Cheap food in Toronto

What is the difference in fine dining restaurant and cheap food in Toronto? What defines cheap food?

So I have a friend that has never really had any real experience with fine dining restaurants before. He’s always wondered what it’s like to be in one, and how different is it to the daily street meat, or fast foods, or basically the cheap food in Toronto that students usually visit more than fine dining restaurants.

One night, we were both drinking on my balcony and he asked me if the taste buds of cheap food in Toronto were comparable to that of fine dining restaurants? I quickly replied no, and chuckled and said that fine dining food offers quality food that cheap food places in Toronto doesn’t. Then we got into a very intricate debate, comparing many places that serve cheap food in Toronto that were delicious versus the well-known fine dining stores that I’ve been to like Sassafraz.

The main debate of the argument was that, what defines “cheap food”? Was it the quality of the food that was served? Or was it the type of food that was served? Or was it the poor environment the food was served in? Or was it the cheap prices that the stores serving cheap food in Toronto offered?

Honestly, we spent well over almost 2 hours worth arguing about it and then I decided to write this blog to ask you readers for your opinion!

What do you think differs fine dining restaurants from cheap food found in Toronto? And what do you think defines cheap food in Toronto?

1.     Toronto Life Staff (2013). Retrieved from:

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