Past Toronto restaurants
Hello Tumblrverse, I have made rare appearances on this blog for the past few years but I will contribute more as I have lots to say. Mostly food-related but also about city-living, pop culture and life in general. Today, I take advantage that I stayed home nursing a cold to reminisce about my fair city's culinary history by remembering some of the defunct restaurants I had the priviledge of frequenting in my 25 years and a half in the 416, all of them, being now defunct. I do not know all the addresses but I well remember where they were, the types of food served, my station inlife at the time and specific food memories linked to people or activities.
If anyone has specific memories related to any of the places I will mention, feel free to chip in.
So here are my restaurant memories in no specific order, restaurants and food shops that were around between June 1994 to January 2020 and have closed for good.
Kapatos bakery - Danforth Avenue
The Tulip Steakhouse - Queen East, Leslieville Oliver's - Yonge and Eglinton
Max Bistro -Yonge and Lawrence
Spoon -King West
Fred's not here and The Red Tomato - King West
Milano- King West
Mistral -Yonge and Saint Clair
Blue Begonia -Rosedale
Didier- Mount Pleasant (amazing soufflé!)
Vines Wine Bar - Wellington street east (St Lawence Market area)
Penrose Fish and Chips - Mount Pleasant
Café des Artistes - Yorkville
Coffee Mill - Yorkville
Chubby Subby (submarine sandwiches like MIke's in Quebec) -Yorkville
Just Desserts (all locations)
Desserts Desserts - Yonge and Eglinton
Daily Planet - Yonge and Eglinton (became the Summit House in the late 90s)
Friendly Greek - Yonge and Eglinton
Matignon - Yorkville area, St Nicholas street Segovia (spanish) - St Nicholas street
Camarra's (famous pizzeria) - Dufferin south of Lawrence
Coleman's deli - Lawrence and Bathurst L'Europe (hungarian) - Bloor street west in the Annex
Csarda(hungarian) - Bloor street west in the Annex
Pan on the Danforth - Danforth Avenue, Greektown
Ouzeri - Danforth Avenue - Greektown
Mystery Pizza - Leslieville/Scarborough
Spot Coffee - Bremner Avenue
Crush Wine Bar - King West
Canary Restaurant - Cherry Street
Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar - St Lawrence Market Town and Country Buffet - Harbourfront Nataraj (Indian) - The Annex
Indian Rice Factory - Dupont Street
Agra (Indian) - North York
Lee Garden - Chinatown (there ued to be one in Yorkville as well)
Yitz's deli - Eglinton West
China House - Eglinton West
Hoo Wah Garden tavern - Dufferin near Castlefield
Sky Ranch (argentinian) - Dufferin and Roselawn
Arepa Café (venezuelan) - Queen West
Katz's deli - Yorkdale area
Eden Chinese Food (Gerrard street east)
Jaipur Grille - Yonge and Davisville
Ed's Warehouse -King West
Ed's Seafood - King West
Café Brussel - Broadview and Danforth, first on Broadview, then in a bigger location on Danforth, at a time the best mussels in Toronto The Host (indian) - Yorkville
Future Bakery - Yonge and St Clair
Senior's Steaks - Yonge and St Clair
His Majesty's Feast - Lakeshore
Barbara Caffé( my first butternut squash agnolotti ever) - Etobicoke
Lick's (my first exposure to "Gourmet" burgers) - all Toronto locations
Onassis Pizza (best homemade tzatziki ever) - Eglinton and Laird
Shopsy's - Front Street
Fisherman's Wharf Lghthouse - Financial District
Steamie's (hotdogs and smoked meat) - good but brief on Mount Pleasant Road
Ginsberg & Wong (deli and Canadian-Chinese) - Village by the Grange, near OCAD.
Lisa Marie - Queen West
Spacco - Yonge and Eglinton
The above list is made of restaurants I have been to and therefore, does nt include places I have not been to like Susur or Bistro 990. What are your Toronto memories of defunct restaurants?