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Living Well is now Arrabiata Trattoria

Living Well, on Yonge, south of Bloor is in the process of becoming Arrabiata Trattoria RestoBar. Arrabiata, 692 Yonge Street, is still being setup and since they haven't posted a menu (or opening date) we won't know for a while whether it is a CheapEat or not.

Red Pen: pg. 96 of CheapEats Toronto, Living Well - closed.

While it's sad to see this neighbourhood fixture go, it won't surprise our friends who went to Living Well for a very disappointing dinner during Pride.

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Purple Onion reopened!

The Purple Onion has reopened!

It's now on Dundas West, just West of Pacific Ave.

James will be so happy.

[Red Pen update:
The Purple Onion - CETO pg 120
new address: 2998 Dundas Street West

Didn't know it closed? Check this]

Technorati tags: the purple onion, new locations, restaurants, toronto, junction, cheap eats, cheapeats toronto

Purple Onion reopened!

The Purple Onion has reopened!

It's now on Dundas West, just West of Pacific Ave.

James will be so happy.

[Red Pen update:
The Purple Onion - CETO pg 120
new address: 2998 Dundas Street West

Didn't know it closed? Check this]

Technorati tags: the purple onion, new locations, restaurants, toronto, junction, cheap eats, cheapeats toronto

Saveur de Saigon: Notes from a Bay Street CheapEater

I have a new fav lunch spot.

Deep in the bowels of the sprawling food courts that feed the hungry drones in the financial district is a little Vietnamese place called Saveur de Saigon.  

You won't find complex combos and pages upon pages of options here though. It's strictly $4.99 combos of something on rice or noodle with vegetables or salad. Each day there are four specials, along with Pho and Banh Mi (they call them "French Sandwiches") 

Full tummy alert! This is not your typical, stingy food court restaurant. Saveur de Saigon are out to make an impression, and they are succeeding! 

I'm particularly fond of the Grilled Lemongrass Chicken on rice with salad. The chicken is very good and the portions are quite surprising, given it's in a food court. 

Today I had the Beef Ragout, on veggie rice with salad and their house dressing. They just kept scooping more and more into the takeout container until no more would fit. I easily got twice as much food as any other place in the same food court, for less money. 

Saveur de Saigon
Richmond Adelaide Centre
120 Adelaide Street West

Notes from a Bay Street CheapEater is a regular feature on the CETOblog.com written by Gerry Thorpe, a regular contributor to CheapEats Toronto and the owner of Plethora Press.

Notes From A Bay Street CheapEater

In response to some very pointed, and accurate, comments from our friends and readers, we are introducing a semi-regular feature to the CETOblog - Notes From A Bay Street CheapEater.

As you know, the CheapEats Toronto team is constantly collecting recommendations and checking out restaurants across the city.  However, we've realized (with a little help) that between publications we are being a little stingy with that information and Notes From A Bay Street CheapEater is our first step in addressing this.

Gerry, or GT as he is known in your handy-dandy CETO guide, is going to start sharing his lunch explorations through the Financial District.  GT works off Bay Street and he is always trolling the food courts and back streets looking for for good and cheap eats to distract him from his day job. 

In addition to being a regular contributor to CheapEats Toronto, GT is the owner of Plethora Press and co-publisher of the CheapEats Restaurant Guides. He also takes on the daunting task of visiting almost 400 restaurants to ensure consistency in the style and cleanliness ratings before a new edition of CheapEats goes to print.  GT is one busy CheapEater.

Look for GT's first installment in Notes From A Bay Street CheapEater  in the next couple of days.