Anyways, back to last tuesday. I was disspointed to find that the Belmont was closed again. Also, with no posted hours it was difficult to discern whether they had closed for the day or were just closed. This was around 4pm.
I was feeling ambitious so I decided to head down to the Patrician Grill on King street. This is a place that I'd been meaning to get to for quite a while and now with the warmer, bike friendly weather, the east side isn't so far out of reach.
On my way I stopped to take a few pictures at the magnificenct 70s time warp donut shop that is "Donut World". This place can be found on church just east of yonge.
I biked down Church, to Wellesley, then across Wellesley to Sherbourne, then south on Sherbourne. Moss Park stand up! The Wellesley Restaurant has a nice old sign. I wonder if the neon still works.
Sherbourne and Queen
As was my luck that day by the time I got down to the Patrician it was closed. I got there at 4:55 and it said it closes at 5 on the door. I will get back there soon though. Word is they have good burgers.
By this time I was very hungry and frustrated with my luck. I began biking west on King, with plans to hit the Peter Street Deli at Peter and Richmond. I'm not used to being down on King Street at 5pm on a weekday. Its madness! So many cabs lined up in front of all the big office buildings and bank towers. People everywhere, just off work, whistle gone, wanting to get home. It was around all this pedestrian and street chaos that I began to marvel at the beauty and towering magnificance of the buildings along King here. The art deco stone of the 30s and 40s and the steel modernism of the 50s and 60s. I never really thought to much about these buildings but I have to go back soon when I have more time to check them out.
Here is a quick shot I grabbed of the Bank of Nova Soctia building
The Peter Street Deli is a funny little place. Looks like its quite old but its now owned by a Chinese couple. This arrangement is fairly common amoung old diners. You get "chinese and canadian food" as they always advertise. This usually means bad, bad chinese food and decent sandwhiches and burgers. The Queen Star beside the Drake on Queen st. is very similar to this place. I had a BLT with fries and a coffee. The coffee was pretty bad, tasted stale and bitter, as if the pot had been sitting there all day. The fries were overcooked and of low quality too. But the BLT was out of this world! One of the best I've ever had. I don't know how they did it. It was dead simple, no secret ingredients or anything. One of the keys was the chewy bacon I think, I don't like my bacon crispy. It was just the perfect combination of the chewey bacon, soft, juicy tomato, cripsy iceberg lettuce, crunchy brown toast and oozey mayo that made this BLT perfection. DO IT UP.
