Comments on: Kensington Market http://www.tomatokumato.com/2006/09/19/toronto-tuesdays-kensington-market/ conquering the world one tomato at a time Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:39:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: tomato_kumato » Toronto Tuesdays: Little Italy http://www.tomatokumato.com/2006/09/19/toronto-tuesdays-kensington-market/#comment-11 Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:48:57 +0000 http://www.tomatokumato.com/2006/09/19/toronto-tuesdays-kensington-market/#comment-11 [...] This weekend, I took a nice walk from my apartment to Kensington, taking advantage of some of the last nice, sunny days. I did most of my grocery shopping, but the butcher I usually use was closed, and considering the fact that one of the other two smelled like a farm, and the last one was very poorly stocked and didn’t have what I was looking for, I went down a few more blocks along College to Little Italy. [...] […] This weekend, I took a nice walk from my apartment to Kensington, taking advantage of some of the last nice, sunny days. I did most of my grocery shopping, but the butcher I usually use was closed, and considering the fact that one of the other two smelled like a farm, and the last one was very poorly stocked and didn’t have what I was looking for, I went down a few more blocks along College to Little Italy. […]

]]> by: ejm http://www.tomatokumato.com/2006/09/19/toronto-tuesdays-kensington-market/#comment-7 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:15:36 +0000 http://www.tomatokumato.com/2006/09/19/toronto-tuesdays-kensington-market/#comment-7 We live pretty close to the lake but love Kensington Market as well and often make special trips (bicycle) to the Augusta Egg Market and St. Andrew Poultry. Have you seen those amazing hot Shepherd peppers at the Oxford store yet? They usually have them in September only. The vegetable stores in Chinatown are great as well, don't you think? The handy thing about that area is that it is quite accessible by streetcar - either the College or Dundas car. As Ivonne said, St. Lawrence Market is a good alternative but it is a little pricier than Kensington. Alex Farms (I think that's the right name) at the back of the south St.Lawrence market has fabulous cheese - a zillion times better (in my opinion anyway) than any of the Cheese stores in Kensington. And there is a shop on the east side of St. Lawrence (sorry can't remember their name) that sells excellent Moroccan style olives, as well as very good cheese. The mustard guy is great too. -Elizabeth P.S. found you via Ivonne's Cream Puffs in Venice blog... We live pretty close to the lake but love Kensington Market as well and often make special trips (bicycle) to the Augusta Egg Market and St. Andrew Poultry. Have you seen those amazing hot Shepherd peppers at the Oxford store yet? They usually have them in September only. The vegetable stores in Chinatown are great as well, don’t you think? The handy thing about that area is that it is quite accessible by streetcar - either the College or Dundas car.

As Ivonne said, St. Lawrence Market is a good alternative but it is a little pricier than Kensington. Alex Farms (I think that’s the right name) at the back of the south St.Lawrence market has fabulous cheese - a zillion times better (in my opinion anyway) than any of the Cheese stores in Kensington. And there is a shop on the east side of St. Lawrence (sorry can’t remember their name) that sells excellent Moroccan style olives, as well as very good cheese. The mustard guy is great too.

-Elizabeth

P.S. found you via Ivonne’s Cream Puffs in Venice blog…

]]> by: Ivonne http://www.tomatokumato.com/2006/09/19/toronto-tuesdays-kensington-market/#comment-6 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:03:16 +0000 http://www.tomatokumato.com/2006/09/19/toronto-tuesdays-kensington-market/#comment-6 Hi Emily, You have a great blog and I'm glad you stopped by mine to introduce yourself! I completely understand your feeling towards Kensington. It's a great place and it's unfortunate that Toronto doesn't have more food shopping districts like this one. As I mentioned in an e-mail to you ,you may want to give the St. Lawrence Market a try! Hi Emily,

You have a great blog and I’m glad you stopped by mine to introduce yourself!

I completely understand your feeling towards Kensington. It’s a great place and it’s unfortunate that Toronto doesn’t have more food shopping districts like this one.

As I mentioned in an e-mail to you ,you may want to give the St. Lawrence Market a try!

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