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Most of the eateries in this block now close at 3pm instead of 5 or 6pm as they used too. Sad, but downtown is still having a hard time staying alive after office hours. We need more people living there, and not until towers 2 and 3 of city centre open as well as 100 Vic will be close to getting there.
I can definitely recommend Indian Tree for dinner and it's open past 3pm.
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We had some visitors at the office today, and as we walked to dinner around 5:30 PM, I was (quietly) observing how empty the downtown streets were.
Every new residential building will help some, and the LRT will help some, but we still need a lot more customers in order for all the restaurants to stay open for dinner. But at least now there is enough lunch business for them to keep the doors open, which is a start.
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If I want a quick bite near Kaufman, I'm typically at Quick Sandwiches or Union Burger. But I often drift down to the Duke Food Block, hoping for Holy Guac to be open. I wonder if their efforts to animate the block every week for dinner, with live music in the parkette, had such poor attendance that they decided to close down evening hours?
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I used to regularly grab food there for dinner until they started closing earlier. It's a shame because I'm not around to grab food at lunch hours. Breadhead has some fantastic pizzas.
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They've had limited summer hours in the past due to their taking the truck to festivals, etc so this should not be too much of a hit.
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Heresy alert - I find Breadheads pizza too soggy. I need my thin crust to be crisp!
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I found breadheads to be overly expensive and not a great attempt at what it was going for...
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"Convenience @ Duke" sign up along the DFB. Looks like a convenience store. Sorry can't recall what it is replacing.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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Plus the Hasty Market on Ontario across from the bus terminal.