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Chapters: Grodzinski Bakery, Fran's Restaurant, Shopsy's, Richtree Market, Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant, Keg Mansion, the Rivoli, Arcadian Court, the Goof, Sneaky Dee's, Lick's Homeburgers, Albert's Real Jamaican Foods, Pickle Barrel, the Orbit Room, Johnny's Charcoal Broiled Hamburgers, Bistro 990, Panorama Lounge. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Grodzinski Bakery is a chain of kosher bakeries in London, England, where it is popularly known as "Grods," and in Toronto. In 1888, (although this date is still used in all publicity material and for Centenary celebrations, research at Public Records Office in Kew has indicated that they arrived in 1890) Harris and Judith Grodzinski, bakers by trade, joined many members of the Jewish community in Tsarist Lithuania in migrating westward from Voronova - a shtetl near Lida, currently Belarus, establishing themselves in the East End of London. There they hired kosher ovens and set out baking bilkelekh, thereby beginning a business that would grow from a trading barrow to a full-scale bakery at 31 Fieldgate Street, over which they lived. Harris and Judith were followed in the mid 1890s by Harris nephew, Chaim Elyah Grodzinski (later changed his name to Hyam Hyams and went into the cinema business with his sons Phil