So how has Yorkville evolved into present day? Govani chirped, “that the area has gone through some dramatic changes is an understatement – but in some ways literally so. 1 power breakfast, anyone who wanted to be seen drank at the Four Season’s SRO, and anyone with the inclination to be bad went to Boa on Bellair Street.”
Govani met with celebrated interior designer Henry Liska who lived in Yorkville for decades, “he fondly remembers those years, and once told me: it was a time when “the Prince Arthur Room at the Park Plaza Hotel again hosted Toronto’s No. On 9/11 – which actually happened during the fest, and when the world, and TIFF abruptly stopped – I have a vivid memory of being at the pool, where I watched Ben Kingsley do laps at the old Four Seasons!”
Nudged by increased film production in town, and the coinage of the term, Hollywood North, Yorkville turned into a celebrity fishbowl starring Mel Gibson, Rod Stewart, Cher and the like. The strengthening of TIFF – then called the Festival of Festivals – also gave the place a certain heat. Govani continued, “still others cart memories of its second metamorphosis in the 80s and early 90s when Yuppies ran amok, and the area became a kind of a ground zero for the Bonfire of the Vanities era. For those roaming about Yorkville in this age of hashtags and right-swiping, it might be entirely lost to them that in the 1960s, it really as a village unto itself – the Canadian counterpart to Greenwich and Haight-Ashbury!” Govani shared, “long before there was a Nespresso, or a Whole Foods, or a STK Steak, there was a hood where young, still-undiscovered poets like Margaret Atwood would do readings at the long-gone Bohemian Embassy, and where the classic, equally nostalgia-giving Riverboat provided a stage to nascent talents like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. Cafe Boulud at Four Seasons Hotel Torontoĭobbernationloves sat down with Toronto’s favourite social columnist and author of the novel, Boldface Names, Shinan Govani to chat about the history of restaurants in Yorkville.Best Restaurants in Yorkville in Downtown Toronto.
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