This Week in Food rounds up the week's food news, restaurants openings and closings, chef movements and upcoming food events in Toronto. Find us here every Friday morning.

OPENINGS & CLOSINGS

• The Oxley at 121 Yorkville Avenue is now open for business offering their own brand of British pub fare.

Market 707 at Dundas and Bathurst is instantly visible for the yellow facade of its vendor's stalls. The various businesses operate out of insulated shipping containers outfitted with fridges, hot plates and whatever else each business requires. The small food court has been known by many names, and was often referred to simply as the Scadding Court Marketplace out of convenience and for its affiliation with the Scadding Court Community Centre.

While the old court was more officially dubbed the Live Local Marketplace, the newer vendors have moved away from that mandate, and more into representing the international flavours of their home countries. There's now a waiting list for future vendors, rapidly transforming Market 707 a hot piece of culinary real estate.

When you're an average Joe standing beside a celebrity, it's easy to understand why you end up being overlooked. This is exactly how Market Village would feel (if malls had feelings). It was originally built in 1990 to emulate the feel and design of country farm barns but has practically always been a small Chinese mall (which arguably renders its original concept irrelevant).

The erection of Pacific Mall in 1997 ended up diminishing this already-obscure shopping centre's significance even further, though it still attracts a steady clientele. These days, the mall complex sustains itself predominantly by drawing on its many restaurants that are located outside the main mall area.

This week on DineSafe, conditional passes were plastered all over the grid. Not even sparing one of its own Toronto a la Cart vendors, inspectors found food temperature troubles and other health and safety violations at plenty of restaurants throughout the city. The beloved Café Polonez in Roncesvalles indeed got the dreaded yellow sign, as did Oishii Japanese (again) on Church and Bairrada Churrasqueira Express on Dundas West.

Here are some of the DineSafe highlights (lowlights) this week.

Everybody loves Sam James. It's the coffee bar without the panini press or the WiFi, where you probably won't get a seat, on a tiny strip of shops on the otherwise retail-barren Harbord Street. But it's become the gold standard for an espresso shot, and a place to bother making the detour up from College or down from Bloor. Even if the avuncular, eponymous Sam isn't behind the counter, you'll likely get your coffee from a barista like him - someone as unflappably casual as Josh Flear, who walks a few feet from the espresso machine to do his profile, the better to keep an eye out for the next unexpected rush.

This Week in Food rounds up the week's food news, restaurants openings and closings, chef movements and upcoming food events in Toronto. Find it here every Friday morning.

OPENINGS & CLOSINGS

• Parkdale just got even sweeter with the announcement that Glory Hole Doughnuts is set to open their first retail location this summer at 1596 Queen Street West.