Food Thoughts (12)

I get the feeling that Torontonians eat out alot. It reminds me a little of London in that respect, the fresh food available is not fantastic unless you go to a gourmet grocery store, you know like Dean and Deluca. Here its called Pusateri's (which also sounds quite alot like our last name!). There are 24 hour grocery shops everywhere, which have the basics, I mean more than just depaneurs. They are proper small grocery shops but the produce is pretty crappy and there isn't alot of variety. They are more like the 24 hours Quatre Frere on St-Laurent. 
Last weekend I went out to a Lowblaws, which was definitly out of downtown and it was still relatively small. I was just surprised because I thought TO was supposed to be more "suburban" than Montreal. And usually that comes with big grocery stores and shopping malls. But there really aren't any good ones around here.
Now if there were an assortment of small goods shops then that would be acceptable too. But I'm a little wary of the quality of those as well. Perhaps my best bet will be Kensington Market, but it takes some getting used to ... when you are used to Jean Talon or Atwater.
Oddly the last really good food I saw, meaning mounds of fresh fruit and veg, really fresh good looking stuff was at a market store just outside of Oshawa!
But I'll keep looking. I'll check out the markets.
Organic and locally grown doesn't seem like as big a trend here.