Erin Hershberg

Toronto

Writer at Freelance

Writer at Toronto Life

Will Eat For Work.

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Articles

Hot dog! This new Junction spot specializes in top-notch street meat

2 days ago | torontolife.com | Erin Hershberg

This past May, Venezuelan-born Rafael Bastidas (the owner of Inmigrante, an excellent Latin kitchen in the Beaches) and his wife, Valerie Jil, joined the Junction’s restaurant scene with a loud Get yer hot dogs heeeeeeere!To the untrained eye, Tino’s—with its bright-orange accents, funky stadium seating and adorable wiener dog logo—appears to be the mom-and-pop sausage shop version of a street-meat vendor. They’re just hot dogs, right?
After 40 years, a Toronto-based hot dog company with a cult following is back

4 days ago | torontolife.com | Erin Hershberg

For hot dog enthusiasts, nothing says summer like throwing an all-beef Hebrew National or Chicago 58 on the grill, then biting into it and getting that Proustian snap. And while most street meat still screams summer in the city, true frankfurter fiends (the ones who remember the days when Kwinter’s was pumping out 20,000 all-beef hot dogs a week from their North York factory) can only daydream when they hear that sentimental sizzle.
The Cheese Boutique is throwing a CNE-style street party next month

1 week ago | torontolife.com | Erin Hershberg

Afrim Pristine, maître fromager and co-owner of Toronto’s premier cheese emporium, is hosting a charitable cheese-palooza on Canada Day, with all proceeds going to St. Joseph’s Health Centre’s mental health programs and support services. What better way to celebrate the birth of the country than by eating cheese in the name of charity?
Tickets for chef Masaki Saito's upcoming collaboration dinner sold out in less than 30 minutes

1 week ago | torontolife.com | Erin Hershberg

Masaki Saito, the only Canadian chef with two Michelin stars under his apron, first sliced out a space for himself in Toronto’s food scene in 2019, when he opened his eponymous eight-seat omakase restaurant in Yorkville.
The best meals, snacks and drinks at Union Station's outdoor food hall

2 weeks ago | torontolife.com | Erin Hershberg

Whether you need to catch a train or not, you can visit Union Station for a first-class culinary journey—including some of the city’s most hyped restaurants—no ticket required. Starting June 15, Union Summer, the transit hub’s alfresco food court and bar, is back. Here, some of the standout vendors and what they’re serving.
A brand-new 98-acre island in the Port Lands is ready for its close-up

2 weeks ago | torontolife.com | Erin Hershberg

It usually takes patience and an active volcano for a new island to form. But, in a city as ambitious as Toronto, we can do it ourselves. Enter Ookwemin Minising, Waterfront Toronto’s new 98-acre artificial island in the Port Lands, a multibillion-dollar project funded by all three levels of government that was designed to tackle some of Toronto’s biggest problems.
What world-renowned architect Donald Schmitt loves about Rosedale

3 weeks ago | torontolife.com | Erin Hershberg

Ten years ago, Donald Schmitt, principal and founder of Diamond Schmitt, hesitantly moved from his family home in Trinity-Bellwoods to his current Victorian in Rosedale. “I didn’t think Rosedale people were my people,” he says. But he’s since fallen in love with the neighbourhood, particularly its ravine system. After a long day, he loves walking home from his downtown office, taking in nature to help “sort out” the circus at work. And he needs the chill.
Masaki Saito's new ramen restaurant makes only 100 bowls a day

3 weeks ago | torontolife.com | Erin Hershberg

Name: Ramen TabetaiContact: 154 Cumberland St., ramen-tabetai.ca, @ramentabetai.toNeighbourhood: YorkvilleOwners: Masaki Saito and William ChengChef: Masaki Saito (Sushi Masaki Saito, MSSM, LSL)Accessibility: Not fully accessibleChef Masaki Saito’s takeover of Toronto’s food scene continues.
A slider bar with a cult following and wildly affordable sandwiches is opening a new location

3 weeks ago | torontolife.com | Erin Hershberg

Back in 2018, James Bateman converted his original, cowboy-leaning concept, Bronco’s Slider Bar, into something he thought better suited the West Queen West neighbourhood: Pennies. The canary yellow bar with a huge patio has since become a Strachan Street staple, serving up alarmingly affordable two-bite sandwiches—Korean fried chicken, Oklahoma burgers, chopped cheese, Coney Island dogs—tater tots with all manner of toppings, cheap beer and (sometimes frozen) cocktails.
Toronto’s newest cookie shop is inside this colourful trailer

3 weeks ago | torontolife.com | Erin Hershberg

For half a century now, Peter’s Garage, a family-owned auto body shop, has been fixing and souping up European cars on the corner of College and Robert, right next to Fresca Pizza. But, recently, something has been parked in the lot out front that isn’t an Audi or a Mercedes-Benz—it’s the home of Robert Street Cookies, an adorable trailer with a designer paint job on the outside and baked goods on the inside.