Holga's first roll: Tea Pot Chatt

Holga's first roll: Tea Pot Chatt, originally uploaded by stark_core.

414 Queen St W

414 Queen St W, originally uploaded by Kevin Steele.

Sushi2go

sneaky-dees

sneaky-dees, originally uploaded by emomilk.

Interior of Sneaky Dee's at the corner of College and Bathurst.

See also Sneaky Dee's exterior

Lahore Tikka House

IMG_0044.JPG, originally uploaded by Nicholas Gabel.

Perpetually under construction.

IMG_0043.JPG, originally uploaded by Nicholas Gabel.

cafe diplomatico

cafe diplomatico, originally uploaded by pgrevstad.

Riviera Bakery

Riviera Bakery, originally uploaded by Duchamp.

576 College Street Toronto ON M6G1B3
Between Manning and Clinton
(416) 537-9352

A table with a view

A table with a view, originally uploaded by Sifter.

View from the restaurant in the CN Tower.

Note: It's not the CNN Tower. CN stands for Canadian National. But I've seen a lot of people online and off call it the CNN Tower.

Sneaky Dees

Sneaky Dees, originally uploaded by Melsky.

At College and Bathurst. This is a Mexican restaurant (not great, but ok) and bar where a lot of bands play.

See also Sneaky Dee's interior

The Tulip Original Steak House on Queen Street East.

The Tulip, originally uploaded by The Oldie.

The Tulip

1606 Queen E, Toronto ON, M4L1G2

Phone: (416) 469-5797

The Tulip is kind of a Toronto institution - one of those places that has been there forever.

My husband and I went on a long walk from our home in West Toronto to Riverdale, on the east side of the city. First we walked around the Chinatown East area around Gerrard and Broadview, but we didn't really feel like eating Asian food that night so we headed down to Queen Street to Leslieville. There's a bunch of trendy new restaurants there, but I wasn't sure I was cool enough to eat in any of them, let alone that we could afford it. Then we came across the Tulip and I knew where we were eating.

I had read about the Tulip online and decided it was somewhere we should go. It's a traditional steakhouse that's been there for a long time. It has a very casual look to it, more of a diner in appearance than the more opulent surroundings I usually think of in a steakhouse.

Are you a vegetarian? If so, then don't go here. Don't bring your vegetarian friends unless you want to make them miserable. I think even the air has tiny meat particles floating around in it. There's certainly not much on the menu for them. Even the Caesar salad I ordered (3.950 had bacon on it, which I've never seen on a Caesar salad before.

My husband ordered the weekend special, Minced Sirloin with Spanish Sauce (a very reasonable 7.95). His comment: Good, but salty gravy. I ordered the Black Angus New York Cut Sirloin (19.25) It was good. A solid value traditional steak dinner from the 1950s without any bells or whistles I would say.

Service was great. The waiter was attentive but not over attentive. The food came pretty quickly, but not so quick that we thought they had it sitting around in the kitchen under a heat lamp. They brought our check promptly when asked. Best of all, my husband realized he forgot his wallet and when I went back they were already trying to call our house to tell us.

I'm not in a hurry to go back to this place. It's good and I'm glad we went for the experience. But I wasn't dying to go back and try other things on the menu.

It's the sort of place that fills up and has a line to get in, especially at brunch.

It also has a comically bad web page with tons of misspelled words, broken code and images that don't show up. Eggs Bebdict - LOL! They even have a promotional video that's not doing a very good job of promoting their restaurant. I couldn't get the video to play when I clicked on it, so I right clicked on it, chose save target as, and then viewed it on winamp when it downloaded.

We were lucky enough to get a table in the window. These are the stickers in the window from local publications saying it's a good place to eat. The earliest one is from 1995. You can click on the photo to see it larger.

Yes, that is a sex shop across the street, so if your dinner date goes well you can stop there afterwards.

South India Dosa Mahal Window

South India Dosa Mahal Window, originally uploaded by Melsky.

This is a restaurant near Landsdowne and Bloor, a quick walk from my house. Recently they remodeled and put photos of a lot of their dishes in the window, which I like.

You can see Bloor Street reflected in it too.

I reviewed it here: South India Dosa Mahal

Skyline Restaurant

Skyline Restaurant, originally uploaded by Melsky.

Restaurant on Queen Street in Parkdale with a cool sign. A very old style and non-trendy kind of place.

Breakfast Grill

Breakfast Grill, originally uploaded by Melsky.

This is around Queen Street East and Parliment Street. My husband took this photo. I don't get to the East Side of Toronto very often but my husband likes to take walks there.

He ate at this restaurant after taking the photo and said the food was great and inexpensive but the place was crowded, the tables were too close together.

Fran's Restaurant

Fran's Restaurant, originally uploaded by Melsky.

This is a very well known 24 hour diner. The food is OK, pretty typical greasy spoon fare. It's an interesting place to people watch. Dave and I woke up hungry one day at 4 AM and went there and we had fun picking out which people had been up all night vs the ones that got up early. We think they were mostly all nighters.

Cows Stuck in Building

NEWS FLASH, originally uploaded by ANAKi.

This is a restaurant.