Seldom a week, dare I say a day, goes by without a visit to the absolute bakery. While I know there are other people involved in the baking and selling of delicious baked goods there is seldom a time that I am not greeted by Rajenbran Nageswary. Besides her lovely demeanour and fresh smile, I […]
Jen Cerny and Noni Castonguay are the owners of Stircrazy Catering. While the duo caters a wide variety of parties across the city, it’s their tourtière that is creating a buzz around this time of year. They started making tourtière about 8 years ago. Word of mouth spread and in addition to selling them to […]
Contributed by Duncan Fremlin, Broker RE/MAX Hallmark Realty Ltd. www.morethanahome.ca This isn’t exactly a history of food in Cabbagetown but we have had a few restaurants of note over the years, some great, some not so great. On the low end of the restaurant food chain circa 1972 would be the legendary Norm’s Open […]
Contributed By Kimberly Ezeard. Cranberries is the staple meeting place in Cabbagetown for great food, service and catching up on all the neighbourhood news in a warm, relaxed pub environment that is family friendly. Whether its brunch on the weekend, Sunday night dinner, date night Sat or Monday night wings and beer, you are […]
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For quite some time I watched and the signs went up. Every morning I would get my coffee and see changes going on at the 521 Parliament Street location. “Wonder what this is going to be” people often said. Nobody was sure until the giant pizza ovens arrived. A few months later a funny […]
Contributed by Duncan Fremlin, Broker , RE/MAX Hallmark Realty Ltd., www.morethanahome.ca In my years as a Realtor in downtown neighbourhoods like Cabbagetown (2017 will be my 30th), I’ve had many opportunities to sit with buyers and listen to them dream about their perfect home. Before talking about the number of bedrooms they need, they […]
“It’s amazing how food brings people together” says Sean Brathwaite. Brathwaite is the Market Manager for the Taste of Regent Park, the weekly celebration of food and culture that happened this summer in the new park at Dundas and Sackville. This event brought together an affordable fresh produce market, cooking demonstrations, locally grown veggies and […]
Contributed by Leslie Black of Love Muffin Bakery 3/4 cup vegetable oil ½ cup brown sugar 1/2 cup sugar 1/3 cup almond milk 2 tsp vanilla extract 1 ½ cups flour ½ tsp salt ¾ tsp cinnamon 1 tsp baking soda 1 ½ cups quick-cooking oats ½ cup raisins ½ cup chocolate […]
Contributed by Duncan Fremlin Parliament Street News returns to the food theme and since we’re still wearing poppies for Remembrance Day, it’s a topic that the veterans must think of often. Their hardships had much to do with their war time diet. When I was growing up in the 1950’s, November 11th was […]
