Showing posts with label Cheap Eats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cheap Eats. Show all posts

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

The top 3 food trucks in Toronto!

On any busy street in Toronto, it’s hard not to spot a food truck. With so much variety to choose from and quite a hungry stomach to feed, which are the best food trucks in Toronto to leave you craving for more?


The typical stereotype for all food trucks is greasy hot dogs and fries, but you’ll be surprised to know that none of those vendors have made the top five! In fact, there has been a boom of gourmet trucks over the past year! Yes that’s right; gourmet food trucks are now the best food trucks in the GTA! Serving anywhere from lobster rolls, to shrimp tacos, meatballs, southern barbecue, and even frosties made from sugar cane juice!

Buster’s Sea Cove is the first in question. Their fresh variety of seafood tucked into a taco or roll is simply a taste-bud boggling treat. Although slightly pricey, they have no problem drawing in long lines.

 Do you enjoy waiting half an hour in line, and then another ten minutes for your food to be ready, well then you've definitely stopped in front of the right food truck! Hogtown Smoke has your serving of the juiciest southern barbecue delicacies you can find!

Quirky food names are just one of the reasons El Gastronomo Vagabundo has made our list. Largely offering tacos, their award winning menu has made them the go-to food trucks for catering to the film-industry, and concerts.

Monday, 17 June 2013

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:
< http://www.torontolife.com/daily-dish/restaurants-dish/2013/01/23/toronto-cheap-eats/> 

Friday, 31 May 2013

My Top 5 Places to get Cheap Food in Toronto

If you are like a student like myself; you are always hungry, broke, but need variety. It isn't always easy to find something affordable to eat, well it is, but for it to also be delicious is another story. Cheap food in Toronto excites me, because well I can afford it. Although, I am on a budget I am always on a hunt for something different, great value, and tastes great. These are the top 5 places to get cheap food in Toronto.

1.      Toronto’s Street Meat (Hotdog/Sausage ) Vendors: Polish, Italian, Beef Hot Dogs, etc.

2.      Nguyen Huong Food: They serve Vietnamese Sandwiches (located on Spadina) and there is always a line up.

3.      Buk Chang Dong Soon Tofu: They serve hot tofu stews (located on Bloor & Christie)

4.      The Grilled Cheese: They serve a variety of grilled cheese sandwiches (located in Kensington Market)

5.      Uno Mustachio’s: They serve the best veal sandwich in Toronto and other Italian cuisine (located in St. Lawrence Market)


If you love South Asian food like I do Check out: Best South Asian Restaurants in Toronto