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Nifty kids clothes boutique Ragamuffin Kids (5475 Spring Garden) closed up shop on Tuesday, less than a year after opening. No word yet about its replacement…More Spring Garden shake-up: Ryan Duffy’s Steak & Seafood (5640 Spring Garden) will be moving at a yet-to-be-determined point in the future, to the former East Side Mario’s space, (1650 […]

If you’re spent the last couple months groggily mourning the loss of lovely Barrington caffeine provider The Mudroom Cafe (1541 Barrington), cheer up: a new cafe, Ciboulette, opened its doors in the former Mudroom space this Monday. The cafe’s co-owned by Craig Flinn (the owner/chef of Chives Canadian Bistro, Ciboulette’s next-door neighbour) and Brady Muller, […]

Burritos in motion
 Hungering for more info about pedal-powered, yummy-food-bearing godsend the Burrito Bike? Here’s some: the Bike’s open every Saturday from 7pm-2am and if you live in the north end, it’ll bring you a handmade vegan or vegetarian burrito for $4 (delivery included). Owners Adam O’Reilly (the percussionist for Fall Horsie), and Sari Lightman […]

Ever wondered what success tastes like? Not metaphorically, silly—literally! Take that curiosity over to the Mosaic Social Dining Lounge (1584 Argyle), and sample bartender Cooper Tardivel’s award-winning creation, the True North martini. Tardivel recently won the Bols Canadian Cocktail Championship, a competition sponsored by Amsterdam-based liquor and spirit company Bols (which holds similar national competitions […]

Both the Quinpool and Clayton Park Rogers Video outlets have stopped renting, and will close up for good on February 10. They’re currently selling off their inventory. Movie fans, direct your blame where you will—at competitors Blockbuster and Video Difference, perchance, or the waning popularity of DVD rental—then get your butts in gear, and start […]

If you’ve been digging the wood-fired gourmet pizza that Morris East (5212 Morris) has been churning out, Morris East owner Jennie Dobbs has got a new club for you—the restaurant’s supper club. (It’s like other clubs, but with more supper.) The goal of the supper club is to allow interested diners to chow down on […]

After five years in the coffee and tasty panini biz, Alteregos Cafe (2193 Gottingen) is looking to shake things up: they’ve launched a new menu. “We have a lot of regular customers, so people want to see some change and movement,” points out owner Michelle Strum. The cafe’s offering a slew of new paninis (one […]

New pizza place City Pizza is the latest business to open its doors in the seemingly cursed retail space at 5688 Spring Garden (the former home of Aladdin Palace Restaurant, the Italian Garden and more). City Pizza owner Yasser Khalaf understands his restaurant space’s troubled reputation…but he also knows its potential. Spring Garden’s a busy […]

The Pyramid Cafe (2196 Windsor) may not, as previously reported, be “kaput.” A sign on the cafe’s door says it’s closed for renovations. No word from the cafe’s owner. (Check back for more)…Despite rumours to the contrary, the Coconut Grove Nightclub (1567 Grafton) is still open; but the club is running on a limited schedule […]

It looks like the Thirsty Duck (5472 Spring Garden) is indeed closed for good. There “just wasn’t enough business” there, says Gary Muise, VP of operations for the Grafton Connor Group, which bought the Duck out of bankruptcy in May 2006. At the time, the Group revamped the restaurant’s decor and menu; the changes were […]

The website for Cargo & James Tea greets you with a jaunty jingle. (“Your source for tea: Cargo & James!”) Listening to it is pretty 
fun—which is reason enough to check out the Cargo & James that recently opened at 1239 Barrington. Our Cargo & James is the first to launch east of Edmonton. How’d […]

Believe it or not, Davoud Sadeghi, the owner of nifty new Iranian restaurant, Eat & Fit (6184 Quinpool, the former home of Dodo’s Cafe & BBQ) got into the restaurant game out of boredom. For almost 30 years, Sadeghi worked as a commercial director for a manufacturing company in Iran; in March, Sadeghi and his […]