Posted by Sheryl Kirby in tasting t.o. on April 26, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Tasting T.O. is a new weekly feature here at Taste T.O. where we'll be asking local artists, writers, musicians, foodies and other personalities about their favourite places to eat and drink in the city. If you or someone you know would like to be featured in an upcoming instalment - especially if you have an upcoming event, gig, release, etc. to promote - please get in touch.
Maz Fusion is an icon in Toronto's experimental music scene. Her extensive history in experimental guitar atmospheres, and solo “audio-art” performance, as well as her experience as a producer/engineer is one of the greatest assets of her current band, holoscene. Innovative, but never at the expense of melody, she is able to create sounds on her instrument usually reserved for samplers and synthesizers.
Recently, she took time out of her busy schedule of planning shows and making guitars sound like "screaming angels" to have a bite to eat.
You've got $10 to buy lunch - where do you go?
Louis Meat Market (449 Danforth Avenue) for a Lamb n Beef Gyros and a Greek Fries. No need to eat for the rest of the day and I still have $2 left.
The budget's unlimited, someone else is paying and the choice is yours - where do you pick for dinner?
Right down the road from Louis Meat Market then, to The Pantheon (407 Danforth Avenue)! I just dribbled on my laptop.
Tell us some of the food shops you frequent when buying groceries to cook for yourself.
Sadly, I've often resorted to Sobeys (1015 Broadview Avenue and others) lately as it's just down the street in my new 'hood and I'm stupid amounts of busy. Overpriced and a thin selection, though it's improved a bit since being renovated. Happily, there's also The Chocolate Box (413 Donlands Avenue), for my British Baked Beans, they do taste different you know… and many other favourite cooking items from the UK.
When ordering in for a quiet night at home, what's your favourite place for take-out or delivery?
It’s back to The Danforth for some South Sea (162 Danforth Avenue). My local "greasy dive" Chinese place. "No MSG ...on request", haha! Usually their Cantonese Chow Mein and a "Treasure Box" - I'll leave that one to the imagination.
Oh, no, relatives are coming to Toronto from out of town - where do you take them?
Oh Yes! That means we can go to The Olde Yorke Fish n Chips shop (96 Laird Drive), made by real Yorkshire folk for real Yorkshire folk, it's the only genuine English Fish n Chips shop we've ever found in Ontario. "and an extra large Mushy Peas please" they even do Bread n Butter pudding!
Your favourite place to grab a couple of drinks and hang out where everybody knows your name?
myspace.com and juice from my fridge... okay, sad. So I'll say lately it's been The Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West), yes, watch me glide from sad to pretentious in one seamless swoop. The Gladstone is currently "band central" and we try to order the most complicated hard to make things from the menu as the cook is a mate of ours!
What's coming up?
Son/Lumiere, a curated music and art experience created by the sounds and lights of Toronto's experimental musicians and artists, with projections, photography, light-shows and paintings to accompany live post-rock/ambient/experimental bands and DJ's.
The first event of the Son/Lumiere Series was organised by holoscene members and takes place on Thursday, May 3rd at The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom. Doors at 8:30pm, holoscene to perform at 10pm. Cover is $7.
