Things are happening again on Ossington and the expansion of the culinary scene continues (these restaurants had their applications in before the new regulations). The restaurant scene expands. . . . → Read More: More Restaurants Opening Soon On Ossington
Ossington broke out into song and dance tonight with the Ossington Blackout Street Party. It was quiet to start, with bars turning off their lights and just having candles and acoustic music. . . . → Read More: The Ossington BlackOut Street Party
If you love Ossington and want to check out all the bars on the street (or a good lot of them) Kat, from Yelp, is organizing a Ossington Pub Crawl. . . . → Read More: The Yelp.ca Ossington Avenue Pub Crawl
On this rainy Tuesday night, the first market of the season, I walked over to check out the vendors. The booths are somewhat scattered throughoutthe northwestern portion of the park near Dundas, but all looked full of fresh organic produce. . . . → Read More: The Trinity Farmers Market
Last week, after going to see Neko Case at Massey Hall, we stopped by Union Restaurant, Teo Paul’s new restaurant mentioned earlier. I hadn’t eaten yet that night and it was late, just after 11pm. . . . → Read More: A late night meal at Union
Last week i wrote a post about the blocking of the opening of Ici Bistro, based on a Toronto Star article which discussed how Joe Pantalone was actively blocking the opening of a restaurant by one of the top chefs in the city, J. P. Challet. . . . → Read More: Joe Pantalone Responds
Joe Pantalone’s reach to shut down and curb entrepreneurship extends farther than Ossington. I learned this morning that he’s also put a stop to another entrepreneur, Jennifer Decourte, who is attempting to open ICI bistro at Harbord and Bathurst area. His excuse: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, my grandmother used to say,” is the reason for blocking a liquor license application. . . . → Read More: It’s not just Ossington – Mr Pantalone is against entrepreneurs.
Having heard it was open I needed to check out the new, long awaited, spot on Ossington – Union Restaurant. I sauntered down on this rainy Tuesday before Canada day to check it out. With the paper not even off the windows and a fresh sheen on still on the furniture, the staff were greeting people and offering wine and cheese, and some items off the menu presented as appetizers. . . . → Read More: Wine & Cheese at Union Restaurant – A preview
The long anticipated Union Restaurant has now opened along Ossington. After Toronto Life gave him a blog to document his process, he only gave them about 6-7 cryptic posts about the progress of the place. Today I learned from Melissa Davis of YDF in her post documenting her visit last night to the new restaurant. . . . → Read More: Union Has Opened!