Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Our Lady of Good Counsel @ College & Ossington: Best Toronto Soup Kitchen You Never Heard of

Praise the lord! This unassuming Caribbean Catholic church will make your Wednesday. Every Wednesday.

So they open around 8 or 9am to let people in from the cold and grab some coffee and what have you, and then at 11am, watch out. Watch the fuck out. They will they will feed you. These ladies don't stop until you're unable to leave because you're too full. Today, they started us off with some salad, well-dressed, and then comes the hearty veggie soup, and then they start laying the groceries on us. They gave us fishes - whole fishes. Boxes of cookies. Granola bars. Orange Pekoe in bags. The good kind. And candies. Tons of them. We all came away with grocery bags full of it. My girlfriend is going to think I robbed a grocery store out of desperation.

I was the only anglo there. Everybody else was Portuguese and there were a couple Chinese ladies up in there. The ladies serving us were all Caribbean sweethearts. Only 18 people showed up, and it looks like that's what they were expecting.

And it's 100% evangelism-free.

Here's where 'tis:

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