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Yonge & Bloor
Yonge & Bloor is the unofficial dividing line between downtown and midtown Toronto. Bordering Yorkville and south of Rosedale, the intersection isn't much to look at aesthetically and is home to a wide range of fast food restaurants, pubs and late night eats. It was once home to the Uptown theatre but movie goers now frequent the Varsity in the nearby Manulife Centre at Bloor and Bay.
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7 West / Restaurants
Client meeting or romantic evening, 4pm or 4am, I find myself returning time and again to a little Toronto hideaway known as 7 West. Located at (you might have guesed) 7...
Aji Sai (Yonge & Bloor) / Restaurants
Aji Sai on Yonge St. is the second branch of the popular AYCE sushi mini-chain. The atmosphere at this location isn't quite as good as the one at Queen and...
Balzac's (Toronto Reference Library) / Cafes
Balzac's Coffee at the Toronto Reference Library has finally opened, allowing knowledge-seeking scholars to satiate their coffee cravings. Or just people in the area looking for good espresso. Whatever. This...
Bay Street Video / Services
Bay Street Video is tucked away between an optician and a Tim Horton's, and at the end of an inconspicuous corridor. It's a genuine cinematic treasure trove. It's the definitive...
Big Smoke Burger (Yonge & Bloor) / Restaurants
The Craft Burger just north of Bloor on Yonge (across from the Reference Library) is one of three Craft Burger locations in Toronto. Read our review of the King St....
Bonga Buldak / Restaurants
Bonga Buldak is the self-proclaimed "Home of Hot Taste" which for passerbys on Yonge St. means spiced up Korean food including soups and rice dishes....
Bulk Mine / Grocery Stores
Bulk Mine usually draws me in under the pretense that I'm there to pick up some spices or nuts, but I usually leave with something to satiate my sweet tooth....
Camros Organic Eatery / Restaurants
Camros Organic Eatery has been winning rave reviews for their entire menu of vegan, organic, gluten free eats. A bustling lunch spot near Yonge and Bloor, the smallish restaurants menu...
Capitano Burgers & Gelato / Restaurants
Capitano Burgers and Gelato opened up about a week ago in Basha's former home. I'm told that the interior hasn't changed much, retaining a look that almost approximates an airport...
Crema Coffee (Bloor St.) / Cafes
Crema, at Yonge and Bloor is in an area all on its own (in terms of artisanal coffee shops). The recently-opened cafe is Crema's second location (the original is in...
Dumpling Queen (Yonge St.) / Restaurants
Dumpling Queen opened up earlier this year as one of the few dumpling spots in the Yonge & Bloor area (aside from the classic Dynasty Restaurant in Yorkville). They may...
Falafel House / Restaurants
Falafel House, now at 760 Yonge Street, makes the same delicious falafel as they used to in their former location at Roy Square....
Florida Jacks / Fitness Clubs
Florida Jacks is a tiny door tucked between Sunrise Records and the Burgundy Bar on the south side of the Bloor/Yonge intersection. But head on up the narrow staircase and...
Focaccia / Restaurants
Focaccia Restaurant on Hayden Street serves fresh Italian food including scrumptious risotto and calamari. ...
Hana Korean Cuisine / Restaurants
Hana is an overlooked Korean restaurant on Yonge St. that is so overlooked there's no listing for it in Google!...
Hayden Lunch House / Restaurants
Hayden Lunch House, on the take-out-heavy stretch of Hayden Street between Yonge and Church, serves the quintessential staples of Middle Eastern street food. Though few things compare to the addictive...
Holt's Gourmet / Restaurants
Holt's Gourmet is found in the bowels of the Holt Renfrew building on Bloor St. Despite its subterranean location, the quick service spot is usually packed with ladies who lunch...
Home of Hot Taste (Yonge St.) / Restaurants
Home of Hot Taste on Yonge Street is revered for its "blazing fire chicken." The huge plate arrives sizzling and is said to pack quite the punch, though some have...
Hue's Kitchen / Restaurants
Hue's Kitchen is the kind of place I used to love, back when I had just started hanging out in Toronto, and still thought that Yonge and Bloor was the...
Ichiriki / Restaurants
Ichiriki is a popular Japanese restaurant located at the base of the IBM building near Bloor and Church....
Josephson Opticians (Bloor St.) / Fashion Stores
Josephson Opticians has 6 locations around Toronto, including their flagship at Bloor and Bay. With over 75 years of experience in the industry, the company knows their eyewear. You'll find...
King Palace / Restaurants
A favourite among Toronto taxi drivers, King Palace serves up good and cheap Pakistani and Indian food. Here's hoping the encroaching condo development doesn't shut 'em down. ...
Kitchen & Glass Place / Design Stores
The Kitchen & Glass Place just north of Bloor on Yonge stocks a selection of kitchen supplies and glassware....
Korean Grill House / Restaurants
The Korean Grill House has been winning fans with its cook-it-yourself, all-you-can-eat grill. $12.95 gets unlimited pork, chicken, beef ribs, ox tongue, ox liver, salmon, squid and fish fillet. The...
L'Express / Restaurants
L'Express is the accelerated subset of the Bloor Street Diner. Think specialty coffees, pastries, and wraps to go....
La Mexicana / Restaurants
La Mexicana is a fairly typical Toronto Mexican restaurant located across from the Toronto Reference Library near Yonge and Bloor....
Lee Chen Asian Diner / Restaurants
Lee Chen Asian Diner feels like Asia done Western-style and is a convenient spot to grab good-sized portions of Chinese chow near Yonge and Bloor. When we arrive at 8pm,...
Maggie's (Charles St.) / Restaurants
Maggie's (Charles St.) is a popular weekend brunch spot near Yonge and Bloor. The menu has all the typical Sunsay noontime fare including eggs, bacon, and French toast. Maggie's is...
Marriott Bloor Yorkville / Hotels
The Marriott Bloor-Yorkville has made some renovations in recent years but it still does little to distinguish itself from the other hotel options in the Yorkville area....
Masa Sushi / Restaurants
Masa Sushi is a Japanese restaurant on Charles St. that's most famous for its teppanyaki tables all you can eat lunch and dinner specials....
Na Siam / Restaurants
Na Siam continues the tradition of a Thai restaurant calling 730 Yonge St. home. Many will remember this as the location of the "bigger and more expensive" Green Mango. Like...
Natural Sushi / Restaurants
Natural Sushi is a non-descript sushi restaurant on Yonge St. just south of Bloor....
Oja / Restaurants
Oja is a narrow Korean restaurant on Yonge that tends to get the overflow crowd from Spring Rolls next door....
Okonomi House / Restaurants
Okonomi House is not a sushi restaurant. But inside this authentic looking Japanese restaurant near Yonge and Bloor are expertly prepared meat, chicken and seafood entrees....
Panorama Lounge / Restaurants
Panorama Lounge is where to go for some of the best views from midtown Toronto. Located on the 51st floor of the ManuLife Centre at Yonge and Bloor, Panorama dishes...
Peridot / Restaurants
Peridot has those really annoying radio commercials where two people debate how to pronounce the name of the restaurant. Oh, well. The good news is that the place isn't nearly...
Propaganda / Design Stores
Filled with goodies from local designers (jewelery, clothes, shoes, toys, kitsch and literature), Propaganda's holding its own in the thick of Yonge Street as a great boutique of fun stuff....
Real Fruit / Cafes
Real Fruit bubble tea house offers that extra touch. When I order a rose-flavoured bubble tea from Real Fruit, I receive a little something extra: a fragrant cluster of pink...
SLAB Burgers / Restaurants
SLAB Burgers near Charles and Bay promises fresh, natural burgers with all beef patties made in house daily. The menu includes cheese, bacon, chicken and veggie options as well as...
Spotted Dick / Restaurants
The Spotted Dick is the English Pub with the funny name. Found near Bloor and Church, this subterranean pub serves plenty of standard pub fare but a visit wouldn't be...
Spring Rolls / Restaurants
Spring Rolls is one of the best or worst Thai influenced restaurants in Toronto depending on who you ask. While the food might be reasonable priced and plentiful; the taste...
Star Anise / Restaurants
Star Anise has assumed the location of the long-standing Indochine around the corner from the Toronto Reference Library. The menu? It doesn't stray too far from its former tenant. Plenty...
Sunrise Records / Services
Sunrise Records is one of the few remaining music store chains operating in Ontario. With about a dozen stores throughout the province their most well known Toronto location is probably...
Sushi Club / Restaurants
Sushi Club perseveres as a go to sushi restaurant behind the Manulife Centre on Charles St. There are $6.99 lunch special daily and a takeout and delivery menu starring all...
Suski Biryani House / Restaurants
Suski Biryani House, known to most of us as simply the Biryani House used to be in Roy Square before it was forced to move to Hayden Street. Despite the...
Tasty Asian Cuisine / Restaurants
Tasty Asian Cuisine offers Chinese and Thai Cuisine. Their fried rice, noodles, soups, and other Asian specialties sell for pretty reasonable prices, with options like Cantonese noodles with shrimp, and...
Thai-alicious / Restaurants
Thai-alicious offer cheap Thai for take-out or eat in near Yonge and Bloor....
The Bloor Street Diner / Restaurants
Don't let Bloor Street Diner's swank more-wine-bar-than-diner ambiance fool you; it can run with the big boys when it comes to good homestyle cookin'. Diner staples like apple grilled cheese...
The Brass Rail / Services
The Brass Rail doesn't get its name from a stripper's pole, but actually predates this obligatory accessory to the exotic dancer's act. It remains in full garish vigor within walking...
Tokyo Kitchen / Restaurants
Tokyo Kitchen is an intimate Japanese restaurant near Yonge and Bloor. This place is more about traditional cooked Japanese dishes rather than sushi (though they have that too), listing chicken...
Top Tea (Yonge St.) / Cafes
Top Tea is a cozy little bubble tea shop right by Yonge and Bloor. With free WiFi and special discounts for students, this shop offers bubble teas in a whole...
Vapor Central / Cafes
Vapor Central is Toronto's premier pot friendly establishment. Found on the second floor of a building on Yonge St. between Wellesley and Bloor, Vapor Central offers a safe and friendly...
VEDA Fine Indian Takeout / Restaurants
In less than one year, VEDA has managed to start a trend in fashionable Yorkville that is quickly spreading beyond the district. What is it? Fine Indian Takeout. Sitting...
Wish / Restaurants
Wish is at once peaceful and full of energy. Located at 3 Charles Street, it's just a few doors west of the ever busy, always bustling, Yonge Street. Its warm...
WOW Sushi / Restaurants
WOW Sushi adds to the extensive number of sushi options on Charles Street. This place, just west of Yonge Street, was founded by two brothers who, following the advice of...
Zyng Asian Grill / Restaurants
Zyng has been on Yonge St. south of Bloor for what seems like ages. In recent years, this place has received little fan fare but on a cold winter's day...
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- Baldwin Village
- Bayview and Leaside
- Beaches
- Bloor West Village
- Bloorcourt
- Bloordale Village
- Cabbagetown
- Chinatown
- Church Wellesley Village
- Corktown
- Corso Italia
- Danforth
- Distillery District
- Dundas West
- East Chinatown
- Eglinton West
- Etobicoke
- Financial District
- Forest Hill Village
- Harbourfront
- Junction
- Junction Triangle
- Kensington Market
- King East
- King West
- Koreatown
- Leslieville
- Liberty Village
- Little India
- Little Italy
- Markham
- Mount Pleasant
- North York
- Ossington
- Pape Village
- Parkdale
- Port Lands
- Queen West
- Richmond Hill
- Riverside
- Roncesvalles Village
- Rosedale
- Scarborough
- St. Clair West
- St. Lawrence Market
- Upper Beaches
- West Queen West
- Yonge & Bloor
- Yonge & College
- Yonge & Dundas
- Yonge & Eglinton
- Yonge & St. Clair
- Yonge & Wellesley
- Yorkville
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