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ADDRESS: 3 Clarendon Crescent
NEIGHBOURHOOD: Casa Loma
AGENT: Leanne Weld, Royal LePage J&D Division, Brokerage
PRICE: $5,495,000
THE PLACE: Built in 1906, this brick and stone house sits on a double lot on a private road with only six other residences. It’s even a listed heritage property (but don’t worry, the interior isn’t ancient—the home underwent extensive renovations in 1996).
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(Images: Jennifer K. Warren)
The Conservatives are accusing Dalton McGuinty of making desperate political gambits after the Liberals announced that they were rolling out a tax credit earlier than planned. While the Liberals responded that they’re simply attempting to kick-start an economy in need of help, there are hints of desperation in the move (for example, the $150 million price tag that comes with implementing the tax credit early). But at this point in the election cycle it seems that McGuinty is basically damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.
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(Image: Karolyne Ellacott)
Le Kensington Bistro, the second eatery from the owners of Harbord Street’s Loire (one of 2009’s best new restaurants), recently opened in the space that used to house La Palette, the market’s original French bistro (La Palette decamped to Queen Street last year). Owners Sylvain Brissonnet—who spent a decade as the sommelier of Langdon Hall—and Jean-Charles Dupoire—who put in hours at both The Savoy and The Berkeley in London—purchased the spot at the start of the year but were bogged down with lengthy renovations. Brissonnet tells us the pair “really wanted to do something very French” and are keeping the focus on their homeland’s cuisine.
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ADDRESS: 80 Cumberland Street, suite 1703
NEIGHBOURHOOD: Yorkville
AGENT: Eric Glazenberg, Keller Williams Realty
PRICE: $999,900 ($1,049,900 furnished)
THE PLACE: What’s black and white and velvet all over? This sub-penthouse loft in Yorkville’s “The Maxus.”
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The reasons to abandon the overcrowded, overpriced, not-so-livable city are beginning to outnumber the reasons to stay. More and more of us are tempted by the 905 and beyond. Screw Jane Jacobs. We’re outta here
Brian Porter and Carrie Low thought they’d hatched the perfect plan to avoid the eight-lane gridlock they faced every week on their drive to the family cottage in the Kawarthas. Porter, a soft-spoken 41-year-old Toronto firefighter, would arrange his work schedule to be home on Friday. He’d pack the car at noon and pick up his daughters, Lily and Amelia, from daycare shortly after lunch. Then, rather than head from their home in the Beach to pick up Low downtown, he’d drive to a strategic pit stop in Oshawa. Low, a slim 41-year-old redhead, works as a lawyer with RBC in the financial district, her days and nights packed, respectively, with meetings and paperwork. Her role in the escape plan was to get off work early and catch the GO train to Oshawa Station. Often, she’d end up working a pressure-packed day until 5 p.m. anyway, leaving Porter and the girls waiting at the station for hours. In the end they never gained that much time—it could still be a challenge to get to the cottage before nightfall. But at least they’d avoided the worst hours on the DVP and the 401.
Olliffe, the popular Summerhill butcher shop, put out a press release this morning to announce that it was acquiring St. Lawrence Market stalwart The Sausage King effective September 2. The new shop, The Sausage King by Olliffe, will feature gluten- and filler-free handmade sausages, as well as traditionally raised pork, beef and poultry. There will also be sandwiches, salads and other prepared foods. Co-owner and head butcher Ben Gundy will oversee operations at the market, including renovations that the release promises “will bring it up to a similar style and layout aesthetic as its other shop” (if they’re successful, it’ll be something of a departure from the rest of the market). Ark Siniak, the third owner of The Sausage King, will no longer be playing an active role in the new operation, although he’s apparently been working with Gundy over the last two weeks on sausage-related matters.
Olliffe, 1097A Yonge Street, 416-928-0296, olliffe.ca.
(Image: Gizelle Lau)
Back in November 2010, we told you that the owners of the Lakeview Restaurant were planning on going retail in early December with a new shop next door to the hipster late night and brunch staple. As with most new shops and restaurants on the Ossington strip, the opening was delayed, this time for five months. Now, we’re happy to report that the Lakeview Storehouse finally opened last week on May 2.
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One of favourites: the Fords playing football
We’ve been following Doug Ford’s crusade to bring a professional football team to Toronto (sorry, Argos, you didn’t make the cut) because, well, we can’t turn our eyes away. The story has just the right mix of chutzpah and lunacy to grab and hold our attention. The latest news comes from an interview Ford did with The Score’s Brad Gagnon, in which the councillor both insists the National Football League “can’t keep ignoring a market this size” (um, we’re pretty sure it can and pretty much does) and hints that the brass at Rogers has a rather intriguing idea for how to accommodate the extra seating the Rogers Centre would need to, gulp, host the Super Bowl.
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The demolished trailers as seen last week (Image: Gary Campbell)
Last week, diehard butter chicken fans in the east end were startled to discover that Lahore Tikka House’s beloved, albeit “hole in the wall,” trailers were being torn down. We caught up with the management to find out what had happened to one of our fave places in Little India.
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(Image: Jessica Darmanin)
Pizza Gigi reopened suddenly yesterday, much to the delight of hungry neighbourhood residents who have been going through withdrawal (from pizza, of course) for the past three weeks, ever since the shop closed down in connection with allegations of drug trafficking. In the early evening, owner Salvatore “Sammy” Crimi began calling back some of his longtime customers, including 102.1 The Edge radio host Dave “Bookie” Bookman, who soon conveyed the good news to the rest of Toronto.
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(Image: Renée Suen)
After 16 years at the top, Canoe, one of the city’s culinary beacons, closed its doors on New Year’s Day for a renovation. Unlike most restaurants, they actually completed it on schedule. Although we previewed Canoe’s overhauled space during its Winterlicious opening, the Oliver and Bonacini flagship officially relaunched last week with a completed dining room and revamped menu, so we thought we’d take a closer look.
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The Green Room: the more things change, the more they stay the same (Image: John Michael McGrath)
When the Green Room closed down last year after a series of health violations, it was an open question as to when, or even whether, the Annex dive-slash-legend would open again. Well, brace yourselves, Toronto: the old student hangout has reopened, and the city’s new media crowd is all over it. Apparently, the story was broken by a drunken post on Reddit, but OpenFile, BlogTO and Torontoist were on the story by Sunday afternoon. The news exploded on Twitter on Sunday afternoon, because, well, nobody seemed to know what was going on, and excited speculation is pretty much what Twitter is made for.
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A caribou etching adorns the wall near the soapstone bar (Image: Suresh Doss)
Last December we reported that Canoe would be closing up shop for a million-dollar facelift. Unlike most construction projects in the city, the restaurant was remodeled on schedule, and opened last night with insiders reporting (ok, tweeting) its down-to-the-wire progress. We snagged some images at the start of yesterday’s service for this first look at Canoe’s new digs.
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ADDRESS: 103 Thomas Street
NEIGHBOURHOOD: Milton
AGENTS: Bill Goodale, Don Goodale and Brad Miller, Century 21 Miller Real Estate
PRICE: $1,600,000
THE PLACE: Just blocks away from the cookie-cutter homes of Hawthorne Village, sits this classic Victorian pile, built six decades before the world was introduced to the word “ex-urb.” Old Milton’s charming Main Street—yes, the main street’s called Main Street—is just steps away, as is a massive park where the neighbourly visitors all know one another’s names. Renovations have been completed throughout to modernize the kitchen and bathrooms from their 1892 originals.
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