Midtown: things to do and places to meet

Midtown is Toronto’s quiet middle: Yonge and Eglinton for the density, the ravines for the escape, and a set of neighbourhoods that are easier to actually live in than to visit. Meeting here usually means a park or a coffee rather than an event.

5 places to meet here

These are the public places Churr suggests for a first meeting in this part of the city. Each one was picked for being easy to find, easy to describe, and easy to leave.

• Yorkville

  The rock in the park is a landmark nobody misses, and the coffee is a minute away.

• The Annex

  Bloor at Spadina: bookshops, cheap lunch, and a subway underneath you.

• Edwards Gardens

  Formal gardens that run straight into a ravine trail. Quiet on a weekday morning.

• Sunnybrook Park

  Fields, horses and the Don trail. Big enough that you should name a car park.

• Aga Khan Park

  Reflecting pools and hard geometry. Free, calm, and unlike anywhere else in the city.

Free things that happen here anyway

No calendar required — these run all year, or near enough.

• The Beltline Trail, an old rail line turned into a nine-kilometre walk through the middle of the city.
• The Evergreen Brick Works weekend market, and the trails around it, which feel nothing like a twenty-minute trip from downtown.
• Sunnybrook Park and the ravine system it sits in, which is the biggest piece of green in the middle of the city.

What’s on free across Toronto this week →

Meeting people in Midtown

The advice that works everywhere works here too: pick something that repeats, go six times before you judge it, and be the one who suggests the next thing. The longer version →

Or let your twin do the suggesting. Churr introduces you to people in your part of Toronto with a first thing to do already agreed.