Kensington Market

6 January 2010By Zhu 14 Comments

Past Chinatown, we ended up in another cute multicultural neighborhood: Kensington Market. The eclectic shops and cafés are stuck between Spadina and Little Italy. We spotted Latino, European, Middle-Eastern and North African shops.

There was an artsy feeling in the air. Murales, graffitis and trendy hippie chic clothes, along with numerous bikes and narrow streets that – gasp! – can’t probably be navigated by car easily.

This neighborhood reminded me a little bit of some New Zealand cities such as Christchurch or Queenstown: relaxed and easy-going, with a thing for organic and homegrown food and promoting a somewhat alternative lifestyle.

Bikes On Spadina	Graffitis
Tease Who?	Skyline From Spadina
If The Environment Was a Bank...	Pothead Ad
Murale	Nuts
Street Signs	Bike Parked
Geisha	CN Tower And Shops
Stop Sign	Small Alley

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barbara said:

Salut Zhu,

Hey, this is the FUNKY part of town ! FUN !!
The types of signs and advertising in a place tells you a lot about the type of people who live/ frequent the place.

This feels of course young,perhaps student,artistic,and original.

# 11 January 2010 at 5:34 am

Seb said:

This looks like my kind of place! I love bikes That parked bike looks very funky, I wonder if someone put it together or if that’s how it was made. Has the banana seat, which is very cool…
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# 8 January 2010 at 5:38 pm

Seraphine said:

i’m pretty sure i’d like kensingtom market. i love all the stickers and graffitis- especially the one about if the environment was a bank, we would have saved it by now. wish you would have taken some photos of the little restaurants and coffee shops too. because that’s proably where i’d be hanging out. someplace warm with some coffee. blowing on the steam.
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# 8 January 2010 at 3:12 am