Can anyone recommend a good "meat market" for lack of a better term in Toronto. I will be working here for the next three months....thanks in advance!

Try Al Frisco's.

When on the street, listen for music. Look inside, do you see liquor bottles? You found a Toronto meat market!

Doug, What part of To? Dwntown? Mid? <BR>North?

Samantha...downtown please.

try College St. although the crowd there is a little "too cool" to be classified a meat market crowd...

I would suggest going to John and Adelaide and checking out any of the bars in that area. <BR>

There are a lot of bars on Richmond and Adelaide streets, around the John and Peter intersections. "My Apartment" is a bar on Peter Street that's often considered a meat market.

Try the Madison on Bloor east of Spadina. Very nice in the summer.

Try Queen St West (Spadina area) if you are under 30 and are into 'swing' or jazz (Bella Fleck, Victor Wooton). Listen to Good's reccomendations, too. If you'd like to see a little of the ethnic diversity of the town, check out the Danforth on a sunny Sunday afternoon...you can wine/bar/pub crawl and meet folks while enjoying amazing food.

One word of advice.....I've been to a ton of cities (mostly Western world) with "great nightlife" and I have to think that Toronto has one of the cliqueiest crowds there is...I would rate the women as friendly but not as approachable from the dating sense as elsewhere - I'm not sure why really....any women have any advice? where do single women hang out in the city?

In the summer - try the striking a conversation on any patio....Yorkville is a good shot....Hemingway's - any thoughts guys?

this is just plain sexist.

no , I think it's honest only.

why don't you just stay home and rent some porn instead of bothering women you don't even know

Well the standard Paris attire might serve you sell. There are several suggestions above as to location, although I cannot imagine that they would rival Pigalle. <BR>But clothe yourself in tight, low slung Wrangler jeans, with a huge metal buckle and a wide belt, tie a red bandanna round your neck, put on one of those Montana cowman's hats, take off your shirt, maybe even add a little fake hair to your chest like Austin Powers, and shine up your boots. Then, close to one of the joints named above, strike a manly pose with a little tobacco juice leaking out out of your lips while you wave a sixer of Moosehead or Labatts in one hand and a big fistful of Canadian color or Yankee green in the other hand. Perhaps you could belch once in a while just to attract some attention. I understand that some of the chicks in the area like that deep, manly, guttural tone. I think this tactic will work; it succeeded for a guy named Al who used this particular gambit in Paris.

God bless all those stuck up women who are afraid to get laid...