St Lawrence Market - Toronto

I'm an absolute nut for farmers markets - and St Lawrence was no exception to that. Canada seems to have a love for all things baked - something we have hugely in common. So we decided to go check out what the farmers, bakers and butchers had to offer.

The peeps (short for people/ gang/ group) and I made our way to the market to go and sample some of their wares and I'll let the photos do most of the talking...

                      Yummy goods all around us!!

I'll have love without the heartache any day - unfortunately my clothes wont love me if I indulge too much...

Chocolate crepe with fresh strawberries in side
Its one of the nicest things I have ever eaten - so incredibly tasty

 After our initial walk around and tasters... we found an Italian butchery selling pulled pork rolls (another typical Canadian dish). I think he took a liking to our group because all he wanted to do was dish up plates of food for us. In fact so much so that when we found a place to sit for lunch - he had added in a whole bunch of potatoes to our lunch boxes. Very funny old man entertaining us South Africans (and a Pom and an Aussie).

Our trip to the market was super tasty, and I'm glad we sampled some yummy yummy goodies. However the walk back to the apartment was incredibly cold. Taking into account the wind chill factor, we froze our bums off... But have come to the conclusion that as long as we walk everywhere in Toronto we can sample loads of yummy goods - although hitting the treadmill is definitely in order and soon!



A typical sign... hahaha had such a laugh!



Saturday evening saw us gals hit the Distillery District for some R&R where we found our first cider.

The Distillery District is an internationally acclaimed village of brick-lined streets and dozens of vibrantly restored Victorian Industrial buildings. It’s one of Ontario’s hottest tourist attractions (yes I found that on some website - not so sure if its the hottest but that sounded cool) and home to live theatres, galleries, fashion, design and jewelry boutiques, unique cafes and restaurants. It’s all completely closed to traffic and just a few minutes walk from downtown Toronto. However, due to the fact that we froze walking back to the apartment we caught a cab to the District (I know - we broke our first rule to sampling yummy food).

It was so beautiful by night that we made a date to come back during the day at a later stage



Our first Canadian cider.
Missing good old Savana Dry - but this was pretty good!
Savana would have a right go at the name though - which made me laugh!
[South African insider joke]

And that dear friends was another awesome way to spend a weekend - with some great new friends, an awesome city and fun memories made!!