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tomwaits
Joined: 05 Feb 2003
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 Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject: New Toronto Entertainment District. |
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Errr before anyone tells me I'm on the wring forum I have the wrong LINK>
WTF A new cinema is opening at Yonge/Dundas which is now "Times Square" in Toronto. Where the old Sam The Record Man was.
anyway the story is this will be the new "hub" in TO. Cant see it. I like Yonge St but it's no place to go at night. Certainly the Aneex and Queen West are better. They talk nonsense like King West and Yorkville.as I say thogy wrong link. And if you hate Toronto just move on folks nothin to see here.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/350426 |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Is it one of those put in a looney and get a peep places. In that case I feel sorry for the guy with a mop. |
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crescent
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, it was designed with Tokyo's main commercial district in mind. And, you're right, it's a failure. Even the politicians are starting to see it was a mistake.
Have they built over that giant parking lot convered into a patio, or are there still those silver chairs and tables for the drug dealers?
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Dundas_Square.jpg/800px-[/img] |
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tomwaits
Joined: 05 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:46 am Post subject: |
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They call that a "park." They say there were many many thousands there for a Beyonce concert but I guess they blocked the streets off.
What surprised me is how sprawling Koreatown is--or maybe I didn't notice before. Its all things Korean almost from Ossington---even pushing it's way to Spadina. I went to one place and got decent food, undrinkable beer and rude service - with one group screaming like they were in a disco. I felt like I was back in Seoul. |
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yetanotherSarah
Joined: 09 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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| And apparently, Ryerson will be putting some new buildings in that area too. Seems weird to have the entertainment 'hub' so close to or on a university campus. |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| tomwaits wrote: |
They call that a "park." They say there were many many thousands there for a Beyonce concert but I guess they blocked the streets off.
What surprised me is how sprawling Koreatown is--or maybe I didn't notice before. Its all things Korean almost from Ossington---even pushing it's way to Spadina. I went to one place and got decent food, undrinkable beer and rude service - with one group screaming like they were in a disco. I felt like I was back in Seoul. |
The Korean food in Koreatown, Toronto is actually quite good. I like it and Koreans there have told me it's quite good considering it's not home. I think they even have Noreabang places too.
I guess you weren't lucky. I had been there several times when I lived in Toronto and the customers were better behaved than those in a samyepsal joint in Seoul on a Saturday night. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Dev wrote: |
| tomwaits wrote: |
They call that a "park." They say there were many many thousands there for a Beyonce concert but I guess they blocked the streets off.
What surprised me is how sprawling Koreatown is--or maybe I didn't notice before. Its all things Korean almost from Ossington---even pushing it's way to Spadina. I went to one place and got decent food, undrinkable beer and rude service - with one group screaming like they were in a disco. I felt like I was back in Seoul. |
The Korean food in Koreatown, Toronto is actually quite good. I like it and Koreans there have told me it's quite good considering it's not home. I think they even have Noreabang places too.
I guess you weren't lucky. I had been there several times when I lived in Toronto and the customers were better behaved than those in a samyepsal joint in Seoul on a Saturday night. |
The prices are a lot higher too. At 16$ a bottle for soju not much of a chance to get drunk unless you smuggle in a couple of bottles of Chinese cooking wine. |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:49 am Post subject: |
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| I was there last year. Now it WAS winter. But the new park was plain dead. I think the idea was they wanted to get the preachers and freaks off the other corner, the actual mall entrance. But c'mon. Preachers aren't going to stand in a some empty wind swept park. Well, maybe Korean preachers. |
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sunnyvale
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| Most "entertainment" areas in Toronto are garbage, especially Dundas Square. It's usually pretty empty during the day and deserted after 8pm. |
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