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The 12 best bike trails in Toronto
From the Beltline to Don Mills, Toronto’s ravines are great places to commune with nature on two wheels By Enzo DiMatteo
Enzo DiMatteo
June is Bike Month and to help get you in the right frame of mind for a post-pandemic spring – cycling does wonders for the brain – here’s a list of 12 of the most thrilling (and challenging) bike trails to get your ya-yas out in Toronto. Note to riders: some selections include multiple trails.
Beltline Trail (aka Kay Gardner Beltline Trail and York Beltline Trail)
We’ll start with an easy one. Most Torontonians are familiar with this trail that follows the old Beltline Railway that used to serve the Forest Hill and Moore Park areas of the city until the 1890s. That’s because a significant portion of it is named after Kay Gardner, the former Toronto councillor and community volunteer who envisioned the trail as “A place in the heart of the city to explore the city.”
The top 5 new restaurants in North York
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New restaurants in North York in 2020 range from jerk chicken on Keele to Burmese on Bayview. The area also welcomed some ridiculously huge Persian sandwiches, plus an exciting purveyor of peking duck that replaces a retro Chinese joint desperately in need of a makeover.
Here are my picks for top new restaurants in North York.
Named after a sacred volcano in Burma, this Bayview Village restaurant serves up dishes that take inspo from present day Myanmar s rich and complicated colonial history. Expect takes on laphet thoke and nan gyi thoke. Baos also make it on the menu.