Doors Open Toronto is this weekend. The 2010 edition is once again expected to draw over 250,000 people (read: potentially long line-ups!) to sneak a peak at places not normally open to the public while learning a thing or two about the city's architectural fabric.

Fittingly, architecture is the theme of this year's Door Open and that means there will be a lot to see and do for both the architecture geeks and casual enthusiasts out there. Several venues will have their architects on hand giving tours and answering questions - City Hall's Podium Green Roof, the Brick Works, new community housing at 501 Adelaide St. East, and the TTC Mount Dennis Bus Garage are a few of the most interesting.

King East and the area that surrounds it is a neighbourhood with many faces. St. James Cathedral, the St. Lawrence Market, high end furniture stores, George Brown College and an abundance of loft-style condo buildings are counted among its residents. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that this combination of touristy landmarks and stylist enclaves result in a patio mix that caters to almost everyone.

Here's a list of seven of the best patios in the King East area.

On Wednesday night about 500 people crammed the third floor of the Gardiner Museum for Empty Bowls 2010. The premise: choose one of the hand-crafted ceramic bowls specially made and donated for the event for you to take home, but before you do, fill your bowl at one (or many) of the stations serving up deeply satisfying soup.

Last Sunday I went out to Chef Michael Stadtländer's Eigensinn Farm in Singhampton. I had never been to Singhampton before - but you may have driven through it on your way to Collingwood, Blue Mountain or Wasaga Beach.

Stadtländer is an internationally renowned chef, whose farm-to-table eatery at Eigensinn was 15 years ahead of the locavore movement now taking hold of the city and has been ranked as one of the top ten best restaurants in the world.

On Monday night I went down to the old re-purposed high school that is the FoodShare headquarters for a fun and informative night on how to best get worms to eat your garbage. And those little suckers can EAT.

This past weekend I checked out the first of four Culinary Neighbourhood tours from The Harbourfront Centre. It's safe to say that most everyone appreciates Toronto for its rich multicultural fabric, and when it comes to food that means a whole lot of tasty possibilities.

Saturday's tour took me to Little India and with a group of about 15 fellow Torontonians. Luckily the weather was just finicky enough that we weren't rained (and hailed!) on the whole time.

Our tour was lead by Subbu Chintaluri. He heads up the Gerrard India Bazaar (the Business Improvement Area organization for Little India), which geographically covers the strip of Gerrard from Greenwood to Coxwell.