It’s been two months and I’m gradually settling into my new home located in my old neighbourhood: downtown Toronto’s best village-within-a-city, Kensington Market. (By the way, this downsized version of my former Kensington house looks, said a friend recently on staring speechless at my chandelier/mirror/and cherub-bedecked living room, “a lot like New Orleans.”)
After almost 30 years of living in the heart of Kensington, I misguidedly left in 2005 in search of what I then hoped would be a more peaceful, serene, semi-rural life in Stratford, Ont. Erratic VIA rail service, lack of diversity, the 401, isolation, snow and other bad things I couldn’t change have brought me back to the Big Smoke – more specifically to the feisty, colourful, never-dull Market, this edgy hub of ethnic food, motley crew of eccentric people and, most recently, home of three fantastic food finds.
See an earlier blog for my raves about the new butcher Sanagan’s in the former location of Max Meats on Baldwin St. His chicken and filet mignon (not usually my favourite cut of beef but superlative here) are my new addictions. Read more…