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Toronto, Canada
What's hot in the city this year?
From the March 24, 2003 Issue of New York
 Book a room at Toronto’s newest boutique hotel:
Hôtel Le Germain Toronto (416-345-8524;
hotelboutique.com), where you can buy just about
anything in your room.
Have dinner at Xacutti, a sleek, airy
storefront space on College Street (416-323-3957)
serving inventively reimagined Indian fare at night
and a hearty weekend brunch (the steak Benedict is
excellent).
Grab a drink
near College Street. Two of the best bars
are charmingly grungy beer joint Collision
(416-530-7569) and minimalist haven Sutra
(416-537-8755), a champagne-and-oyster bar that also
serves killer martinis.
See a show at the Horseshoe Tavern
(416-598-4226; horseshoetavern.com) or Lee’s
Palace (416-532-1598; leespalace.com) for a more
intimate look at acts (Bright Eyes, Sea and Cake) that
would play
New York venues like Irving Plaza and Bowery Ballroom.
Buy
Wallpaper*-ready home furnishings along
King Street East, Toronto’s equivalent of
Soho, near the downtown financial district. Along
Queen Street West, you'll find large, trendy
shops between Spadina and Bathurst, and cute, quirky
boutiques between Bathurst and Crawford.
Don't miss
the 2003 World Stage Festival,
April 1–27 (416-973-4000; harbourfront.on.ca),
with its lineup of A-list theater companies, including
Chicago’s Steppenwolf (performing Mamet’s
Glengarry Glen Ross) and Scotland’s
Traverse Theatre (performing David Greig’s
Outlying Islands).
-- SIMON DUMENCO
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