Leslieville Pumps General Store and Kitchen (aka The Pumps) is a place that needs little introduction. Located on Toronto’s lower eastside, the Flom brothers have been at the forefront of The 6ix’s BBQ scene for over a decade. Growing out of their humble beginnings as a gas station and evolving into a general store &…
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Cantanhede O Bairradino ~ 662 Lansdowne Ave ~ (416) 531-6912
It’s July 1st and we’re looking at Canada Day through a much different lens this year. This day always takes the Toronto Food Blog back to a semi-legendary food memory from the pre-blog days that goes a little something like this… When my wife and I first moved in together, we lucked into an enormous…
The BarBQ Factory ~ 1559 O’Connor Dr ~ (647) 352-1979
There’s a lot of really good stuff going on at The BarBQ Factory. This Texas-style BBQ joint is hidden away in a strip mall in the Bermondsy/Topham Park neighbourhood of East York. These guys are smoking-up some absolute classics, without the downtown price-tag. Brought to you by the same folks as Barsa Taberna by the…
Summer Pop-Up Edition ~ Art of BBQ ~ 320 Queen St E
Happy Canada Day!!! Was walking through Moss Park on my lunch-hour recently. Just west of Parliament, on the north side of Queen, came a across a flurry of homemade signs pointing me to Art of BBQ, a new summer pop-up at the back of an empty lot. I was equally hungry and intrigued. Spoiler alert……
Wok & Roast Chinese BBQ Restaurant ~ 349 Broadview Ave ~ (416) 461-3811
When my favourite Chinese BBQ restaurant in the city (Ka Ka Lucky) burned down this summer, I was in shock. Sure, some of it had to do with the fact that I was eating there at the time. The aftermath left a gaping hole in my lunchtime routine. Then when Kom Jug Yuen closed-up shop…
Ka Ka Lucky Seafood BBQ – 349 Broadview Ave – (416) 461-3811
Happy 2012, Toronto Food Blog. This holiday season has been full of great eatin’, but I am looking forward to returning to the once-a-day mission of finding some of the city’s best eats. What better place to start then than with our local, Chinatown East lunch-hour go-to? Recommended by Blair Phillips, tried (numerous times) by the MIJO sales team,…
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