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TORONTO One of the best things more or less having a son in college in Toronto is visiting him.

Never mind the top-quality education he is in receipt of or the (fewer than it used to be) discount on teaching. We have exposed in Toronto a bounty of wonderful foodstuff, great hotels, museums, live music, and easy public transport.

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Whether its the long car ride more or less or the short horizontal jump over Lake Ontario, in Ezras two years at the University of Toronto, we have been impressed with the smart, competent people in this blooming metropolis. Torontonians are like Bostonians lacking the snark. Except when it comes to Mayor Rob Ford. Graffiti sneering at the lies of the admitted crack smoker tagged many a light pole and parking garage. Even by his substance mistreat mea culpas, we aphorism graffiti assailing the mayors girth for the duration of a weight-loss challenge. (He ditched that effort similar to the press crooked his public weigh-ins into gotcha opportunities.)

We started ready a recent trip in our favorite neighborhood, Kensington, everyplace our favorite U of T sophomore buys products, locally grown meats, fresh bread, and ethnic delicacies. It is more or less a 15-minute walk, fewer with a tram ride for $3 Canadian, from our business district hotel in Torontos equivalent of Times Square, at Dundas and Yonge, close to shopping, restaurants, museums, and theater.

In Kensington there is fabulous foodstuff to be found in unassuming storefronts if you know everyplace to go. On a Saturday at noon, we squeezed into a crowded Seven Lives Taco, everyplace I savored an incredible blackened mahimahi taco for $5. The tiny shop ranks on many top 10 lists of Toronto restaurants. Then we sipped coffee in a nearby bakery and shared a Canadian delicacy, the butter sour, which is similar to a pecan pie minus the pecans. We kept strolling and eating the guys stood in a long line at another bake shop for nice meat pies. Between stops we enjoyed street drummers and a mime trying to draw patrons to a hardware store.

Sam Mendales for the boston globe

Seven Lives Tacos y Mariscos serves Southern California-style fish tacos.

The unusual ethnic diversity of Toronto translates to the foodstuff. We had incredible Asian-influenced barbecue at Stimulating Mud, another top restaurant, which thrilled my husband, a New Yorker who has spent a lot of time in Texas.

We crossed the city by tram toward the lake to the St. Lawrence Souk, a extensive building filled with endless booths of fresh fish, eye-popping delicacies including exotic meats like fresh giraffe and kangaroo, pea bacon its a Canadian prevailing fresh pasta, cheeses, and an array of mustards. This massive vintage building that dates to 1803 has crafts, clothes, and jewelry on other floors and yet is not as touristy as Faneuil Hall or even Summit Room Souk in Seattle because its in spite of everything a heartfelt souk.

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Then we explored the Distillery District, everyplace derelict warehouses are charitable track to trendy shops, like a gourmet chocolate factory and an outstanding restaurant and tequila bar called El Catrin. The inside is a visual eat of Day of the Dead-themed murals and dioramas and a massive wall filled with backlighted tequila bottles behind schedule the bar in the room everyplace whiskey barrels a long time ago stood.

In a cab back to business district we caught a civics period from the driver. He identified the engine behind schedule the citys bustling growth: Quebecs separatist bid left wrong. Indeed, every bank and business with alert leaders bolted from Montreal to Toronto similar to the 1995 secession bid failed. That was the beginning of the development boom that nowadays has supplementary high rises below construction than in in the least city in North America, and discernment, foodstuff, and film refreshing the weekends.

We, however, just kept eating. Sunday dawn we hit Caplanskys deli, which Ezra knew from its campus foodstuff truck. It was delicious: the smoked meat hash, the smoked salmon, the jumbled eggs with potato pancakes, every single one light on lubricate and served in manageable portions. We hope they consider becoming exporters as doggy bags arent allowed past customs.

Sam Mendales for the boston globe

El Catrin Destileria with its Day of the Dead art.

The only consolation to leaving Ezra and his adoptive home was the cosseted Porter Airlines experience. The discount airline flies ready of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, on an island a short ferry ride from business district and supplementary convenient than the trek ready to Tune Canadas exurban terminal.

Porter has a civilized recline that resembles an upscale airport club. It offers Starbucks coffee served in terracotta cups, soft drinks, water, cookies, and almonds, every single one on the house and available in many amounts. You container purchase delicious sandwiches and cold beers and hang ready in comfortable seats with on the house Wi-Fi that actually works.

A long time ago in the tune, you persuade on the house snacks from crews that have that decidedly Canadian sensibility: competent and pleasant and no snarky remarks even for passengers who capacity partiality the Boston Bruins.