There is a north and south part to this market. The North is an indoor farmers market which is only open on Saturdays. The south it open during the week but its busiest on Saturdays too. Not having brought a shopping list or eaten breakfast was not the best way to enjoy either. If one lived close by this would be a good place to go to buy produce.
This area also seems to have the biggest concentration of pre-20th century buildings. That being said there are only a few. Once again the character would be much improved if there was some homogeneityneity to the streets. There are a few beautiful buildings but they are lost in the mish mash. Even the St-James Cathedral, which I assume is one of the most importatn since the Queen had service there when she visited, is lost in bad design. Its kitty corner to a parking lot and surrounded by bad condo buildings.
From google streetview.
After that we went for a walk around the Yorkville shopping district. Actually the motive was to visit a few stores that C wanted to get some things from. Yorkville is about a 5min drive from us, just north of the UofT campus. Despite being only 5 mins away, it a completely different atmosphere than other neighborhoods. Talking about homogeniety, this is one of the few strips that has a big city character. There are large condo and office buildings with the lower levels high end retail (all the big fashion house brands), then in the streets just to the North, there are victorian tripexes that have been transformed into boutiques. I resisted going into Andy The-Ahn. I've been trying to buy more locally designed or from quirky little boutiques. This isn't really the place for that. But it was an experience.
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