christiesplits
Senior Member
Great to see! There is a gaping lack of Danforth ice cream options between Pape and Woodbine.
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Great to see! There is a gaping lack of Danforth ice cream options between Pape and Woodbine.
Northern Light
Superstar
There is actually an icecream place west of Woodbine, just off Danforth, on Woodmount, which actually serves Kawartha Dairy.
The knock would be limited hours/seasonal closure.
Richard White
Senior Member
It is days like this that I miss St. Clair Ice Cream.
Personally though I prefer Summers in Yorkville.
Northern Light
Superstar
Richard White
Senior Member
Oddly enough I live near there, have gone past here several thousand times but never seen it. Will need to try it out.
Johnny Au
Senior Member
Ohyo Spree at Yonge and Gerrard across from Concord Sky on March 27, 2024:
It competes with Octo Zone located on Yonge between Dundas and Shuter.
It competes with Octo Zone located on Yonge between Dundas and Shuter.
rdaner
Senior Member
Just an industry note from Retail Insider interview with RioCan: developers in Canada are finding it increasingly difficult to make numbers work for single storey, commercial only plazas. Need mixed use to make it work.
Richard White
Senior Member
What is up with all these Asian snack and gift shops? First Sukoshi Mart and now Octo Zone.
AlbertC
Superstar
Correlating with the influx of demographics. Many of the condo tenants scattered through downtown but often concentrated around the Bay and Yonge corridors are students of U of T or TMU. Or young adults who moved from the suburbs or elsewhere and now live downtown to be closer to work or whatever.
Johnny Au
Senior Member
Don't forget that Octo Zone and Ohyo Spree (and similar Japanese-style merchandiser arcades) are also popular with East Asian tourists visiting Toronto, hence all the signage in Chinese characters (though with some Hiragana and Katakana on the toys' packaging as many of the toys are from popular Japanese media franchises). Plenty come for the plush toys and/or the figurines.
rdaner
Senior Member
And not just East Asians as these products are popular with everyone. For example I bought one of those really big, obnoxious stuffed characters as a key chain finder.
Towered
Senior Member
I don't get that mentality. You travel all the way to another continent to a totally different culture...only to seek out stuff that's commonly seen back home? That makes no sense to me. When I travel abroad, the very last thing I want to see is something typically Canadian. I want to immerse myself in a culture I'm not familiar with.
AlbertC
Superstar
Richard White
Senior Member
Clearly @Towered won't be ordering coffee from the Tim Hortons locations in South Korea or the UK.
I plan to visit the London, UK Tims in July. Wish me luck!
