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Ossington Events and Openings
June is a busy month, and here are a few highlights of what’s happening in the week ahead. As always, check our calendar for local events. Telegramme Prints, at 194 Ossington, is hosting Meet the...
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Local Restaurants Offer Summerlicious Specials
Summerlicious reservations just opened, and this annual event, founded when SARS stopped people from visiting Toronto, is still going strong. Participating restaurants will serve prix fixe lunch and/or...
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Ossington Stop Now Open at 1164 Dundas West
The Ossington Stop is soft opening tonight at 1164 Dundas West. We’ve been writing about it for a while, and after all the anticipation, this new comfort food joint is now open and will be open into...
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New Greek Restaurant Mamakas Now Open on Ossington
We now have Greek food on Ossington! Mamakas Taverna is now open at 80 Ossington, and is serving traditional Greek food and drink 6 nights a week. We have been anticipating this opening for many months...
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Ossington Food News – August 2014
Lots of changes going on in the neighborhood’s bars and restaurants, most happening this Fall. We’ve got lots of news that will whet your appetites. Just this summer, we’ve already had two local...
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Yours Truly is closing at the end of September
Yours Truly, the restaurant at 229 Ossington that renovated the old Galaxy Donuts spot (remember them?) announced today that September will be their last month of service and then they will be shutting...
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Toronto Beer Week Events on Ossington
Toronto Beer Week starts later this week and runs from September 12 -20 across the city. This celebration of craft beer extends into our neighborhood at local bars, breweries and restaurants. As part...
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Ossington Restaurant News – Oct. 2014 – (Update Oct 20)
UPDATE: A reader has informed us that Matt Blondin has commented on a BlogTO article that Junk is not what will be at 88 Ossington but he is working on another concept restaurant to open there soon. We...
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Beauty and The Beast Filming on Ossington
Ossington Avenue is being turned into New York City’s Greenwich Village today. The reason? Another TV show is filming on Ossington. This time it’s Showcase and CW TV’s Beauty and the Beast, which stars...
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The neighbourhood has a new sports bar – The Contender
Last night marked the grand opening of a new and anticipated neighbourhood sports bar called The Contender, located at 1166 Dundas West, just to the west of Ossington. It couldn’t have been a better...
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Restaurant Changes on Dundas West
The restaurant scene on Dundas Street west of Ossington is ever expanding, growing and changing. Yes, sadly, we are losing the great The Grove, but we are also gaining many new restaurants, some of...
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Borealia Opens at 59 Ossington
Ossington has a new restaurant and we predict it’s going to get busy. Borealia served it’s first dinner service last night. We were there and we sampled a lot of delicious dishes. The space, at 59...
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2014 in Review: Openings and Closings on Ossington
Ossington continued to grow in 2014, but we also lost some favorites. We’ve always seen Ossington as a microcosm for our city’s culture, and a lot of the bigger trends happened on Ossington: the move...
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Ossington Business Profile #18 – The Saint
The Saint Tavern is one of the anchor restaurants on the Ossington strip. Serving a bacon-heavy brunch and classic contemporary dishes all week long to crowds from across the GTA, The Saint has been...
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Now Open: Hanmoto
Hanmoto, the new snack bar from the men behind Oddseoul, is at 2 Lakeview Avenue just north of Dundas and has been soft open for a few days. We stopped in on Friday evening and sampled some of the...
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Junked Now Open
Junked Food Co is now open and serving creative and tasty snacks. In a former kitchen store at Dundas and Dovercourt, Junked has prime placement for the Dundas West hungry. Located at 1256 Dundas West,...
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Restaurant News – Feb 2015
The Toronto restaurant scene is always changing, and our part of Toronto is no different. We’ve got some information on new and upcoming restaurants on Dundas and Ossington, plus a couple of changes at...
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Hawker Bar Adds 2nd Floor Dining Room
If you’ve ever tried to get into Ossington’s Singapore street food restaurant Hawker Bar on a weekend night, it could be a challenge. But that’s now going to change. Hawker Bar has finally opened their...
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La Cubana opens on Ossington
After much anticipation, La Cubana is finally open! Yes, as of this weekend, we now have a Cuban joint on Ossington. The owners of one of the early restaurants that made the strip famous, DeLux, have...
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We Finally Tried Porter House
Porter House opened in December at 1321 Dundas Street West, former home to Brockton General, and we finally got in last night! Yes, we have tried unsuccessfully a couple of other times to find a seat...
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