Busters Sea Cove - Yorkville

I have come to realize I'm horrible at blogging.  I wish I could be like those other bloggers that have the time to blog about a new food or a new restaurant they ate at as soon I get home.  But there's so many other things I need to do!  Fellow bloggers, any tips on how I could find the time to blog sooner?  And when I do get the chance to blog, I blog a whole bunch at once just to catch up.

Yorkville is a horrible location for affordable good eats in my opinion.  Around the Yonge and Bloor area, it's mostly chains.  Within Yorkville, the prices for a meal are sky high for mostly mediocre food at best.  So when I spotted Busters Sea Cover open on Yonge St., I was elated.  One of my favourite seafood spots, in an area I frequent (instead of having to go down to St. Lawrence Market to satisfy my seafood cravings).  I ordered my usual, grilled calamari & salad, hubby ordered fish and chips (I can't remember if it was cod or halibut), and aunt ordered the lobster roll.  Hubby's fish and chips were great as usual.  Crispy batter, and moist fish on the inside.  The lobster roll, my aunt was quite pleased with.  After biting into the roll, she said, wow it's real lobster!  The fries unfortunately were mostly too salty, for both the fish and the lobster roll.  A little to heavy handed with the salt that day I guess.  As much as I love my calamari, I have to say this time, it felt that the calamari wasn't very fresh.  It was also a bit chewier than the norm.  Salad was fresh and tasty.  So I'm not sure if it was an off day for the calamari, or if I would need to still make the trek down to the St. Lawrence Market to satisfy my craving.

Grilled Calamari on Salad

Fish & Chips

Lobster Roll & Fries

Side note, the guy that used to man Buster's down at the Market is now manning the Yorkville spot.  

Busters Sea Cove - Yorkville

876 Yonge St.,

Toronto, ON

M4W 2J1

Phone:  (416) 551-9444

Hours:  Mon - Sat 1100a - 900p

             Sun CLOSED

http://busters-seacove.com

St. Lawrence Market - Buster's Sea Cove & Future Bakery

I had a great day planned out.  I had a day off from work and I was going to get a haircut, and join a friend for a late lunch at St. Lawrence Market.  The day started out great, until I get to the hair salon and the fire alarm goes off.  Turns out a water pipe burst in the basement which means that they needed to shut off the water.  While I was getting my hair cut, I see people getting their hair washed with bottles of spring water.  The worst part of my day was my hair cut itself.  Apparently my stylist didn't really know how to cut hair, and didn't understand what I wanted.  It was 3 hours of torture.

In the end I joined my friend wayyyy too late.  Good thing he was understanding.  So we met at the infamous Buster's Sea Cove at the St. Lawrence Market for lunch.  Even though it was 2 something in the afternoon, closer to 3, there was still a long lineup for food!  I ordered their shrimp po'boy.  The shrimp was perfectly deep fried and their sauce was just spicy enough, delicious!  

Shrimp Po'boy

For dessert, I wanted to get a Portuguese custard tart from Future Bakery, but they were sold out by the time I got there.  So I opted for a brownie.  The brownie which looked very good from behind the glass, was dry and crumbly and lacked the chocolatey goodness that a brownie should have.  I was very disappointed.  So avoid the chocolate brownie from Future Bakery!

Brownie

92 Front St E.,

Toronto, ON

M5E 1C3

416-392-7120

Hours: Tuesday - Thursday 8:00am - 6:00pm

             Friday 8:00am - 7:00pm

             Saturday 5:00am - 5:00pm

             Sunday & Monday CLOSED

http://www.stlawrencemarket.com