Gerrard street India Bazaar is a nicely constructed “Indian” experience.
↑ Banners during summer
Toronto’s Little India neighbourhood is located on Gerrard street near Coxwell avenue.
It’s a neat spectacle for folks who haven’t been to India. I’m obviously cynical: the food is mediocre, chaat is fake, the facade arrangements are tacky and majority of the places are not even run by Indians. When I went there for the first time, I was quite confused! But yeah you can buy clothes, sarees, kurtas, bangles, carpets, spices and things like that. Lot of them are good quality too.
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| It’s a known fact that the only true mango in the world is the Indian “Hapus” aka Alfonso (such an arrogant thing to say, haha). Be careful when you choose – hardly any stores in this place are owned by west coast Indians and they don’t understand how to properly ascertain the quality of a mango. | |
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| I don’t know which part of “India” has these kinds of displays of food outside the restaurant. Maybe Pakistan? | |
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| Pretty and colourful Indian clothes. | |
Hint while choosing a restaurant: If you see brown people eating there, its more likely that the place has real food. If you see forks, spoons and knives on the tables, run away!
506 Carleton Street car runs east-west while 22 Coxwell bus serves north-south.
So that concludes this trip to little India neighbourhood of Toronto.
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New look to the blog looks cool.
And seeing little India there feels nice.
When is Mexico ?
Thanks Abhishek, I am in Mexico right now
hahaha…..i like ur hint on restaurants verry much!!!.
it works!
Ha, I like that hint. I use that metric too, in Mexico, that’s how I found the taqueria on Madero Street!
Its a universal trick, always works!