Sitemap
About Me Stories

A publication dedicated to bringing out the stories behind the writers themselves. A place of autobiographies. Types of personal stories include introductions, memoirs, self-reflections, and self-love.

Member-only story

A Subway Named Desire

6 min readDec 3, 2024

--

Romantic dinner setting
Credits: Photo by cottonbro studio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/fruits-on-the-table-6869487/

I did my research. What was the best, most exquisite dining establishment in Toronto, Canada? I needed to know because it was my wife’s 29th birthday. It had to be special. She was still in her 20s.

There was no such thing as the internet in those days.

Therefore, the research was more difficult. But I found the place. All the reviewers in the newspapers and magazines that I could find said, “Three Small Rooms”, was the place to dine.

Toronto Life is a monthly magazine about entertainment and life in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Recounting the 10 biggest moments in Toronto restaurants in the last 50 years, ranking chefs and dishes that mattered most, number 5 was Three Small Rooms. To be accurate, it might be within the last 55 years, as the article published on June 1, 2016.

Beauty and Charm; Then and Now

Credits: Photo by mwangi gatheca on Unsplash (Not a depiction of the Windsor Arms Hotel nor Three Small Rooms)

The Windsor Arms Hotel building dates back to 1927, when the nearby University of Toronto buildings were impressive architectural marvels. Hotelier William Arthur Price envisioned the four-story Windsor Arms Hotel in a…

--

--

About Me Stories
About Me Stories

Published in About Me Stories

A publication dedicated to bringing out the stories behind the writers themselves. A place of autobiographies. Types of personal stories include introductions, memoirs, self-reflections, and self-love.

No responses yet