Graziella5

Hi, can anyone tell me the location of the first , older, Shopsy ;s in Toronto.<BR>Is it the one located at 33 Yonge.<BR>I believe there is more than one but I might be wrong. Thank you.

torontopm

Hi Graziella:<BR><BR>Yes I believe that 33 Yonge is the older shopsy's. The original shopsy's use to be on Spadina many moons ago; and then they moved to 33 Yonge. I know of two other shopsy's one on King St. West near the theatre district and the other at Yonge and St. Clair (midtown Toronto).<BR>

GaryA

Yeah, the original Shopsy's was next to or near the Victory Bulesque Theatre on Spadina. I remember because my wife and I went from Vancouver to Montreal and Expo 67 with a stop in Toronto for our honeymoon and we saw what was one of the last great Burlesque theatres that summer.

Meesthare

Wow, you guys are bringing back memories. The original Shopsy's was indeed at the corner of Dundas and Spadina. My grandmother ran a travel agency right near there, and I worked for her during a couple of summers when I was a kid. The secretaries and I used to go to Shopsy's for lunch. There was another deli on Spadina, about half a block north, that was considered a bit better, and for a while you could buy Nathan's hot dogs there. They were brought in, packaged, from Coney Island. Yumm.

BAK

And acrosos the street from the original Shopsy's was Switzer's, which I preferred.<BR><BR>At Shopsy's, at least in the 60's, you had to stgand in line.<BR><BR>At Switzer's, waitresses and waiters who rememberd you and your children served you at your table.<BR><BR>But, back to the orginal message -- if someone wants &quot;the Shopsy's Experience&quot; I suggest that the Yonge and Front Shopsy's, at 33 Yoinge, across from the Hummingbird Centre, is &quot;more real&quot; that the Shopsy's on King St. West between John and Duncan. Yonge just seems livlier, more likely to have professional rather than student waiters and waitresses, etc.<BR><BR>But it is not so much better that it is worth the walk from King to Yo9nge if you are already at King for the theatre.<BR><BR>Shopsy's on Yonge is close to the Hockey Hall of Fame, so that could make an attraction -- meal package. But then again, Le Marche is cloose to the Hockey Hall of Fame, and it too is a taste treat for tourists.<BR><BR>BAK

Graziella5

Hi Bak and all, I surely appreciate all the inf. you have given me. Specially the nostalgia touches here and there. They mean a lot to me too, of course I remmember New York in the same way, I used to live in 36 street and Lex., now not even the townhouse is there. It was also in the late fifties,early sixties.-Wow, so much time ago...<BR>Hopefully we will be there next month and enjoy your beautiful city.<BR>Graziella.<BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR>