Categories:
Bakeries,
Coffee & Tea,
Breakfast & Brunch
Neighbourhood: The Annex
Great all-around café. Warm, student-friendly atmosphere invites you to stay a while. East-facing patio is great a great place for a beer (or two or three) in the summer. Cakes are top notch also; they sell out quickly so grab your favourite slice…More »
I always brace myself when places ask for my name, as my double-vee'd handle frequently reduces (white) people to incoherent mutters and near-epileptic spasms. So it was a pleasant surprise when Aroma only moderately butchered my name when taking my…More »
Category:
Coffee & Tea
Neighbourhoods: The Annex, Palmerston, Seaton Village
There's nothing quite like enjoying a coffee with Sarah L while basking in the sun-filled windows of the Green Beanery on the "Best Saturday of 2010." With a privleged position at the southwest corner of Bloor and Bathurst, the Grean Beanery is a…More »
"You are now a regular at Menchie's Frozen Yogurt." If there was a "Tub-o-Lard" badge on the Yelp app, I surely would have earned it, this weekend. I hope they don't start recognizing me there. (Whatever, I'll run it off.)
Menchie's is a wild ride.…More »
If you're ever feeling down, just walk into your closest Guu. The warm reception that greets you as you enter is worth it even if you never get a chance to sample their culinary offerings. But try the food and you'll be doing even better.
This is…More »
Categories:
Coffee & Tea,
Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt
The staff is real friendly at Yoyo's Yogurt Cafe. Unlike their competitors down the street -- where you're pretty much on your own -- at Yoyo's you are greeted as you as soon as you walk in. On my first visit a kindly staffer walked me through the…More »
Category:
Ethnic Food
Neighbourhood: Dovercourt
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 »
I had barely cracked the door open when I was halted by an employee's jovial hollers from the back of the store. There is a weird enthusiasm emanating from the staff of Jamba Juice. I'm not too sure about it.
This was my first experience with what is…More »
Category:
Chicken Wings
Neighbourhood: The Annex
There should be a term for that feeling you get right after walk into a restaurant about to collapse from hunger and place an order with the frenetic intensity of a meth addict, and then, calmed by the inevitability of food, you *then* decide to…More »
Category:
Music Venues
Neighbourhoods: University of Toronto, Downtown Core
Koerner Hall is part of the Royal Conservatory of Music, and as such hosts a variety of different genres and styles of performance. I came here for a WILD performance honouring the work of John Cage[1] and I was blown away by the splendour of this…More »
Categories:
Canadian (New),
Pubs
Neighbourhood: Palmerston
The typical Markham street rigmarole is to start at Victory Café, fail to get a seat and then work your way northward until you end up at The Central. But should you happen to rewarded with a spot on their patio, drink it in, gentle reader. For this…More »
My San Fran Checklist (34)Things I have seen and done and will do again in San Francisco, California. |
First Name Basis (22)Establishments in the GTA with people names. How chummy. |
Not Easily Categorized (18)Some of the weirder or more random things I have reviewed. |
Namaste! (17)Indian restaurants in the city. |
Sammich Showdown (7)Where to go to get killer sangwiches, sammiches, sandos and sandwiches in the city. |
Burger Roll Call (10)Where to find a good steamed ham in Hogtown. |
Queen Street Address (63)Places on Queen street in Toronto. West or east: I don't discriminate. But never, ever, south. |
Places to get crunk in the Teedot (41)If you are looking to shmashed with a capital SHMASH, these places will prove invaluable in your quest. Bars, pubs, clubs and other place to score alcoholic beverages in the city. |
Top Coffee Shops (37)My favourite places to feed my crippling addiction to caffeine. No, I don't have a problem. |
Feeling Crafty (8)Supplies, paper, and craftable goodies for the DIY-elper in the midst of an art attack. Ready those X-acto knives! |
"Welcome to the party. Let's get some pastries."
Loading...
Review votes:
3769 Useful, 4241 Funny, and 3014 Cool
San Francisco, CA
Yelping SinceMarch 2009
Things I Lovelive music, Beck, words, picnics, Queens Of The Stone Age, Radiohead, typography, graphic design, spreadsheets, webcomics, The Simpsons, bowling, espresso, The Mighty Boosh, Stars of the Lid, trivia, pluots, nudity
Find Me InA bowl of chili
My HometownOakville, ON
My Blog Or Website When I'm Not Yelping...When I'm not Yelping...?
Why You Should Read My ReviewsI write them just for you.
My Second Favourite Website The Last Great Book I ReadDiving Bell and the Butterfly
My First ConcertI honestly can't remember. It might have been AC/DC.
My Favourite MovieBeing John Malkovich
My Last Meal On EarthFried Chicken and Ribs at Hadley's
Don't Tell Anyone Else But...I'm about to make things really awkward
Most Recent DiscoveryRacer 5 IPA
Current CrushCold brew coffee