# Toronto Dopers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 14, 2001, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376 "2001-11-14T20:10:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/41 "2001-11-16T20:51:52Z")
**KimKatt** , directions are pretty easy: From the Eaton Centre, the south end of the Centre opens onto Queen Street. If you walk west along the south side of Queen (which means NOT crossing Yonge Street) several blocks, you’ll come to the Chum-City building (can’t miss it; it’s MuchMusic and Speaker’s Corner), which is John Street. Turn left. Two blocks south, at Adelaide Street, is a Hooter’s. Turn right at that corner, and walk west about 50 feet. Bingo! From Union Station (the bottom of the “U” on the main north-south subway route), walk west along Front Street several blocks (you should be on the north side) until you reach John Street (landmark: there’s a Movenpick restaurant on the north-east corner). Turn right and walk north two blocks (past King Street) to Adelaide. The north-west corner of John and Adelaide is a Hooter’s. Just west of Hooter’s is Alice Fazooli’s. **Kwyjibo** , Fazooli’s isn’t on that corner. Duncan and Adelaide has Crocodile Rock [NE], Dirk’s [NW] and Vinnie’s [SW]. Scary that I know that. ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/42 "2001-11-16T21:02:52Z")
:KimKatt busily plugs all of this information into her PalmPilot: Cerowyn, from your posting activity, may I hope that you will be joining the party? ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/43 "2001-11-16T21:13:19Z")
Well, it looks like we are meeting at Alice Fazooli’s. [Mr. Burns] Excellent! [/Mr. Burns] So now we need a time. I’m not sure how long it will take to get to TO from Mississauga, but I get off work at 5. (I’ll porobablly happen to have a “doctors appointment” that day so I can leave early. 😉 ) But lets say that it takes 2 hours at most, I can probably be there about 5PM. (7 if I can’t get away earlier.) ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/44 "2001-11-16T22:48:34Z")
How’s meeting at around 6 sound? Gives people time to get there, I hope, and plenty of time to hang out and socialize. If anyone is going to be later, I’m sure our still being around will not be an issue!!! Let’s see if we can get a handle on the number, so’s we don’t have a large group bursting in on the place unannounced. So far, we’ve got: KimKatt Globetrotter Kwyjibo Who else can I add to that list? Come on, sign up! ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/45 "2001-11-16T22:52:27Z")
6 works for me. Like I said, I’ll leave work early in order to get ther on time. Wow! My first DopeFest! Kinda exciting! ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/46 "2001-11-16T23:03:12Z")
. . . 'cause I don’t even know if I can make it (says he assuming he’d been invited in the first place. Bramptonians such as myself always feel like the poor cousins to our oh so sophisticated Toronto neighbours) If you’re looking for something specifically in the Yonge/Front area, one cool spot is the [Movenpick Marche](http://www.toronto.com/profile?fid=2&id=150592), which is right on the corner of Front and Yonge. It is a self-service restaurant where you fetch your own dinners from stations where the food is made fresh before your eyes. Very good food, a variety of tastes, and suitable for many budgets. My $0.02 (CDN); $0.0164 (US) ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/47 "2001-11-16T23:10:29Z")
Of course you’re invited! Hey! I was a Bramptonian too. (A Heart Lakeian actually 🙂 ) I think Fazoolies is the place though. (I’m only needing a couple of drinks anyway…funds are tight around this time of year.) ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/48 "2001-11-16T23:18:28Z")
Let me make this perfectly clear: > [@](#): > > \*\*\*If you are reading this thread, then you are hereby cordially invited to attend the Toronto area Dopefest on Friday, November 23. > > This invitation open to all Dopers, regardless of hometown, current residence, race, creed, colour, nationality, or preference for spelling the word color/colour. > > Being of legal drinking age is probably advisable :D\*\*\* And, **D18** , that is actually my favourite Toronto restaurant - but it does tend toward the pricey side. I think Fazoolies sounds good at this point. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/49 "2001-11-17T01:27:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kwyjibo \* > **Of course you’re invited! Hey! I was a Bramptonian too. (A Heart Lakeian actually 🙂** Heart Lake, eh? D18 Jr’s going to RH Lagerquist School - you go there? Hmm. I’m going to have to try to make this! Now that I’m actually invited and all 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/50 "2001-11-17T02:51:15Z")
Hej! Please put me down as going 🙂 Alice Fazooli’s, on Adelaide just west of John, eh? I leave work in Meadowvale at 5, so I’ll be there a little later than 6.30. **Kwyjibo** , where are you in Mississauga? If you’re near the Royal Bank headquarters at Mississauga Rd and the 401, there’s an express bus that’ll get you to the Islington subway in 35 minutes, but from anywhere else that far west, it’ll take longer. And from Islington, it’s about half an hour to downtown. Possible exceptions: the Milton → Union Station GO bus. (I _wish_ they still had that inbound Milton train during the afternoon…) You may be close enough to the Lakeshore line for that to make a difference too. [sup]I am disturbingly well informed about the buses in Mississauga[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/51 "2001-11-17T02:54:12Z")
Woo-hoo! We’re up to a table for Four! KimKatt Globetrotter Kwyjibo Sunspace ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/52 "2001-11-17T02:57:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KimKatt \* > \*\*Cerowyn, from your posting activity, may I hope that you will be joining the party? \*\* Yes, **theotherangel** and I will be there. I’m presuming that our illustrious organizer will make a reservation once we know the head count? ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/53 "2001-11-17T03:02:22Z")
Illustrious? Wow. I feel so special now!!! 😃 Absotively. So we’re at six: KimKatt Globetrotter Kwyjibo Sunspace theotherangel Cerowyn ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/54 "2001-11-17T05:54:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sunspace \* > \*\ ***Kwyjibo** , where are you in Mississauga? \*\* I’m actually by the airport. Just off of Matheson. I’ll probably end up going to Square 1 and gettinga bus from there. D18, nah…I only went to high school in Brampton. Notre Dame. ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/55 "2001-11-17T06:26:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gypsybiker \* > \*\*Alright, anywhere is alright by me, as I am about an hour southwest of Toronto…in Cambridge… > Kwyjibo…I did not know we were next door!! \*\* Gawd! I can’t believe I missed this one! Yep! RIGHT next door! I’m just off the 401, by SportsWorld. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/56 "2001-11-17T10:37:39Z")
**Kwyjibo** , you’re just off Matheson near the airport? I’ll assume you’re in the [Orbitor Drive area](http://www.city.mississauga.on.ca/transit/maps/mtrtmap8.html), that office park immediately south of the 401 and north of Centennial Park, but I think this works even if you’re over by Highway 10. No need to backtrack to Square One! Just grab the eastbound [#27 Matheson](http://www.city.mississauga.on.ca/transit/pdf/27.pdf)\* bus. During the PM, it originates at Meadowvale TC and goes directly to the subway. [sup]\*Warning: PDF file[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/57 "2001-11-17T14:57:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sunspace \* > \*\ ***Kwyjibo** , you’re just off Matheson near the airport? I’ll assume you’re in the [Orbitor Drive area](http://www.city.mississauga.on.ca/transit/maps/mtrtmap8.html), that office park immediately south of the 401 and north of Centennial Park, but I think this works even if you’re over by Highway 10. > > No need to backtrack to Square One! Just grab the eastbound [#27 Matheson](http://www.city.mississauga.on.ca/transit/pdf/27.pdf)\* bus. During the PM, it originates at Meadowvale TC and goes directly to the subway. > > [sup]\*Warning: PDF file[/sup] \*\* Yeah. Explorer actually. That cool. (I though that bus only ran at rush hour.) Looks like I’ll probably do that. (So long as I don’t get mugged when I go to get my car when I’m leaving 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/58 "2001-11-17T16:24:50Z")
Oh! You’d have to return for your car after? Leaving it at Square One by the bus station would be better. Or at Islington parking lot. ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/59 "2001-11-17T17:07:25Z")
Am I to understand that you’re worried about coming _into_ town during rush-hour? It’s not that big a deal, and there are several parking lots within 100 yards of the restaurant that will charge you less than the return GO train/bus fare. The heaviest traffic will be on the 427 south, but most of the traffic will head west on the QEW when you go east to the Gardiner. While I haven’t done that route regulary since '92, I do still occasionally need to go from 401/Mississauga Road to Jarvis/Esplanade during rush hour, and it’s not bad at all. ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376/60 "2001-11-17T17:11:29Z")
I was just more worried about parking costs… Probably easier to just park down there I guess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-dopers/93376.md?page=4)