http://blog.chrisshepherd.net babblings! Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:11:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 In “sort of order” but the top 5 are all amazing; Crema - 3079 Dundas Street West Hank’s - 9 Church Ezra Pound - 238 Dupont Cherry Bomb - 79 Roncesvalles Saving Gigi - 859 Bloor Street West The Common - 1071 College Jet Fuel - 519 Parliament Caffe Brasiliano - 849 Dundas West Le Gourmand - Spadina south ... http://blog.chrisshepherd.net/index.php?p=37 I have a favourite eatery that’s nestled amongst the modest homes of what could be considered the Junction East neighborhood. Yasi’s Place is situated on the south east corner of Wallace and Campbell. For a few years I’d pass by the vacant building admiring the “Comic Books", “School Supplies” and “Cigarettes” ... http://blog.chrisshepherd.net/index.php?p=36 While I breath in with optimism about our “neighborhood", I have to exhale with slight dispointment at the new coffee place on Bloor east of Lansdowne which opened a few months back. Holy Oak is cool, the decor is suitably comfortable, the service folks are very nice, but the coffee ... http://blog.chrisshepherd.net/index.php?p=35 Gone are my heavy boozing days. Don’t get me wrong, I still indulge in a few too many drinks now and again but rarely do those sessions leave me with a hangover or some weird forgotten wake of carnage where I wake up in my clothes. That said I am ... http://blog.chrisshepherd.net/index.php?p=34