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Towered said:
A shout out to Budapest Hungarian Restaurant on Danforth. I finally got to try it recently and the liver dumpling soup and schnitzel were delicious. So nice to have another solid downtown-adjacent schnitzel option. Will definitely go back. Thanks @Richard White
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Most welcome!

I love the food but find it to be very overpriced hence why I rarely go.

I'll be getting the good stuff in under a month.

I'm off to Hungary in June and plan to visit Gerbaud!
 
Richard White said:
Most welcome!

I love the food but find it to be very overpriced hence why I rarely go.

I'll be getting the good stuff in under a month.

I'm off to Hungary in June and plan to visit Gerbaud!
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Now THAT is a friggin’ cafe. I would kill to have something like that in Toronto, but for all of its alleged worldclassness, it’s got nothing on that level. Sigh. I’m jealous - I desperately want to get back to Austria. That’s my true home, and where my soul lives - not this place that I’m trapped in.
 
My in-laws have been in Vienna for the last few weeks, and their photos constantly make me jealous. That said, they've been in Europe all year, so I'm accustomed to that jealous feeling. Vienna (and their last stop, Munich) just has something that most of the other places they've been don't for me.
 
Towered said:
. Sigh. I’m jealous - I desperately want to get back to Austria. That’s my true home, and where my soul lives - not this place that I’m trapped in.
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I really enjoy the core of Vienna. Beautiful architecture and public realm, and more well treed than many older European cities.

The women also find blonde hair quite exotic.. LOL

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For all of that..........the culinary scene is very meat and potatoes. German-influenced......what's a vegetable.........I get the appeal to you in that way..... LOL, but there's very little in the way of foods of thew world.

Don't expect to state your craving for Jamaican Patties, Roti, Tacos, Pad Thai, or Pork Vindaloo while in Vienna.....

Vienna also closes early...............for a man such as yourself for whom the witching hour is just the mid-point of your day.........Vienna is 1/2 asleep by 9pm.........and dead to the world by midnight. (subway closes at midnight Sunday to Thursday; though it is open 24/7 on the weekend)

A further reminder, not all of Vienna is the old centre, this too is Vienna:

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This is more likely in your budget than the City centre.

Just a reminder to keep grass-is-greener syndrome in check.
 
Northern Light said:
Don't expect to state your craving for Jamaican Patties, Roti, Tacos, Pad Thai, or Pork Vindaloo while in Vienna.....

Just a reminder to keep grass-is-greener syndrome in check.
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We like to "grass is greener" around here, but on food specifically there are a handful of cities in the world as good as Toronto, and none that are clearly better.
 
Northern Light said:
I really enjoy the core of Vienna. Beautiful architecture and public realm, and more well treed than many older European cities.

The women also find blonde hair quite exotic.. LOL

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For all of that..........the culinary scene is very meat and potatoes. German-influenced......what's a vegetable.........I get the appeal to you in that way..... LOL, but there's very little in the way of foods of thew world.

Don't expect to state your craving for Jamaican Patties, Roti, Tacos, Pad Thai, or Pork Vindaloo while in Vienna.....

Vienna also closes early...............for a man such as yourself for whom the witching hour is just the mid-point of your day.........Vienna is 1/2 asleep by 9pm.........and dead to the world by midnight. (subway closes at midnight Sunday to Thursday; though it is open 24/7 on the weekend)

A further reminder, not all of Vienna is the old centre, this too is Vienna:

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This is more likely in your budget than the City centre.

Just a reminder to keep grass-is-greener syndrome in check.
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?? There are lots of blondes in Austria 😄

I'm ok with the cuisine there, probably because I often crave it and Toronto simply doesn't offer it, which is honestly surprising. The food is delicious, though obviously not diverse, since Austria has essentially been a monoculture since forever. Last time I was in Vienna (2018 😭), I purposely kept an eye out for an Indian restaurant, but didn't see a single one anywhere, which I was slightly surprised by considering that the city is overrun by tourists more than half the year...

As for the lack of nightlife...it might surprise you, but I'm ok with it! I actually love that Vienna's focus is on daytime art and culture and doesn't have a wild, seedy countercultural underbelly to it, like a place like Berlin in contrast. It's tidy, safe, organized, and well behaved, and I'm good with that. You can never run out of interesting things to do and see there.

Anyway, Austria isn't all about Vienna. If I were to ever move there permanently, my top choices of cities to live in would be Innsbruck, Graz, and Salzburg - Vienna doesn't even crack my top 3 😄
 

Bar Eugenie
opening summer 2025
89 Harbord Street
from Rebekah Bruce & Ronnie Fishman


"It’s owned and operated by chef Rebekah Bruce and general manager Ronnie Fishman, who met during their years working for Alo Food Group. “Ronnie and I connected over the fact that the women in our life are strong, influential and epic,” says Bruce. “We named our restaurant Bar Eugenie because we wanted to give a shout out to Eugénie Brazier, the first chef to ever be awarded six Michelin stars. She’s an OG French chef, but barely anyone has heard of her—likely because she was a woman working in a man’s field.”"

https://www.instagram.com/bar.eugenie/
 

"Burdock fans no longer have to depend on the brewery’s original Bloordale location if they want to throw back a pint or three. After turning the former Sasmart department store in Kensington Market into their brewing space in 2023, the Burdock team has opened a full-service restaurant right next door, on the former site of an iconic market eatery and watering hole."

Art's opinion: the city is really gentrifying! LOL!
 
torontolife.com

This Japanese Italian diner is Leslieville's latest brunch obsession - Toronto Life

Tatsuro’s menu features wafu pasta and a whole section dedicated to shokupan
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“People were just flooding in,” says Lau. “We were not prepared—we didn’t even know this was a brunch-heavy area. But sometimes the universe just opens up.” Tatsuro’s, their Japanese-meets-Italian daytime diner in Leslieville, now has a wait list every weekend as the vintage shopping and stroller crowd jostle for tables piled high with pasta, shokupan toast and Japanese-inspired beverages."

Art's opinion: Looks cool! @AlbertC look like Japanese fusion is another trend taking off! @Northern Light
 

Italian and Japanese cuisines may seem like unlikely companions, but in Japan, a popular fusion style of cooking called itameshi shows just how seamlessly the two can blend. Both culinary traditions prize seasonality, simplicity and respect for ingredients. It’s an ethos Del Frate channels into Radici’s evolving menu.

Though he draws his techniques from Italy and Japan, most of the ingredients he uses are from Canada. Around 70 per cent of Radici’s ingredients are sourced locally, from purveyors like 100km Foods, Tanjo Family Farm, Acadian Sturgeon and Caviar Inc., and St. Lawrence Market vendors.


Art's opinion: Here is exhibtion B for another trend - japanese fusion @AlbertC @Northern Light
 

The sort-of-secret: Adel’s Fatatre, a fast-casual restaurant making feteer mahshey, an Egyptian stuffed pastry
You may have heard of it if: You scour the suburbs looking for hidden gems
But you probably haven’t tried it because: It’s tucked away in a Mississauga plaza

"Adel Saad, a self-taught baker with 40 years of experience, has owned and operated wholesale businesses all over the world, including in Egypt, where he was born and raised. He opened Mary Knight, his first bakery, right out of university. Then, in 2004, Saad and his family moved to South Africa, where he launched St. Karas, a successful cookie factory. “We made over 22 kinds of biscuits as well as baklava and knafeh,” says Saad. “I sold it, but the new owner still retains the name and operations.”
 
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