At the age of thirty-meh, you can understand that I'm not quite a mall-rat. I've lost my loitering gene but when I'm in a mood to shop, I quite fancy the Eaton Centre. It provides me with a few criteria that I feel are musts; great variety of shops, decent organization, and it's walking distance from my house.
Centrally located and on the Toronto subway line, it's by far the easiest mall to get to. The food court is moderately inoffensive as food courts go, but thankfully there are some okay sit-down restaurants if you fancy something a little less tray-oriented.
The division of the shops is by level it seems, the more inexpensive shops and more generic franchises found on the lower level, with the more expensive shops finding themselves on the literal and metaphorical higher tiers of the mall. Bookended on the north and south sides by Sears and The Bay respectively, you're usually able to find some form of clearance sale or other from either end. An easy way to kill off a Saturday.