Cool! I'm going to Canada next month on business.

Where's the best place to hang out in Toronto?

That's the best place to hang out in TOronto

Business will be conducted in Concord (that's just the money time, not the fun time).

The Picklebarrel is decent food as is the organ grinder

Or the Legion branch just west of the Bull.

Where, exactly, are you staying? Downtown TO is pretty huge...but it's all connected by subway.

is near the "U" part of the rail line; the lower (southern) side.

...the Holiday Inn tower is right on the edge of Chinatown, and walking distance to everything. It's right near City Hall (which is often used as a sci-fi movie location, as was the case with Resident Evil II), and the Provincial Legislature (Queen's Park, it's called). Queen Street runs East/West the entire width of the city proper, and you can do the whole thing by streetcar. Just hop off anywhere that looks interesting to you.

Spadina is the heart of the garment district, butts up against Chinatown, and is the best North/South walking route next to Yonge Street (Yonge is the world's longest street, by the way). Yonge Street is a little more "commercial" than Spadina, and is a big shopping street.

Wander around on Bay street near Bloor, and check out the neighbourhood Neil Young and Rick James used to busk in (but don't expect to pay less than $60 for lunch n one of the upscale bistros which have popped up since the 80s).

Best dining: Movenpick (Yorkville).

BTW, it is.

possibly the best fish and chips on the planet as well as a killer steak and kidney pie is served at Kingsway Fish and Chips in Bloor West Village, get off the Bloor Subway at Royal York and walk west about 2 blocks. Wonderful cheesecake and coffee at Demetre's 1 block west of the station.

Outstanding Ukrainian and Polish food on Roncesvalles Ave.

Greek food on the Danforth, Portugese on St. Clair. T.O. has it all.

...with his subsidised maritime provinces and their inflated fish shoppe prices.

There's a coastal cabal on that market dammit... you don't see us horning in on Maple SYrup do you?

Is that they have the wherewithall to have it flown in fresh every morning, and they generally buy the pick of the haul.

Best lobster I ever had was in Toronto, at the now defunkt Kwong Chow.

I've eaten fish and chips around the world. Kingsway has it down. Better than anything I ever ate on Granville Island.

at this thread. You might find some ideas over there.

That's a good, chewy pie they do there!

but you'd think in a metropolitan area of 5 million the bar would be raised a bit higher than Pizza Pizza. Although I do appreciate that their signage kind of looks like NDP yard signs.