Feel like you've stepped into the French countryside when you visit this Toronto shop. Featuring fine French linens, tableware, and home decor, the simple white washed beauty of these items are sure to add the perfect finishing touch to your home. Personal fragrances, ornate jewelry, and delicate children's clothing and toys can also be found here. Find stunning antique glass lamps, and ostrich feather throws to cozy up your living room or pearl napkin rings and silver serving platters to wow your dinner guests. You're sure to find something that strikes your fancy.
Toronto's tallest office building, at 72 stories, also features the largest of the many shopping areas in Toronto's complex underground system. Shops include Gap, Henry Birks and other outlets offering the latest in men's and women's fashions. Business people flock to the food court on the top level during lunch hour, while restaurants like the Tasting Rooms attract the expense account crowd. The works of Canadian and international artists are on display at the First Canadian Place Network Gallery and you can catch lunchtime concerts at the Waterfall Stage.
Chic shops and posh restaurants like Sassafraz and Yamato Japanese Restaurant, and the perpetually crowded sidewalk cafes make Bloor-Yorkville a quaint spot for those with expensive tastes. During the evening, wrought-iron lampposts light your way as you dip into art galleries, cocktail lounges and tiny boutiques selling haute couture. The area is frequented by celebrities, so you never know whom you will bump into next.
Come and explore a slice of life from the Chinese culture right in the heart of Mississauga at the Mississauga Chinese Centre. With its marvellous architecture that pays homage to the glorious history of China and number of stores selling Oriental products, though a shopping center, the Mississauga Chinese Centre is no less than an attraction in itself. The august entrance of this center is hard to miss on the Dundas Street; as you enter the gate, you can soak in the magnificence of quintessential Chinese architecture in the Fortress At The Great Wall, the Corner Tower, the iconic Stele and the Nine Dragon Wall. The shops and services on site range from stores selling artifacts, jewelry, fashion to spas that relax you after a long escapade through the center.
Although there are several Chinese districts in the Greater Toronto area, including the Don Valley Chinatown East, purists still refer to this one as the main Chinatown. On wide streets lined with bright lights, shops sell everything from medicinal herbs to take-out kung po gai ding. While some of the small shops hold form to more traditional ways, the Dragon City Shopping Mall at Dundas and Spadina is the ultimate East meets West shopping experience. The district is also restaurant rich and although some of them may look daunting to the uninitiated, the food is invariably excellent.
This "modern-living center" offers an arcade of shops and restaurants open to all and an apartment complex above for people to live in the downtown area at the corner of Bloor and Bay. With bookstores, wine shops and a variety of stores geared for urban living, the shopping concourse has something for everyone. Also worth enjoying is the Panorama Lounge and Restaurant, on the 51st floor with a view of the city that is second to none.