Is it my imagination or is everyone talking about Lisbon these days? It seems that just overnight that this Portuguese capital is the one destination that is suddenly on everyone’s travel list. In fact, Lisbon was voted “best city destination” by TRAVELBOOK in  2022 partly based on sustainability, cleanliness, and safety beating out such heavyweights as New York City, Barcelona, Singapore, and Dubai. A quick tour through some of the trends driving this surging popularity will surely pique your interest as well.

Pop quiz. When you think of Toronto what quickly comes to mind?

The CN Tower? Drake? Snow? Hockey?

While all of these images are certainly accurate, Toronto has become much more than a sum of its clichés. In fact, not only is Toronto Canada’s economic epicentre with a current yet growing population of 6.3 million, it is also becoming a hospitality juggernaut with the sector on a meteoric tear

This week I was looking for a creative, delicious, fast lunch spot on a fine summer’s day and decided to head to the Atwater Market’s outdoor food court located in the market’s northwest quadrant.

Normally I would make a beeline to the Satay Brother’s stall which is always buzzing with laughing patrons and blasting with tunes but this time I elected to try the ribs at Aylwin Barbecue and man, am I glad I did!!!