Trapped in a bathroom, tasked with the delicate job of mosaic tiling, Annie Brace-Lavoie and Jenner Cormier had no choice but to get to know each other. Then they were a couple of strangers, a chef and a bartender biding the time with manual labour to help their new employer (Toronto’s Bar Raval) open. And […]
Greek Village Restaurant
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Give me all the bacon and eggs you have
Starfresh Modern Diner 20 Wright Avenue Dish: Plate Breakfast Served: Monday-Friday, 6:30-11am Price: $5.95 Medium coffee: $1.50 After years catering for TV and film, Lisa Barry knows how to keep people well-fuelled. Her little Burnside diner arrived on the scene just before Christmas, offering home-cooked eats and in-house baked goods to the hardworking business park […]
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Get ’em to the Greek Village
Apparently Quinpool mainstay Greek Village (formerly 6253 Quinpool Road) has the whole catlike, nine lives thing going on. When it suddenly announced its closure, again, earlier this fall we wondered if it was (hoped it wasn’t) indeed a permanent thing. Though we haven’t been able to reach owner Stefanos Kalogeras, the restaurant posted to its […]
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Greek Village returns home
With word that the beloved Greek Village will soon reopen at its old stomping grounds, 6253 Quinpool Road, suddenly all is right with the world again. The food world, that is. In early September Greek Village announced it’d be closing its doors at 6303 Quinpool (the former Athen’s) where it had been cooking up big […]
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Greek Village for sale
The Feed has learned that Greek Village (6303 Quinpool Road 405-3750) is for sale. You can buy the eatery for $199,000. If you’re interested in getting into the restaurant business, call Bruce Tramley at 830-2972.
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Good Food to move
The Good Food Emporium (2179 Gottingen Street, 422-3150) is pulling up sticks. The beloved north end eatery is moving into the space recently vacated by George & Lito’s—former home of The Pyramid Cafe and Cafe Vienna—at 2186 Windsor Street, just below Cunard. Good Food queen Carol LeBlanc reports that the move was prompted by the Gottingen landlord raising the rent on the current space but not doing any work to improve it. Also, the location over on Windsor is well trafficked. Gottingen Good Food will close at the end of May and open in its new location the first week
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Greek Village heads down Quinpool
The Feed has learned that Greek Village (6253 Quinpool Road, 405-3750) is moving. It will be going in at the original location of Athens and the short-lived Central Grill at 6303 Quinpool on May 16.