Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington MarketJoin us as we celebrate the 9th season of the Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market! Pedestrian Sundays are from 12-7pm on the last Sunday of the month -- this year they will be held May 27th, July 29th, and September 30th -- and a special celebration of Pride Week the last week of June.
We will also be participating in the BRAND NEW Market Sundays, hosted Sunday afternoons from 12-6pm in August and September. Stay tuned for more information, or check out the Kensington BIA web site for further information.
Cheap Eat of the Week: banana cream pie from Wanda's
April 9, 2012
"Call it old school but there's something undeniably comforting and delicious about a cream pie (and, well, pies in general) They're great for spring when the weather's just cool enough to make you crave the creaminess of the pie, and not so warm it feels heavy.
And it just so happens spring also marks the beginning of the bustling season in Kensington Market.
At Wanda's Pie in the Sky, tables and chairs begin to make an appearance on the patio while inside it still
maintains its country-style, retro hospitality that somehow makes it the perfect place ot enjoy one of my favourites:
the banana cream pie ..."
Read more at Post City.
On Pi Day, math geeks, pie fiends delight in number with no end
"math flunkies don't have to know the difference between tangent and cosine to appreciate the combination of sugar, flour and butter baked to flaky perfection.
This will be the third year Toronto pie queen Wanda Beaver celebrates Pi Day at Wanda's Pie in the Sky, in Kensington Market. "It's an exciting day," said Beaver, who takes the pun further by creating special square pies.
Think hard here, because this pis pun has many layers: first Beaver is squaring the circle, and allusion to mathematicians' attempts to rationalize pie, an unknowable number; second, Beaver approaches geek-out overload with the joke she scrawls on the outdoor sandwich board: "Our p's r2". Pi equals radius, or r, squared; and Wanda's pies are, literally, squared. "it's kind of obscure and obtues, but people like it because they go, 'Oh! Yeah." Read more at The Star.
Read more at Post City.
On Pi Day, math geeks, pie fiends delight in number with no end
"math flunkies don't have to know the difference between tangent and cosine to appreciate the combination of sugar, flour and butter baked to flaky perfection.
This will be the third year Toronto pie queen Wanda Beaver celebrates Pi Day at Wanda's Pie in the Sky, in Kensington Market. "It's an exciting day," said Beaver, who takes the pun further by creating special square pies.
Think hard here, because this pis pun has many layers: first Beaver is squaring the circle, and allusion to mathematicians' attempts to rationalize pie, an unknowable number; second, Beaver approaches geek-out overload with the joke she scrawls on the outdoor sandwich board: "Our p's r2". Pi equals radius, or r, squared; and Wanda's pies are, literally, squared. "it's kind of obscure and obtues, but people like it because they go, 'Oh! Yeah." Read more at The Star.
