Having done Toronto a few times over the past 15 or so years, I have a few favorite things to do/places to go:
* Casa Loma. AKA "Xavier's School for Gifted Children" and "Site of my cousin-in-law's wedding and reception" (Seriously. She got married in Storm's classroom.)
* The Bata Shoe Museum. No, I'm serious.
* The CN Tower. If you can, eat at 360, the revolving restaurant at the top of the tower. Great food, a bit pricey, but really good, and the view cannot be beat. And if you have the cash and the guts, do the Edgewalk. (I had neither, but it still looks cool.)
* There's also now an aquarium at the base of the Tower, which I hear is a great stop, but I haven't done it.
* If you're into craft beer, there's a brewery in the Roundhouse a block to the south of the Tower. They give out unlimited free samples. Sharing the building with them is the Toronto Railway Museum.
* Rogers Centre, formerly the Skydome, also near the Tower. They do behind-the-scenes tours which are a lot of fun. They also do baseball games. Time things right and you can do the tower, the aquarium the stadium, the museum and the beer all in one day. Maybe.
* College Street. If you like cool little shops with odd stock and clientele.
* The Second City comedy club, a couple blocks northish of the CN Tower and the stadium. Some days they have free shows where new and potential cast members try out their material or just do improv riffs.
* The Marche Movenpick, a restaurant styled like an open European market, in the Brookfield Place mall, about four blocks east-northeast of the CN Tower. Great food, and the mall is pretty cool, too, as part of it encloses some older buildings. Oh, and the Hockey Hall of Fame is at one end of Brookfield Place, too, if you're into that kind of thing.
* The Royal Ontario Museum.
* Fort York.
I think I'll stop there.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
* Casa Loma. AKA "Xavier's School for Gifted Children" and "Site of my cousin-in-law's wedding and reception" (Seriously. She got married in Storm's classroom.)
* The Bata Shoe Museum. No, I'm serious.
* The CN Tower. If you can, eat at 360, the revolving restaurant at the top of the tower. Great food, a bit pricey, but really good, and the view cannot be beat. And if you have the cash and the guts, do the Edgewalk. (I had neither, but it still looks cool.)
* There's also now an aquarium at the base of the Tower, which I hear is a great stop, but I haven't done it.
* If you're into craft beer, there's a brewery in the Roundhouse a block to the south of the Tower. They give out unlimited free samples. Sharing the building with them is the Toronto Railway Museum.
* Rogers Centre, formerly the Skydome, also near the Tower. They do behind-the-scenes tours which are a lot of fun. They also do baseball games. Time things right and you can do the tower, the aquarium the stadium, the museum and the beer all in one day. Maybe.
* College Street. If you like cool little shops with odd stock and clientele.
* The Second City comedy club, a couple blocks northish of the CN Tower and the stadium. Some days they have free shows where new and potential cast members try out their material or just do improv riffs.
* The Marche Movenpick, a restaurant styled like an open European market, in the Brookfield Place mall, about four blocks east-northeast of the CN Tower. Great food, and the mall is pretty cool, too, as part of it encloses some older buildings. Oh, and the Hockey Hall of Fame is at one end of Brookfield Place, too, if you're into that kind of thing.
* The Royal Ontario Museum.
* Fort York.
I think I'll stop there.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.