what I've seen on the show. I'm still hoping to see some copycat sandwiches like the grilled cheese with mac & cheese, pulled pork and caramelized onions from the Grilled Cheese truck in LA.
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Khao San Road
326 Adelaide St W, Toronto, ON M5V 1P7, CA
Mini Food Truck Eats Friday, Nov 18, 2011 @ Yonge & Gould
http://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2011/11/food_trucks_could_become_a_fixture_at_yonge_gould/
Participating Trucks:
El Gastrónomo Vagabundo
Gorilla Cheese
Blue Donkey
Caplansky's
Cupcake Dinner
Toasted Tangerine
12 McDonald's Menu Items That Failed Spectacularly
The pizza in the link is different than the one available in Canada (at least Toronto) for a period of time. It looked like a traditional North American pizza, maybe six inches or so available in pepperoni and probably a veggie one too with cornmeal on the bottom. It was decent, not great. I'd order it over any of the other food when dragged to McDonald's.
Chicken Wing Prices - RIDICULOUS!!!
While I'll eat dark meat, I don't like the texture as much as white meat.
Now available: Chicago-style deep dish pizza - downtown Toronto
That's been our hesitation on trying the pizza, how unreliable orderit.ca is. For $15 delivery the pizza should be arriving hot and on time, every time. In the summer I'd prefer to do takeout and eat in the park across the street.
Internet Coupon meal experiences please
We've only done one restaurant coupon and that was for Grindhouse. We've been numerous times before the coupons, never had any issues with the food or service. The food has been good and the beer decent.
I'm generally wary of these coupons for restaurants unless we've been to the place and know that it's good. Plus we'll have an inkling if the coupon issuance is a last gasp effort or not.
Project X - At Great Lake Breweries (2nd thursday of Month)
I haven't been yet but you should be able to glean some info from here:
http://www.bartowel.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=4671
Mac & Cheese Take-out Downtown? Ideally in the Financial District?
Oops, I meant Canteen not Luma (never been to Luma yet.)
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Luma
330 King St W, Toronto, ON , CA
Mac & Cheese Take-out Downtown? Ideally in the Financial District?
Luma also has a really nice mac & cheese. The place does do takeout I just don't know what the items available for takeout are.
Gabardine has nice mac & cheese too.
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Luma
330 King St W, Toronto, ON , CA
ISO : Fresh Duck Eggs
At the Longo's ACC location we saw duck eggs amongst the regular eggs. It was a small quantity. Definitely surprised us!
The Burger's Priest - Queen and Coxwell
We went this past weekend. It was my first visit and my spouse's second visit. We got there early ahead of opening and were second in line. Man that place is incredibly tiny! They really need to either move or open a second larger location. There were several larger empty stores nearby...
Anyways I order the double double Jarge-style and the spouse the cheeseburger and fries. The fries were meh. I vetoed the chilli fries as I don't like beans but we'll probably get them next time and I'll pick them out. I liked the burger. It's easily the best fast food burger I've had. Would I line up for an extended period of time for it? No. We were waiting about 10 minutes before opening then the usual amount of time to order and receive our food (probably another 10 minutes or so.) I'm fine with that. I couldn't imagine lining up for 30-60 minutes for a fast food burger, even a really good one.
I wonder how much of an increase in business that little convenience store next door has gotten...
Caplansky's - New Menu!
Yeah, they're nowhere near the glory of the 80% of the Monarch sandwiches I had. The remaining percentage other than two sandwiches were still very good. Damn shame. The restaurant is now closer to me and there's a good beer selection on tap too. *sigh* I really liked the hybrid Texas/Montreal style Zane did back then. It was unique and better than Montreal Smoked Meat, it was Toronto Smoked Meat!
I went recently twice in a span of about two weeks. The first time the sandwich was good, maybe a 7.5/10 (10 equaling the best of the Monarch) and the second visit was a 5. The meat was tougher that time. I always order fatty.
