Granowska’s has presided over the corner of Roncesvalles and Fern for 39 years (Image: Joey deVilla)
On the morning of Thursday, June 13, 1972, after three straight days of baking, Elizabeth Klodas and her mother Maria opened the doors to Granowska’s Bakery on Roncesvalles, which they named after the family bakery they left behind in Poland. “That first day, we sold out in five hours,” she told us. “We were both so happy but then started crying when we realized we had to start baking all over again! We thought we had baked enough to last the weekend!” Now, after nearly 40 years in business, the bakery will be closing its doors for good at the end of the month.
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When brothers Andrés and Arturo Anhalt opened Milagro restaurant on Mercer Street, they did it to offer authentic Mexican cuisine to a city hooked on burritos, nachos and other dishes of the Tex-Mex persuasion. Torontonians, it turned out, were receptive to their ceviches and mole sauces—so much so that a mere three years later, Milagro has opened a second location, on Yonge, north of Lawrence.
