Our Great Lakes cruise ended and disembarked in Toronto, since none of us had ever spent tons of time in Toronto, we decided to extend our trip a couple of days so we could explore the city!
On our first day, we took a hop on hop off bus tour to get a good overview of the city and pick out some places we wanted to go back and visit the next day.
One of the most well known buildings in Toronto is the Royal Ontario Museum, this is one of the places we picked to go back to, so more on this gorgeous building later.
While the Royal Ontario Museum is pretty well known, probably the most iconic building in the Toronto skyline is the CN Tower. It was always exciting to catch a glimpse of it during our tour. We got to have dinner at the top of the tower in the rotating restaurant that night, so keep scrolling for pics from that memorable meal.
We drove passed Berzcy Park and got a glimpse of the adorable dog fountains. Its a two-tier fountain with cast-iron statues of 27 dogs and a cat. The dogs are all looking up towards a large bone perched on the fountain's peak. The cat is looking north at statues of two small birds perched on the arm of a lamp post about 3 metres away from the fountain. The fountain also includes a ground level trough to provide drinking water for real dogs.
The first place we hopped off was at the St. Lawrence Market in Old Town. We had heard this would be a good place to get a little bite for lunch.
I love these types of markets, they are so much fun to explore. I have been to similar markets in Philadelphia, Budapest, Copenhagen, and Rotterdam.
We ended up getting cream cheese stuffed pastries that were buttery, flakey and delicious. We enjoyed them out on the balcony in the warm afternoon sun. It was the perfect, quick, little lunch.
Then we hopped back on the bus!
We decided to get off at another location in Old Town, the Distillery District. The charming Distillery Historic District has become a destination unto itself as the Victorian-era warehouse and factory buildings lining the cobblestone streets have been transformed into stylish restaurants, shops and galleries.
There were a few, fun art instillations along the walking paths.
The restaurants all had beautiful, outdoor dining areas, all decorated in interesting and unique ways.
We were drawn into this adorable, eclectically decorated eatery and inquired about getting a table for a quick snack, we didn't want a full meal because we had a big dinner coming up that night. Unfortunately, they were pretty busy and the wait for a table was too long, so we snapped a few pictures of the fun decor and continued on our exploration of the city. (I know it doesn't look busy in the photos, but this was the bar/waiting area not the actual restaurant)
After our bus tour of the city, and a couple hours back at the hotel to take a little nap and get changed, we headed off to have dinner at the top of the CN Tower!
360, the restaurant, is one of Toronto's finest dinging experiences that features market-fresh, locally sourced and sustainable Canadian cuisine that takes fine dining to new heights – more than 1,150 ft above the ground.
The concierge at our hotel, who helped us make our reservation, told us the perfect time to make a reservation so we would arrive at sunset and get to watch the city transition from day to night during our meal.
We could enjoy a panoramic view of the city from the comfort of our table we slowly revolved around the city, once every 72 minutes.
We all got fancy mint and pineapple lemonades to drink
And we couldn't resist getting the famous chocolate tower for dessert!
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