Harbourfront Centre

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235 Queens Quay W, Toronto, ON, M5J 2G8

Fall festival: The Annual Vegetarian Food Fair is Toronto’s tastiest green festival and marketplace. Delicious food served by some of Toronto’s best vegetarian restaurants, informative presentations about making environmentally-friendly food choices. This year’s event starts at 4 pm this Friday, September 5 at Harbourfront Centre and lasts till Sunday at 6.

• favourite thing(s) at this place:
• fall festival

Toronto Vegetarian Association Resource Centre

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17 Baldwin Street, 2nd floor, Toronto, ON, M5T 1L1

Veggie bookstore: With vegetarian and vegan cookbooks, free vegetarian starter kits, this place has all the information a person could ever need to explore veg living. Equipped as a bookstore and a library, the TVA Resource Centre is open Wednesday evenings and Saturday afternoons.

• favourite thing(s) at this place:
• veggie bookstore

Sneaky Dee's

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431 College St, Toronto, ON, M5T1T1

Vegan nachos: Sometimes you find great vegan options at places you wouldn’t expect. I never thought I would compare Sneaky Dees to a fancy dinner. But when it comes to nachos, Sneaky Dees is gourmet.

• favourite thing(s) at this place:
• vegan nachos

Queen's Park

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University and Wellesley Aves., Toronto, ON, M5H2N2

Late night walk: I’m a sucker for old buildings, so when I moved to Toronto, I found myself wandering through the older parts of the city like University of Toronto, just staring. Poet bonus: a statue of people’s poet Al Purdy was recently unveiled in Queen’s Park.

• favourite thing(s) at this place:
• late night walk

Soulpepper Theatre Company

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55 Mill Street, Building #49, Toronto, ON, M5A 3C4

Night at the theatre: They play new and old, but with an indie flair that keeps things fresh and interesting. After all, literature doesn’t stop with Shakespeare and Shaw. It helps that their cast featured prominently in the Canadian television drama Slings and Arrows. I also highly enjoyed Evil Dead: The Musical and the Second City Show Facebook of Revelations.

• favourite thing(s) at this place:
• Night at the theatre

Vegetarian Haven

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17 Baldwin Street, Toronto, ON, M5T1L1

Dinner date: Veg Haven is the perfect place to take your non-vegetarian friends – the main courses are great, the service is fantastic and the vegan cheesecake has been making cheese jealous since they opened. For an exciting meal, try the sizzling seitan or a super-sized souper bowl.

• favourite thing(s) at this place:
• Dinner date

Heart on Your Sleeve

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61A Bellevue Ave., Toronto, ON, M5T 2N5

Guilt-free shopping stop: If you want to look good without a guilty conscience, this place, along with Left Feet, are the dynamic duo of Kensington for fashionable cruelty-free, eco-friendly, fair trade shoes and clothing.

• favourite thing(s) at this place:
• Guilt-free shopping stop

Moonbean Coffee Company

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30 St Andrew, Toronto, ON, M5T 1K6

Morning ritual: Exquisite fair-trade coffee, fruit smoothies and spinach-tofu samosas. They play great music and it’s not too far from the groceries.

• favourite thing(s) at this place:
• Morning ritual

Urban Herbivore

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64 Oxford Street, Toronto, ON, M5T1P1

Sandwich ingredients: It takes some special ingredients to convert the skeptics who think that eating plants must be boring – and to prove it using sandwiches! Urban Herbivore rises to the occasion time and again with barbecued tofu, sesame tempeh, avocado and celery root and two tasty kinds of bread.

• favourite thing(s) at this place:
• Sandwich ingredients