In Toronto: Food truck advocates all thought that parking the trucks (with permission) in a privately-owned parking lot was completely legal. Turns out there’s a weirdly obscure by-law on the books at city hall and the food truck Food Cabbie has been warned to move from their spot in a lot on Mutual Street. Oddly, […]
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Lucky Dip – Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
For all the hype about food trucks and street food, we’ve got to accept that it’s still a marginal (albeit hot) trend. Which doesn’t necessarily translate into a good, workable business plan. [BlogTO] [Toronto Star] [Porkosity] Gift with purchase – aw, man, I NEVER find live tree frogs in my pre-packaged salads. No fair. (And […]
Lucky Dip – Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Only in Toronto would we stop food getting to the poor because of wads and wads of red tape. Seriously, some 13 years after amalgamation, why do we still have 4 or 5 sets of bylaws on the books? Shouldn’t this have been one of the first things that was actually amalgamated? Meanwhile, poor people […]
Lucky Dip – Friday, October 21st, 2011
Yikes! A Pusateri’s location was shut down yesterday due to an infestation of rats and roaches. [Toronto Star] Conservatives – they’ve got a way of ruining everything. Like in the US where some supermarkets are refusing to stock Ben & Jerry’s Schweddy Balls ice cream because of some right-wing organization of concerned parents. Really? You […]
Lucky Dip – Monday, September 19th, 2011
The best brewery in the country – is a little place in New Brunswick called Picaroons. [National Post: The Appetizer] Can’t get a recipe to work? It might not be you, in these days of lean times at publishing companies, skimping on testing and editing is pretty standard. [Guardian: Word of Mouth] Although it’s probably […]
Lucky Dip – Thursday, June 16th, 2011
When Greg saw this article on the front of the Star yesterday morning, he joked that people were getting really desperate to dig up some news stories about the Canada Post strike. But it turns out that the crown corporation actually handles a few live animals (baby chickens, for instance) that couriers won’t touch and […]
Lucky Dip – Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Can I share something? The food truck thing… I kind of really don’t care. I mean, sure, I grew up in Halifax where eating fries from Bud the Spud on the lawn of the Halifax library is an important part of a summer’s day. But this desperate “frenzy” Toronto has to be like US cities […]