evandyk
Senior Member
He tries to make it sound like it's this casual spot that anyone can just walk in and have some pizza, but that is probably the most expensive pizza in the city!
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Restaurant Comings & Goings
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Mihairokov
Senior Member
It's TorontoLife. If they could institute an annual salary requirement to read their swill i'm sure they would.
christiesplits
Senior Member
Ascari Enoteca, a well known Italian restaurant in Leslieville, is closing its doors.
www.yourcitywithin.com
Popular Italian restaurant forced to close, leaving Toronto diners shocked and saddened - YourCityWithIN.com
A hugely popular Italian restaurant that’s been serving patrons in Toronto’s east end for more than 14 years has been forced to close–but the owner hopes it’s not the end for the beloved eatery. News about Ascari Enoteca’s–part of the Ascari Hospitality Group–closure hit local Facebook groups...
www.yourcitywithin.com
Admiral Beez
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Toronto Life used to be much more interesting. Back when I subscribed pre-Covid I would first read their Urban Decoder section, where they’d introduce the readers to interesting areas or buildings. Now I occasionally read it for free through the TPL’s PressReader app and find the flood of ads for private schools and reviews of pricey restaurants that offer tiny entrees entirely out of touch, to me anyway. There’s more to life in Toronto than niche and expensive restaurants. This downtowner’s favourite spots? $12 breakfast (incl. tea and OJ) at the Golden Diner near Maple Leaf Gardens, a walk to the Saturday market at the Brickworks.
bAuHaUs
Active Member
OCHE brings a pub and play social gaming experience to Toronto
retail-insider.com
OCHE brings a pub and play social gaming experience to Toronto
OCHE is creating a vibrant hub that blends community, competition, and connection.
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artyboy123
Senior Member
Toronto Reservations — Lunch Lady
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Grand opening to public is toward end of June! Located on Ossington!
artyboy123
Senior Member
man these eatertainment shop are just another medicore game and pricey food and drinks!OCHE brings a pub and play social gaming experience to Toronto
OCHE brings a pub and play social gaming experience to Toronto
OCHE is creating a vibrant hub that blends community, competition, and connection.
evandyk
Senior Member
Great places for corporate events, though!
artyboy123
Senior Member
chain restaurants i love them for corporate event as I plan event with company!
Food that caters to everyone's taste, rotating tap and wide selection of wine and spirits & economy of scale so the per person count is much cheaper!
Typically, open bar settings are charged per head and those chain restaurant like Cactus Club or Earls or Eatertainment have in house planner so they take the headache out of planning!
evandyk
Senior Member
But places like this are much better than restaurants because they have activities as well. Spin is one of the best places in the city for a corporate event.
artyboy123
Senior Member
yup, that true i been to too many corporate events at eatertainment and always remind myself i never go there casually haha! Play the game, eat the food and drink the booze under someone else's dime.
AlbertC
Superstar
I used to like Toronto Life for their investigative long articles on topics such as financial feuds and white collared/real estate crime. But those have been increasingly diminishing in the past few years.
Some of my favourite articles through the years:
Conservatory Group family feud: https://torontolife.com/city/inside-libfeld-4-billion-real-estate-family-feud/
Latner family feud: https://torontolife.com/city/latner-vs-latner/
Bridle Path mortgage scam: https://torontolife.com/city/bridle...nvestigation-blew-open-massive-mortgage-scam/
Forest Hill McMansion wars: https://torontolife.com/city/mcmansion-wars-neighbour-versus-neighbourh-forest-hill/
Fraudster cop stealing inheritance: https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/crooked-cop-dead-man-fraud-robert-konashewych/
Suspected trust fund theft: https://www.pressreader.com/canada/...kJKKOucqOVrIYwiCLgNsxZbKp2qCl2qI9VDtqrBqwu6D_
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Yes! More of this. I'd like to see a deep dive into the apparent incompetence in our cities planning, such as with the Don Valley bike path from the Brickworks to River St, where developers give a lowball bid, commence just enough excavation to make the space unusable (so to drive public pressure), then exclaim “whoopsie, we found something unforeseen”, and then refuse to proceed further while demanding more money over your original bid to finish the job.
txlseries4
Active Member
To add on with the thread's topic, this was an incredible read from a few years ago
Inside the rise and fall of the Buca empire
For years, Buca was the place to go for glitzy, big-ticket nights out. How did the company wind up $35 million in debt?
torontolife.com
artyboy123
Senior Member
Name: FlorinContact: 80 Richmond St. W., florintrattoria.com, @florin.to
Neighbourhood: Financial District
Owners: Turner Hospitality Group (Mother Tongue, Twist, Poppy’s French Bistro)
Chefs: Executive chef Francis Bermejo (Bar Buca) and
chef de cuisine Brian Kang (Don Alfonso, DaNico)
Accessibility: Fully accessible
Florin takes its name from the golden coin once minted in Renaissance-era Florence—a fitting emblem for a trattoria with one foot in Tuscany and the other in Toronto’s Financial District. It’s the latest from Turner Hospitality Group, the small family-run outfit behind Mother Tongue and a string of restaurants near Blue Mountain in Collingwood.