The Scadding Court market at the corner of Bathurst and Dundas opened last summer and is a pretty unique concept. Rather than having stalls, vendors are housed in refurbished shipping containers that stay put all year long. Food vendors (such as Monforte Dairy and La Pupusa) have small menus akin to food trucks. I feel like this project has a lot of potential and have my fingers crossed that the warmer months bring even more vendors.
Happily, I walked by last week and saw a new vendor being advertised—a Filipino vendor nonetheless! Exciting times. I sampled a couple of items from Tita Flips when they were at the Toronto Underground Market so I'm pumped to see what they'll offer here.
During the winter, the vendors' hours vary (and some vendors seemed to have closed up shop altogether), but I recently grabbed a few bites from Kim's A La Carte: Ddukbokki (chewy grilled rice cakes smothered in a sweet-spicy sauce, $1) and kimchi mandu (kimchi filled dumplings, $1).
Cool! Thanks for sharing,we'll have to re-blog it. Hopefully this will take off!
ReplyDeletei hope it takes off too. rumour has it, the community centre is also trying to get a farmers market going here.
DeleteWow! What an awesome idea! Calgary only just got food trucks this past Summer thanks to our new major Nenshi - would love to see something like this too!
ReplyDeletetoronto doesn't even have food trucks! it's really too bad. our (horrible) mayor definitely won't be helping the cause either...
DeleteWe're lucky to have Nenshi! People love the food trucks out here. There's definitely a bit of a scene and the novelty doesn't seem to have worn off :)
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