The best bulk food store in Toronto is not the Bulk Barn. Let me just put that out there. Sure, the Bulk Barn might have the most locations, a familiar sign and a massive inventory of bulk products. But when it comes to friendly neighbourhood service, hunting down hard to find imported products and an overall fun shopping experience it's in tough to beat many of the places on this list.

The best AYCE (All You Can Eat) sushi in Toronto revolves around a core assumption: the more the merrier. The more friends you have in your party, the merrier. The more variety in menu items, the merrier. The more time and stomach room at your disposal, the merrier. This may lead many to think that the enjoyment of AYCE sushi is defined by gluttony. I, however, prefer to call it the art of indulgence. I'm hoping I'm not alone here.

Free WiFi access in Toronto should be a lot more common than it is. But with the powers at City Hall uninterested in bridging the digital divide or otherwise undertaking initiatives to increase wireless internet penetration, it's up to individual business owners and non-profit groups like Wireless Toronto to make the internet accessible in more places outside the home.

In the downtown core, free WiFi is particularly spotty no thanks to the presence of Cogeco's $5 an hour OneZone and the lack of free WiFi at many of the major coffee chains. Even a number of popular independents (B Espresso and Manic Coffee to name two) decline to offer the service, instead choosing to focus on what a Manic staffer told me was "the enjoyment of loving coffee."

The best shoe stores in Toronto offer a surprising selection of eco-friendly footwear, minimalist style and outrageous options to please any foot fetish. Prices vary, but expect to find pairs that will keep you light on your feet, instead of in your wallet.

My own smaller-than-average size 5 feet have led me to do a lot of sole searching for that perfect Cinderella fit. Despite all of us sharing a need for this much-loved accessory though, I can do without the snobbery that higher-end boutiques package with their pairs.

The best steakhouses in Toronto have an appeal that go beyond a superb cut of meat that you haven't the resources to buy or the skill to cook to perfection, though it's a good place to start. In the dark ages of Toronto dining - roughly any time from the '30s to the '70s - steakhouses were fine dining, the best places to get a quality meal, and a few of those places still survive, though many others (Le Baron, Cyrano's and, just recently, Bigliardi's) have gone the way of the three martini lunch and the dress code.

The best Italian restaurants in Toronto make for a tasty list. Like most Torontonians, I love my Italian cuisine. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that more than half of the meals I eat out are Italian in nature. In the grand sense, I suspect our communal love originated in the wave of post-war Italian immigration Toronto experienced in the 1950s. More than half a century later, the city's Italian roots - in both a cultural and a culinary capacity - run deep, with Italian eateries in virtually every neighbourhood.