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| - My wife and I receive tickets to this event through Yelp which was awesome. Thanks!
Taste of Toronto is an almost perfectly executed event in so many ways. It's in a great venue at the Fort York Garrison. The size and layout are perfect for the event. It's compact enough to not have to walk far for anything, but still leaves enough space to not feel crowded. The pre-paid 'crown' system is a great idea to keep lines moving quickly by by-passing cash and machines at the food vendors. The festival also does a great job of ensuring diversity, so you truly can choose from a breadth of food varieties.
I'll get my negative critique out first in that the value for food is average at best at some vendors, to downright poor at others. In fact, after you get used to high prices, the places with seemingly 'great' value only seems that way after you've seen other places charge so high for very small portions. I went to Carver first, and they were charging $10 for what is perhaps 1/3 of a normal sandwich. Pretty good ingredients yes, but nothing THAT exotic to justify the cost.It wasn't the only thing I saw with gourmet prices for relatively mainstream food. You'll need to spend at least $30 to be relatively full, and realistically even more to feel you truly experienced the event. But as I said earlier, some vendors were better than others for value.
I tried:
I) County General: After completely avoiding Carver, I came here. Pretty tasty fried chicken with Asian influence, but a fairly small portion. Not a huge regret, but I wish I had more patience at the time to look for something else with better value.
2) Fat Pasha: Similar portion size of chicken to County General, but also came with hummus, pita and olives. Pretty enjoyable, with a nice taste of charcoal on the chicken, though it had evidently been off the grill for a few minutes before being served. Man, that hot sauce was great.
3) Pilsner Urquell: WONDERFUL beer in a good size cup for $6. Nothing but praise here and I'll have to try and find them...sad it may not be easy to find it on draught again though.
4) Cider: ...I forget the name. A purchase came with a voucher for a free can at the LCBO which gave it great value.
5) Little Sister: My wife ordered the chicken sate and I had the raw tuna in olive oil over cabbage. Both were pretty good (though the tuna would be clutching at straws to say there was Indonesian influence), but we had buyer's remorse once we saw their fried chicken coming out. Fortunately, my friend ordered that eventually and i got to try it. LOVED the fried chicken, though the sate sauce on fries was surprisingly a not so good combination.
We also ordered cupcakes from a vendor whose name I unfortunately forget, and an all-natural fruit Popsicle.
We really enjoyed our time at this event. They managed to take a great concept and execute into a wonderful event which checks virtually all the boxes you'd want in a food event. I'd still wish for prices to be a little more reflective of the portion sizes; but if you do some research and show some patience, you can still find some pretty good value.
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