A Brief History of the Hamburger
In 1967, there was a fracas outside the Art Gallery of Ontario, with protestors and...
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Tag: Sandwiches
Olliffe Sandwiches
I’ve been eating them since I was kid. My mother worked in an office building around the...
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Olliffe New Sausage King at St. Lawrence Market
The Gundy brothers are looking forward to bringing their gourmet, farm to fork ethos to the St. Lawrence. Ben Gundy is adamant: “We want to offer what’s not being sold elsewhere in the market.”
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The Great Deli Duel
I am one of the diehard people who cannot visit Montreal without eating at Schwartz’s deli. If I’m there for the day, that is where I will eat. No questions asked. The hot, steamy meat comes fresh from a steamer with a pickle the size of the Jolly Green Giant’s big toe. It’s the type of place that always has a lineup (in -30 degree weather in winter) lineups that I have not seen in Toronto. You eat and then you leave. It’s a shrine. It’s an institution. My question is, can Caplansky’s, Goldin’s and The Stockyards beef it up for us?
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