Bound by a common language and a common grain: Plaza Latina
In Europe in the mid-nineties, long before the EU and common currency, changing money was a familiar ritual just before and after every border, in airports and train stations and […]
Is This Love?: A Jamaican Food Odyssey Part II
After picking up Jamaican patties at Randy’s Patties and jerk chicken at Spence’s Bakery (see previous post), I got back on my bike and headed south down Vaughan Road to […]
Is This Love?: A Jamaican Food Odyssey Part I
Oakwood and Vaughan has been a lot of different things over the years. It started out, according to a former neighbour in his nineties, as an Anglo-Scottish working class neighbourhood. […]
Eating the VTS way
Sometimes people ask us, “How do you pick the restaurants you visit?” and “Why go to that restaurant, I’ve never heard of it?”. Both of us agree that we’re not […]
Chelo Pakistan: Lahore Tikka House
More than any other restaurant the Vicarious Travel Society has visited, Lahore Tikka House (or Patio, or “LTP”) near Coxwell and Gerrard almost perfectly replicates the experience of travelling to […]
Robin Dreams of Sushi: Japango
Some restaurants presenting a foreign cuisine are more evocative than others: at Japango, you feel like you have instantly travelled to Japan because as soon as you walk in the […]
Remembrance of Things Past: Haugen’s Barbequed Chicken & Ribs
Certain things aren’t difficult to find in Toronto: falafel, injera bread, Jamaican patties, passive-agressive sarcasm. Sometimes we forget how things once were. I found a dusty postcard in a convenience […]
Don’t believe everything you read: Ten Mile Aroma
Ten Mile Aroma in the Dundas/Spadina Chinatown was selected for a visitation by the VTS on the basis of its great name alone. Doesn’t it just make you think of […]
Wednesday? Tiffinday!
Lunch can be a problem in this part of the world. Not an insoluble problem. There are many little holes-in-the-wall, or earnest food court tenants in Toronto who quietly keep […]
The Vicarious Travel Society Went Down to Georgia: Aragvi
The VTS went up to Georgia, in fact. Waaaaay up. North of the 401, anyway. Ever since we found out about this place, it kept reshuffling to the top […]
