The New York Times Travel Section recently featured King Street
West, likening the strip between Spadina and Bathurst to "one long
fashion runway, with its see-and-be-seen restaurants, bars and
clubs". The article is accompanied by a slide show of the area's
hotspots; a
list that includes Portland Street's Jimmy's Coffee, the Spice
Root restaurant and the first Thompson Hotel built outside of the
United States.
"King West feels like one of those glamorous,
tourist-friendly neighborhoods that was once to be avoided, like the
meatpacking district in New York. At the turn of the 20th century, King
Street wasa textile-manufacturing hub, but by the 1980s, many of the
sturdy but humble brick buildings sat empty, so the city rezoned the
land for mixed development. In the shells of those old factories, a
destination neighborhood was born."
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