#1 on everyone's list for top restaurant
dinner treat idea (Steak and lobster)
    
(See specific restaurant choices                  "Port / sherry" style wine
further below on this page)                           18% - 20% alc (74 tawny)

For an alternate sorta thrill, why 
not try a French "coq-au-vin" dinner 
plate chef's choice from the kitchen
on occasion once in a while too eh









fox and fiddle location in toronto's entertainment district downtown. karaoke anyone?




Kelly's landing Bar and Restaurant on front street at bay street 
- across from the Royal Fairmont Hotel

Great food and service - our number 1 recommended such outlet in all toronto 
at present - ta! (ultimate dining gift card holders welcome here too instead)





 
St Louis all day sunday great $5.99 pint of molsons (or other domestic pint) 
plus $5.50 happy hour 3-5PM mon-fri, 9PM-closing. Server team showing is,
as you may have guessed - yes, in new brunswick instead, if youve checked 
around for options locally. Oh well, theres always the hope of a promise
of a discounted perhaps same day flight (one way trip I'm thinking ha ha)
Check out their all you can eat ribs special now on.



generous deal - place was packed full - musta been 100 guests or 
seemed like


Stand-up Comedian Mr. John Pinette's "other half's" 
Irish!! (He's Italian yet raised Irish/Italian" - yay)




Great Irish stew ideas for Pubs

Irish Lamb stew with potato

Irish Pub stew example - beef or lamb
(tabasco as required additionally ta 
and merci equally)



Tasty homemade style beef stew 
recipe for restaurants equally.
serve with hot sauce as always 
too! have tabasco or franks available


Chicken gumbo dish - great 
with hot sauce on the side!!
the most popular brands are here shown below:
     


Do it yourself - pick up some bread, including croissants
(sold individually even maybe) and then head over to the
deli counter and pile on the sliced meats for a do-it-yourself
deli-meats sandwich feast 




thick cuts of meat yield even more satisfying sandwich treats

 
"do it yourself" at home and enjoy also as a bagged lunch idea


Dear kaley cuoco loves
my favourite brand of vodka
too it would appear (I love
the "smirnoff ice" coolers
most of all - and vodka 
with orange juice too - why not!!) 


http://10mostbeautifulwomen.com/kaleycuocofanpage

 



Top each slice with hugely generous
amounts of sauce when serving






Pasta in a tasty marinara sauce and melted
cheese toppings additionally with beef pork or
chicken blended in or heaped with too is a nice
way to treat.






Enjoy pasta with franks hot sauce or sriracha
sauce added on top of the sauce too - cheapest
at dollarama outlets (imported from thailand by dollarama
for their special discounted price offerings)








Creamy Italian chicken marsala
- enuf of the just pasta and
tomato sauce idea of a cheap
copout eh!



Italian spicy crescent ring with ham and melted
cheese


Pasta alfredo - just add meat!!


Spicy Italian sausage pasta dish



Best deal here - 1.2KGS party/family pack tasty hot
italian sausage - just $10 at "Rocco's no frills" on front
street close to st lawrence market - add sliced onion
plus bbq sauce (on special here now) and you're all set!!
Deliciously cooks in its own added oils baked in the oven
20 mins for 4 at a time at 400 degrees 
(suggested single meal serving size)


buy meat cheaper in pckgs of 5 or 10 or more at competitive supermarket outlets
20 - 40 minutes in the oven (turn over once in-between) voila - a feast for cheap!

Brand to try include Maple Lodge Spicy Italian chicken sausage,
Presidents Choice (spicy) Chorizo Pork sausage plus lots more


perk up the taste with some onion and peppers - why not!!


Some Pubs we've seen around have a beautiful selection of the best songs picked
for jukebox playing with a modern machine that offers a huge number of such great
songs from the 70s (bee gees, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Yvonne Elliman, and tons
more) and with the best songs from Van Morrison ("Someone like you" / "Have I told
you lately") Christopher Cross (Arthurs theme, Ride like the wind), Leann rimes, ("Cant
fight the moonlight" - discounted price, plus "Wasted days and wasted nights") Jackie
Evancho, Andy Gibb (even played a George strait song - "Amarillo by mornin!" - nice
country selections equally!) You might even blow a twenty on a jukebox in that case,
and not live to regret it as it gives a shot in the arm our planet hasn't had for just too
bloody long now I say - time to end the abuse with bullshit so-called music we are
subjected to in a bid to make for stupid applied ideations of so-called "equality" in
such regard as human sanity of actual objective merit historically speaking
as applied to music tastes and what have you - for gods sakes I submit with care!
Jackie Evancho's best song performances of traditional great songs were included in
what we found around, - except my most favourite "imaginer" - although not a song
as well known here - check it out at my music appreciation and download site here:
http://musicfromrizzo.com


(Greek dining community section of Toronto
is in Danforth Avenue - east of Broadview)

BEST DAILY FOOD idea PICK

Souvlaki wrap - chicken or beef
our Top favourite daily lunch pick
(along with Italian or Octoberfest
sausage on a bun - alternatingly
between sausage and good
Souvlaki)!



Souvlaki should be served with moist, fresh prepared tender
tasting grilled meat, plus generous on tzatziki as we found it
to be here.
Mondays are for vacationing seeming at some places (closed mondays) aw
(on danforth avenue near chester subway station)



Lotsa fresh sliced firm quality tomato and onion slices with loads of tzatziki


Taste of the danforth festival 2023 hi-lights












Sausage vendor located additionally directly across from the rogers
flagship downtown store at the atrium on bay (next to eaton centre)


Seemingly keeping with some weird idea of a s0-called "Just society"
idea coined by his father - the former PM Pierre trudeau, young Justin
Trudeau seems hell bent on dope joints replacing all former starbucks
locations perhaps, while saying NO to a single bottle of molsons Canadian
beer or johnnys mini 200ml sherry at your more favourite sausage vendor
stand. now how much sanity is there in that either I say of this trudeau era
regime


My favourite drink pick here is johnny bootlegger grape
(sherry style offering 11.8% alc content) Love molsons
beer on-tap only - ice cold!! (wherever theres an Irish pub
suitably staffed with a friendly waitress who knows our
own such music and isn't shy to have it heard on the jukebox
etc)


(recent price at metro grocers)
Should be sold in singles or by the pack
anywhere a person of legal driving age
might be able to do so. refreshment
stands including movie theaters and
parks and street cart vendors plus
every convenience store. dope joints
should be outlawed still and remain so
instead.




Best found Burger joint place here, for
a reasonably just $11.99 deal
(plus tax- complete combo!!)                                  (Halal available)
great decor - king st/seating to enjoy your night
out or daily lunch here!

Side table for mayo, ketchup plus other added fixins. Nice fountain drink albeit in plastic cup


Highlander burger combo special - also available at the danforth location
cheese included along with great tasting too homecut fries plus cold pop



The best tasting drink wherever liquor is to be found
to be had - smirnoff - I even then prefer port wine if
available though!


available by the whole case too on
amazon.com - cheap to get stocked
up on now for parties etc!!



Rabba's sherbourne ave location on front
street. Other variations (cherry version, chocolate
swirl etc just a tad bit more, $2.99 plus tax)



A favourite meal gathering idea for all lovers
of sausage meats as (staple) basic food culturally!

and why not souvlaki too, equally we say!!




BBQ chicken beats greasy salty fried chicken
(use tasty sauce/ bbq paste)


Family treat take-out available cheap at select supermarkets-
shop around to see whos got the best BBQ taste and reasonable price



seasoned appropriately for taste, adding some
cilantro etc in too, "shish/seekh kababs" (beef skewers)
have made it into western (bbq idea) recipe books
equally it would appear) yum! (sliced spanish onion
and firm, yet ripe, red tomato slices too on the side)
plus hot sauce! (tabasco etc)


Lovely idea for steak bites in garlic sauce
as an appetizer or main course with a side
perhaps such as pasta or french fried potato







Comedian Mr. John Pinette decries salt levels in KFC style
chicken offerings


bbq chicken!!



metro on front street used to make it about this good
 

Comedian John Pinette - Salad aint no food!



You'll find Pizza this good only likely at Pizza Nova
(Broadview/Queen), plus their King street maseria
location. maybe also check out pizzaville too

try too a sausage and peppers dish like this!
Have lots of grilled bell pepper slices with
lightly fried onion slices





The "Roy Public House Pub" at queen street east at
logan avenue (just next door the td bank branch)
has butter chicken curries on the menu as
"east ender" curry. Stick to the mild version here!
(mouth on fire having tried their "spicy" version years
back) otherwise quite a nice enuf pick on the menu here.




Tandoori flavour quarter
chicken tray serving IDEA

Click here to view or download/print recipe
(pdf format file)




Need a source for fresh consistently great
tasting (packed with sauce) tender (marinated
even) offering for real success on this one
(tandoori quarter chicken a-la carte).



at carlton street on parliament street in toronto's cabbagetown









best take-out value in downtown area
of toronto



Does your shopping centre food court have a "bourbon street grill" outlet
as of yet? why not press for one if not already so.


A two meat one veggie along with rice or noodle combo at
Bourbon street grill at Eaton Centre (best taste and value
of any competing such offerings out there) is $12.50 plus tax
(just add bbq sauce as shown to the rice) the food otherwise
has lots of flavour and with nicely done tasty sauce in too
(Bourbon Street Grill - eton centre) Lousiana style cajun
foods along with sweet-sour type offerings from abroad.
A family size container offering of this tasty treat goes
for just a twenty dollar bill (tax included) at gerrard
square food court as an outlet there offers similar menu
items here too.




by the slice or by the pound - look for the sign with
reasonable price showing wherever it's to be found


Montreal smoked meat, corned beef & pastrami sandwiches (avec dijon)


The hi-light of my sojourn to the area of Toronto known as "little Italy"
was the discovery of this great western style bar with such nice food as:

Fantastic looking burger and fried potato dish - on my way home I also
went past a familiar looking large church structure of the main Ukrainian
church with this sign posted outside:


$14.69 full combo meal as shown
If you love perogies like a few people I know
or want the taste of ukrainian sausage we
have travelled for these years past, try them
at http://heavenlyperogy.ca or maybe even
drop in and purchase at this church hall.

I never missed "Taste of the danforth"
over some years now (Greek festival
with lotsa reasonably priced tasty
souvlaki - shows generous community
spirit too however it was cancelled due
to red tape when previous mayor tory
was in his "lame period" of term in office


Italian style grilled cheese -
that's the way its unbeatable!!



Generously filled wrap
- Italian style!!

Top idea too for quick lunch - sausage on a bun/croissant!!
My most fav quick food too by far!! (a "good souvlaki" is next)






forget bagels - croissants are a more
tasteful idea!!




located on Queen street at Logan somewhat across from TD
(Served fresh from a warmer in foiled warp - ideal too for theaters
and airport counters at bulk discount from here) (Honey Garlic)
Served with carmelized onions and dijon mustard

The best tasting sliced meats (pckgd) are shown below:
Thai Chili chicken breast plus Kolbassa loaf. Check around!!

   at "food basics" mainly                                     


  



   (Italian fare)
Thick sliced meats are even more satisfying!

 
enjoy hot or mild (regular) flavour











                                         

Kobassa (the real stuff as offered by brands like
Brandt mainly plus maybe Pillers too) is the best
tasting such great quality sausage meat to be found.
Brandt (my fav) also offers a spicy version with
multicultural  appeal as it were, while both have
ham or turkey options for kobassa - tasting similar
yet allowing for non pork preferrers to enjoy kobassa
equally!! Halenda brand seemed to taste more like plain
polish sausage rather than true polish etc kobassa. plain
"Polish sausage" also offered by brandt and Pillers is
not as good a taste as kobassa version shown here in
the brand names (brandt mainly) mentioned and similar
quality where it is to be found equally that is.



Aroma espresso bar offerings:





shown below is my fav way to see such a breakfast served
- even has gourmet toasted rye bread option and generous
cuts of ham slices (lovely sausage if you prefer - or even bacon)





back bacon is a much better way to go over strip bacon
for breakfast sandwich offerings by the way, and ham
should always be an option to replace bacon for a side
offering with breakfast - eggs benedict style is tops!!
Tim's more recently had a mini breakfast sandwich
with back bacon instead. $2.99 Now thats more like it!


French style eggs benedict servings out there! yah!




Paddington's Restaurant and Pub at
St Lawrence Market - by the main entrance


Paddington's menu variety plus all the Guinness/Smirnoff/Wines
and other such ideas as you could possibly handle!! Greek owned - Irish service too


Future Bistro - West just past Spadina
on Bloor (Near the subway station)


Future Bistro's Breakfast eggs combo - lots of choices in omelettes
and more (try the "all day" grillwurst sausage dinner too if you prefer to) Liquor licenced



Popular place at queen street east on parliament. Been here many years
Nice service along the way. Seemingly Italian owned too - ciao folks.



If you are in cabbagetown - visiting or whatever , breakfast at Johnny G's
begins at 7AM - $10.50 as shown coffee not included - soft drink options
available instead too. (Four thin sliced ham or 4 sausage or 4 bacon strips
choices - why not get soft bacon if you prefer bacon for a change)
(daily offerings now also include Indo/Pakistani lunch/dinner fare)



(Popular Owner Terry Papas pictured) famous quote by terry:
"in this neighbourhood, you could buy an Italian specialty coffee
for even five bucks or why not just $2.10 for a regular cup
from a guy who only kinda 'looks Italian' instead" (Terry that is
- ha ha)


Pumpernickles
locations (breakfast and lunch)

(Choice of bacon or sausage)
$7 Daily specials on Breakfast plus check out
their Lunch specials additionally including fish
and chips fridays for Listing of their locations - click here






(Get off at broadview subway station)



Seating available inside - Breakfast as shown $6.50 plus xtras
(pop etc) and tax sausage has an oilier taste than usual


(4egg omelette) ask for the free sweet chili sauce on the side fer
shure with this one

$3.99 for basket of french fried potato or just one dollar for
a few tastier (mexi type) "home fries"


Pastries and other baked goods - freshness varies
- st lawrence cafe - take that instead eh starbucks! ha ha
pick up a fresh made package of apple/rasberry turnovers
just down the street at the metro deli $5.50 fer crissakes
gets you a full pack for your own cafe/ family treat.
why not offer fresh butter tarts sold in packs too around
in stores, and cheaply so.











especially delicious and tender tasting made -
(not overdone) plus lots of curry mash potato
filling plus meats. somewhat similarly available
at esthers soups and more (cumberland terrace)
(Yonge and bloor - west side across from
library) (not nearly as good as at Rusi's however)
prev Sri-lankan popular offering we should adopt
into mainstream I say!


Ikea diner is a place for a snack
or meal while shopping the best in furniture
ideas in certain niche categories that put to
complete shame any competitive ideas we've seen
around otherwise locally in the same category
or price bracket. Plus dishware and lots more.
Our lovely Italian print shown on our tourism
page is something I picked up from Ikea 20 years
ago now. My how time flies. Yet quality ideas endure!!
Fantastic quality complete handyman compact tool
sets (full size basic tools everyone should own
great christmas idea fer shure!!) these can be
a lifesaver when in need. Most of my furniture items
are in fact top model picks from IKea in key areas
such as bedroom.

nicest quality toolkit
gift idea from ikea!!





check out the French onion soup as a great food option at your local bar
I prefer creamy thai soup (metro, longos jefferson loction etc freshly
prepared) for the nuisance of cutting through that gooey cheese now. oh well



Half price calamari special here on wednesdays!! wow!!












seasoned, cooked tender baby potato - yum!











 $3.99 each - the mutual street metro location even offers them to
you cooked with a lovely soft bacon strip wrapped around each one!! - nice!!
(optionally that is - same price) this sausage also available at front street
location, etc






 

check out the "firkin bar " locations around town too
("where have all the flowers gone in this town around??")

www.eurocoalition.org




"Bourbon Street Grill" Unbeatable for taste and sheer value - amazing 
amounts of food in huge selections including spicy beef, garlic or cajun shrimp, 
Bourbon chicken (specialty here) and lots more with great tasting lotsa sides 
to pick from - all fresh made - around ten bucks for a combo - my fav deal here! 
- check for end-of-day specially pre-made combos too - around seven bucks to go!
maybe Also try the food court at Gerrard Square Mall (near pape) for similar
food but with less taste




Nice looking branch with flags of friendship between the
respective countries in addition, also in clear evidence
(lovely TD bank branch location on the danforth near 
the greek tourism area) TD also has the most convenient 
ATM options with multiple choices of currency denominations 
when you make a withdrawal - even just a five dollar bill if
need be (other banks slow to catch up) - and their unlimited 
transaction plans allow too all your debit card use for a 
reasonable monthly fee. In the U.S. too we like citibank too 
mainly for best similar service too hopefully!! TD is top
pick for service with greatest value here in banking we say!



TD did a great job in sponsoring the festivities in the Italian section
on college street during the 2022 festival season celebrations - 
ta and grazie equally folks!! ("second to none" - thanks again to TD
- canada's #1 bank and international too)

 

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