Neighbourhood #15 - Mt Pleasant

I almost labelled this as "aka Davisville", but I'll tell you what.  I think there is more at Yonge and Davis for us to explore so lets mark this down as a separate.  Ironically on our way back from our last neighbourhood (I wonder what tense this is?  Future past?) Sim and I looped through a few hoods.  "Lets check out Davisville" I said enthusiastically.  Maybe we could get some ideas or inspirations for further adventures.  Going up Spadina Rd we turned right at Chaplin and took that past Yonge to Mt Pleasant.  As soon as I saw that intersection I knew we had been there just a few days before.  Which brings me to the present past.  Mt Pleasant adventure time.

It was a pretty gnarly day for me that Friday.  I had just heard news from my Aunt that my Great Aunt was preparing to go into palliative care.  She has since passed, RIP you amazing lady.  I was trying to coordinate with my brother to meet in the East end and travel up to Newmarket one last time.  Mid-afternoon my dad and Aunt called.  She was back to being responsive and they officially brought the warning from fire truck red to a cooler pumpkin orange.  We ended up postponing our visit to the next day.  In my haste there were no photos taken, and very poor record of what we actually got up to.  But here goes nothing.

We grabbed a quick and easy parking spot just North of Davisville on Mt Pleasant.  Our first stop was a cool furniture store, Manderley Fine Furniture.  They had some pretty fancy pieces that caught my eye.  Out of my league for sure but nice.  Sometimes I wonder if stores like that get bothered my a pair of looky-loos, but you never know when a look might turn into a buy.  In my case I'm fairly certain it's never but they don't need to know that.  Next we ducked into a cool shop called Jacaranda Tree & Co.  It's kind of an upscale kitch shop if that's not too much of an oxymoron.  Again I quite liked several things, but to be honest I felt like by the time we walked out the front door I hadn't really given it an honest look.

On we went.  We stopped into a candy store and picked up some Tahiti Treat for Spence.  Also a favourite vintage soda of mine.  Yummity yum yum.  It looks like Crush is coming back with a new berry punch type soda.  A quick stop into a Chocolatier but only to tease ourselves.  Just short of Eglinton we crossed back over and headed South. We toured Mabel's Fables in search of children's books about foxes, but those damn stores always sort by author instead of animabetically.

The last stop was into a cute little cafe called Hillside Cafe (Bakeshop & Delicatessen).  I can't remember if we played BG?  My mind was elsewhere I suppose.  We hurried back to the car before the rush hour traffic kicked in.  Or the ticket ran out.  I can't remember that either....woof.

Sim and I have vowed to return to the Longest Yard when we can have a proper beer and pub meal.  We both just loved the name.  We also skipped my namesake store, Jules Cafe and Patisserie, and a fancy looking gelato shop that would be nice in the summer time.  Looking back, it was a fairly good hood.  One more write-up and we'll be all up to date.