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| Downtown Core (south-east side)
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| Toronto's Union Station looks exactly like New York's Grand Central,
except perhaps for the flags. Can you recognize them?
| The opulent lobby of the Fairmont Royal York, the grand hotel facing
Union Station.
| Brookfield Place's vaulted galleria. I think they should install tall
trees (palm trees)--that would really emphasize the height.
| The gallery's so tall, it encloses a bank building's front.
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| The Hockey Hall of Fame is housed in a grand building. (It's a former
bank building.) Perhaps it reflects the devotion Canadians have to the
sport?
| Inside is impressive, with a dome of stained glass.
| The Flatiron Building has a triangular tip, a la New York's building of
the same name.
| The weird building-sized mural on the back of the Flatiron Building.
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| Nice buildings with mansard roofs that were once the heart of the 19th
century warehouse district. This is on Front Street between Victoria
and York.
| Nicholas Hoare, a cute, long bookstore in one of those old store fronts.
I like how the books are placed singly stacked on the shelves.
I
took this picture much later in the day.
| The gothic Saint James' Cathedral. My goodness that's a lot of spires!
Also, don't miss the smaller stand-alone tower at the far left.
| A panorama of Saint James' Cathedral's inside. It has some nice stained
glass.
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| One stained glass window with particularly nice texture.
| The altar. Note the apparent pipe organ on both sides. In most
churches, the organ is in the rear. It's unusual that it's in the front
and doubly-so that it seems to flank the altar in the front. Oddly, the
church's brochure mentions the organ but doesn't mention that it's on
both sides. Maybe I'm misinterpreting this picture.
Artificially
brightened.
| Looking at the north-east corner of Saint James Park and its
branch-formed arch.
| A panorama of part of Saint James' Cathedral's nineteenth century
garden, also known as Saint James Park. This panorama also shows some
of the city's earliest retail buildings. The building with the cupola
to the left of center is the 1850 Saint Lawrence Hall, the place to hold
grand galas in the nineteenth century. Also, at the far right is
another view of the church.
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| Saint Lawrence Market
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| The north side of Saint Lawrence Market's north building.
| Inside the north building is a farmers market.
| Given the season, most of the vegetables for sale were root vegetables.
| The appropriately agrarian mural at the south end of the farmers market
hall.
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| Another view--a panorama--of the mural at the south end of the north
building.
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Sorry I didn't take a picture of the facade of the south building.
| The portico on the west side of the south market hall. We sat on these
benches to eat our peameal sandwich. There are also benches on the
lower level.
| Vegetable/fruit vendors in one entrance to the south market hall.
Unlike the north hall, the vendors in this hall are stable/permanent,
not farmers.
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| Looking straight down one aisle with two opposing butchers.
| A panoramic video from the north end of the south market hall. This
view begins looking east and swing clockwise, ending looking west. This
video and the following one capture the feel of the market much more
than any pictures I took.
By the way, the south market hall was build around the city's second
city hall. The brick facade shown at the beginning of this video is
part of the original building.
| A panoramic video from the south end of the south market hall. It
begins looking southeast and swings counter-clockwise, ending looking
southwest. I love the motto of the cheese shop shown at the beginning
of the video. The shop is really big by the way. Also, Buster's Sea
Cove, shown at the end of the video, is really popular. Look at its
line. An Adventure in Cheese
| Things stuffed with feta. From near to far: artichokes, jalapenos,
sun-dried tomatoes, and more.
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| A video of a pasta-making machine in action.
| Dozens of mustards at Kozlik's Mustards; I sampled a few.
In the full-size image, many labels are readable.
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We spotted an outpost of a Montreal shop selling Montreal bagels.
| Carousel Bakery, famous for its peameal bacon sandwich.. Can you
believe the number of press clippings hanging from the stall?
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| Our peameal bacon sandwich. Peameal bacon is "sweet-cured" pork loin
that's rolled in cornmeal (though in pioneer days used to be peameal)
and pan-fried. It's served on a kaiser roll. In our sandwich, the meat
was good quality, slightly sweet ham. I liked it better than Chinese
or Japanese fried pork cutlets. It's simply a good sandwich. Who can
argue with fried pork?
| A sample shot of the lower level of the south market hall.
| Dnister Ukrainian Deli in the lower level of the south market hall.
Chowhounds love it for its kielbasa (including cherry kielbasa). Also
notice it has jelly tongue.
| A large variety of bulk rices, reminding me of the bulk stores I saw in
Kensington Market.
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| A lively mural by the indoor tables on the lower level. We sat here and
ate the rest of our lunch.
| Dancing fruit mural, also nearby.
| The eastern European (Ukrainian) cooked-food deli, European Delight, from
which we bought the rest of our lunch.
| Ditto, just a different side of it.
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