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Dangerously inexpensive foods in the T.dot.

 1. Gale's Snack Bar

539 Eastern Ave
Toronto, ON M4M 1C6
Canada

Category: Diners

Neighbourhood: Leslieville

5.0 star rating
  10/14/2011

Forget you, laws of physics: time travel IS possible. All you have to do is step through the rickety front door of Gale's Snack Bar at Eastern and Carlaw and you will be transported to a bygone era. This is a diner through and through, dripping with…More »

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 2. Average Joe's Café

161 Baldwin St
Toronto, ON M5T
Canada

Categories: Bagels, Breakfast & Brunch

Neighbourhood: Kensington Market

4.0 star rating
  9/6/2011

Lurking in the concrete alleys of Toronto, are mysterious and evil forces that hate sleep (let's call them "slumberdaemons") that conspire to rouse you at an ungodly hour. Slumberdaemons care not that it is the weekend, or that your bed is warm, or…More »

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 3. Pita 2 Go

678 College St
Toronto, ON M6G
Canada
(416) 532-3555

Categories: Middle Eastern, Mediterranean

Neighbourhood: Bickford Park

4.0 star rating
  10/4/2011

After a night cavorting on College street, it is only appropriate to cap it off by throwing your digestive system a curveball in the middle of the night. The bright lights of Pita 2 Go beckoned to us at that ungodly hour, like a siren whispering...…More »

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 4. Freshslice Pizza

619 College St
Toronto, ON M6G
Canada
(647) 346-8631

Category: Pizza

Neighbourhoods: Little Italy, Bickford Park

3.0 star rating
  7/14/2011

We're talking RIDICULOUSLY cheap pizza. I was walking past the Wilson 96 next door -- who lets you bring in outside food BTW -- when I noticed a sign promising sub-toonie slices of pizza. "I'm buying," I announced to my kid sister, and we walked into…More »

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 5. Jerk King

1104 Bloor St W
Toronto, ON M6H 1M8
Canada
(416) 531-0300

Category: Ethnic Food

Neighbourhood: Dovercourt

3.0 star rating
  1/11/2012

Need lunch for under a fin? For $4.50 you can get the daily lunch special from his Carribean majesty, the Jerk King. Yesterday (Tuesday) was Stew Chicken and Rice which comes in a square container that weighs about a pound and comes with a teeny…More »

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 6. Ten Mile Aroma

428 Dundas St W
Toronto, ON M5T
Canada
(416) 916-8170

Category: Chinese

Neighbourhoods: Chinatown, Downtown Core

2.0 star rating
  8/16/2011

There should be a circle of Hell reserved for those who pursue cheap booze. It would be manifested by hand-scrawled and barely-literate signage, viciously inebriated derelicts (no less than two in this joint, and a few from our party), the pungent…More »

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