Ossington

Although the Toronto skyline is dotted with a dizzying array of towering glass residential developments, it is the renewal of the once dodgy but now trendy West Queen, Ossington and King West neighborhoods that have visitors buzzing about the galleries, custom clothing boutiques, restaurants and specialty stores.

Lauri Lyons: Toronto Rises as the New Capital of Cool 2010

Shrewd move on the part of 'Ministry Of The Interior' (M.O.T.I.) to open their design gallery on Toronto's Ossington Ave. north of Queen: a neighbourhood that's becoming more hip by the week.

Archive 2007-08-01 Michael Stevens 2007

Ossington is lined with hip bars, restaurants, and boutiques, it's a full-on mob scene on Saturday nights of course, the fact that it was NXNE at the time probably contributed to the mayhem, and the garage that sat next door to where my friends used to live is now some kind of post-industrial nightclub.

Toronto Notebook 2009

Pizzeria Libretto is equally emblematic of the new Ossington.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

Pizzeria Libretto is equally emblematic of the new Ossington.

Toronto Notebook 2009

As I rode the front car of the Westbound subway, westward bound, from the south facing and west going platform of Ossington Station, at 5: 15, I saw a wonderful thing.

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

Ossington is lined with hip bars, restaurants, and boutiques, it's a full-on mob scene on Saturday nights of course, the fact that it was NXNE at the time probably contributed to the mayhem, and the garage that sat next door to where my friends used to live is now some kind of post-industrial nightclub.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

Had Golden Turtle's on Ossington, not St. Clair on the weekend - not so good.

Pho-ning it in... 2007

Gord and I ran a couple errands this morning and then had brunch at the Lakeview Lunch Dundas W/Ossington.

Archive 2007-10-01 Teena in Toronto 2007

We went to the Universal Grill at Ossington/Dupont, Susan's suggestion.

Archive 2007-10-01 Teena in Toronto 2007