Best place to shop in Toronto?

Question

I am looking for any places (small and large scale stores, boutiques, markets etc.) that have unique and interesting finds (clothes, accessories, stuff for the house etc.) and/or GREAT deals (good discounts, sales etc) within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). So I was just wondering if anyone can recommend some great places to shop? Any suggestions are welcome!!!

Answer 1

Walmart

Answer 2

Eatons Centre or Yorkdale Mall

Try this:

http://www.yorkdale.com/

Answer 3

K, i'm taking this from another thread...

all credit should go to baumprinzessin

but i agree with what they said...

yeah, yonge is good for a lot of things (ethnic & fast foods, 2nd-hand books, some clothes places, music stores -- sam the record man & hmv are both right at yonge & dundas -- but there are also a lot of touristy shops with junky stuff, which are probably not as cool). the 'world's biggest bookstore' (which... isn't, but is a nice place to spend a bit of time if you like books & book shopping) is on edward st., basically at yonge & dundas.

as mentioned too, the eaton's centre is at yonge & dundas/yonge & queen, and obviously there's a lot in there too, but it's not nearly as cool as walking around outside, especially if it's actually nice out. it wouldn't have so much in the way of 'unique' places, either.

queen st. would be one of your best bets for vintagey stuff -- really *too* hip, a lot of hairdos, but it's still pretty cool.

also kensington market, which is slightly further west, right next to (you might even say *in*) chinatown: at around dundas just west of spadina. it's on minor streets: you can access it by going west off spadina onto nassau or baldwin. kensington is a great neighbourhood just in general, but also has *loads* of vintage stuff, plus bakeries, cheese stores, slightly more (what to call it?) 'old-fashioned'-style groceries. nice to walk around there.

chinatown itself -- all along spadina -- is neat. great food, and all sorts of stores. usually really crowded & busy.

bloor is cool, especially west of, say, spadina. lots of 2nd-hand music places around bloor & bathurst (next major street west of spadina), & koreatown is a bit further west again, around bloor & christie. nice for walking, in my opinion, and all around there (around bloor & bathurst, say) there are nice side streets running north-to-south with oldish houses and lots of trees. if you're into just walking around neighbourhoods, this is lovely.

and if you want to see something a bit different, church (just a bit east of yonge now) is a cool street -- loads of nice old churches (so it's not just a clever name :-). the g*y community, incidentally, is centred around church & wellesley.

if you're interested in actual museums etc., the art gallery of ontario is at dundas & mccaul (i.e. a bit west of bay st.), and the rom is at avenue road & bloor (actually it's on queen's park, just south of bloor, but avenue road & queen's park & university ave are all the same street). the rom is on university property, and the university is actually really beautiful itself, in places. as long as you're in a city on a day when the university is open, you can just go into the various buildings & look around. university college, trinity college, hart house, st. michael's college and victoria college are all nice areas/buildings. especially university college, which is awesome inside (campus goes from bay st. to spadina & from bloor to college). and queen's park -- i.e. the actual park, with the provincial govt buildings -- is on campus too, and is nothing spectacular, but a nice little green space, and worth walking through on your way somewhere, maybe.

well, that's more than you'd end up doing in one day, obviously, but it's almost all pretty walkable (at least if you like walking a lot, which it sounds like you're preferring to ttc); some choices would have to be made, of course & one end of things (either church or christie, for instance) would have to be cut off. but yeah, it's all pretty much within walking distance.

have fun! it's a nice and rather diverse area of the city

Answer 4

What is wrong with Canadians? Half them speak French and the other half let them. Shouldn't they speak the language of the people they stole the land from.