A Fast Trip To Toronto Leads To New Dining Adventures
I went to see Jon Batiste, and came home with spices
While I was touring around Toronto last week, I had a flashback to the first visit that I can remember. I was about seven years old, and we were on our way to somewhere else, either Niagara Falls, or Massachusetts to see relatives. At some point on the trip, we came through Toronto. We went to the Toronto Stock Exchange, and we rode one of the streetcars called The Red Rocket.
In modern times, Toronto’s reputation as a dining city is somewhat overshadowed by that of Montreal. It could be that more New Yorkers go to Montreal for weekends, making them evangelists for its bagels and smoked meat. But the more I visit Toronto, the more I discover, and I have barely scratched the surface.
My latest trip there was to see Jon Batiste, New Orleans native, former Late Show band leader, multiple Grammy winner and most recently, an Oscar nominee. Jon’s poster from the New Orleans Jazz Fest hangs on my wall, and when he announced his latest tour, I jumped online to get tickets.
The ones for Toronto were reasonably priced: with the exchange rate, I paid just $46, and I figured a little holiday was in order. Last Monday, I boarded a Via Rail train in Windsor, Ontario, across the river from Detroit, headed for music and food. (You can read about the train trip over at Intersection.)
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