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Left to their own devices
Sat, 09/04/2010 - 09:17
Sometimes, people don’t appreciate a problem until someone devises a solution.
Such forward-thinking innovation is on the menu at a Toronto-area Chili’s Grill & Bar right now. In fact, it is the menu.
Heath Everett, president and franchise owner of the Chili’s on Colossus Dr. in Vaughan, is the proud architect behind what is quite possibly the world’s first left-handed restaurant menu. With his innovation, launched to much acclaim last week, southpaws get to ponder the nachos versus wings debate in an orderly fashion that favours their physical preferences.
In the left-handed version of this critical document, the binding is on the side facing its conventional real estate, and the page order is reversed. “They open it up as a right-handed person would, but it’s opposite,” says Everett, who fastened upon the idea as a first-anniversary attention-grabber to compensate for a lean marketing budget....more
Of sun, summer and sorbet
Thu, 08/26/2010 - 12:58
Something there is about ice cream on a summer day that can charm one’s spirit utterly. And if you happen to own and operate a business or a Toronto restaurant that sells cold refreshment to said charmed spirits, and the lot of you are sweltering under a blazing sun anyway, well, might as well make the most of it.
Such was the thinking behind the recent transformation of Ed’s Real Scoop, a two-location ice cream parlour that set itself up earlier this season as Canada’s first solar-powered ice cream shop.
Building on energy-conservative initiatives that began with a retrofit of in-store lightbulbs (owner Ed Francis replaced his incandescents with longer-lasting compact fluorescents) and the store’s principal ice cream fridge (he switched from an old-style air-cooled to a much more efficient water-cooled system), Francis elected to install solar water heating panels as his latest move to slash energy usage at his 10-year-old business....more
Ex Eats
Mon, 08/23/2010 - 06:44
Ah, the Ex. The sights, the sounds, the scattered pools of vomit. It is the annual punctuation to all things summer and it promises stimulation for every last of Torontonians’ senses. Prominent among the experiences on offer at this colourful urban fair are those that have to do with food. The promise of excess and innovation is powerful here, and the tastes a coaster lover might enjoy between swells are as unexpected as they are varied.
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New’s bright blue, but old is gold
Wed, 08/11/2010 - 07:16
The world crackles all the time with innovation. Every day some newfangled something comes screaming into view, promising to overturn all that preceded it. Yada yada and enough already. Let us not forget the value of that which has stood the test of time.
In that spirit, then, we celebrate some Toronto eating and drinking establishments of longest standing.
Oldest restaurant/diner
The Senator opened in 1948 in a Victoria St. location that had housed a restaurant since 1890. Indeed, the origins of the property can be traced to the earliest records that were kept by the town of York, when it set up humble shop in a residential, working-class neighbourhood east of Yonge St. Actually two restaurants in one,...more