Eat & Drink
In Photos: Taste of the Danforth 2009
The unsettling weekend weather - with the risk of thunderstorms on top of the sweltering humidity - couldn't keep away the crowds at Taste of the Danforth this year. For three days, Danforth Avenue between Broadview and Jones was home to tasty food, live music, silly games, and some pretty good shows.
Authentic Greek and Mediterranean flavours were the star attraction including delicious chicken souvlaki, pork pita, spinach pies, grilled quails, baklava as well as typical event snacks like corn on the cob and popcorn. Vendors from nearly 500 local businesses and restaurants were out in full swing, plating meals for the long lines of hungry festival attendees.
Writing and photos by Ken Yan
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the Ellas lamb chops were AMAZING
The Athena Bakery's Honey Balls are the best thing on the planet. And it's certainly not tatste without a Gyro from Alexandros...
Don't forget the food is just as good there when the Taste of the Danforth festival isn't on. Don't forget to return.
(38,000 people walking east looking for something to eat or do) +
(38,000 people walking west looking for something to eat or do) = Taste of the Danforth human traffic jam
Serano Bakery sells a full Spinach Pie without the line up for $1.50 on Pape Ave. Athena's are better quality but double price. Plus, Athena (as an example) sells a half pie for $2 making $1 profit if you brought 2 half pies. Not complaining but just saying as a customer you're paying more for being at a festival.
I'm always somewhat baffled by certain things about the ToTD, we go, if we are in town, on the off hours because it's basically at the end of our street, I wouldn't go across town for it.
Baffling thing number 1, the best food isn't the greek food, hardly suprising, Toronto's take on Greek food is mostly crap (compared to say Milos in Montreal for one example) and even those places that are normally decent 51 weeks a year either don't officially participate or outsource their tastes to offsite bakeries or caterers. Some of the better tastes this year were the cumbrae roast pork at Globe and the grilled calamari at Mambo.
Baffling thing number 2 - some of the best tastes are the shortest lineups, I'm always baffled to see people line up for 15-20 minutes to get meat on a stick from Terry-O's for example while there was no lineup at all at several nearby stands.
Alexandros is a great place if what you're after is for a surly greek in a dirty t-shirt to swear at you, otherwise go to Messini, everybody else has figured this out...
Don't you mean Waste of The Danforth instead of taste?
Tasty is tasty!!! Them's sum good eats!!!
Oh just enjoy the damned festival or shut up you bunch of pessimistic shit heels..