Toronto

Baton Rouge is a restaurant I recommend. Pretty damn good.

CN Tower is definitely worth the trip once. The glass floor, and view is great.

Casa Loma is a cool tour. Hockey Hall of Fame of course. If you want into some cool geekery go to the Silver Snail on Queen Street.

https://www.silversnail.com/default.html

Can't thing of too much else with a baby in tow.

I spent most of my one & only visit to Toronto in the Brass Rail strip club. Although I had a really great time & would recommend it, it doesn't seem quite like what you're looking for. Sorry.

The Zoo was incredible from what I remember, but it's pretty far from the downtown core I believe.

Though you can get there via public transportation, the zoo is indeed extremely far from your area. If the child was a bit older, and could muck around the water park a little (and if it wasn't a crappy a day as it is today), I think it'd be worth it though.

As for dinnery type places, the Red Tea Box on Queen West is supposed to be unbelievable, if a little pricey at $25 a head. It's open solely for lunches/early dinner, but the place looks fantastic. I'll be taking my wife there for her birthday next week myself.

The Museum I hadn't been to since the revamp, but having gone last week to check it out along with the new Darwin exhibit, I'd say its well worth it as well. Its baby friendly enough too- lotta hands on stuff, lotta activities to do (you can dress your child up in all sorts of period costumes available!). Fun times. I'm not sure how long you're around, but its half price on Friday evenings, and free for an hour on wednesday afternoons. Afterwards, you can cross the street to Pho Hung, a dirt cheap and family friendly Vietnamese restaurant. If you think you can traverse the labyrinth menu, you can walk out of the place stuffed for a 25 dollar tab.

As for geekery or interesting shopping, just start at Yonge St. and Bloor and walk downwards to your area. Plenty to see and browse, from old records to fantastic secondhand and rare book places to interesting clothing and furniture choices. Nice selection of comics too over at Grey Region and Million Comixx (and right across that the cheapest Korean place in toronto, Yummy BBQ, that'll get you some authentic Korean flavor for $18 between two people).

I've basically laid out my last two weeks worth of outings for you. Well, that and starbucks. But you have that everywhere.

Enjoy the city!

Oh man, the holiday. Completely forgot. I think everything is closed except for major malls. Go get your booze now, those are closed too.

Silver Snail's the comic icon- they have the best looking store and displays (enormous Iron Man cutout near the stairs for the second floor, pretty cool Indiana Jones window display currently) and the second floor is almost entirely Star Wars toys. Also a huge selection of indie stuff. Can't go wrong here

Million Comixx/Grey Region nexus is my stop, mainly because of proximity, that they're much friendlier, give free bags/boards on all purchases, have a huge trade section. They are also always discounting their stuff, and have a 20% sale on everything going down right now, if you're looking to spend. Apparently, their manga section cant be beat, but i have no real way of knowing. My brain dose not compute such things.

Going to Comixx on Yonge also gives you the option of crossing the street and getting some very awesome hookahs and bongs though. That might seal it, no?

I really had good Italian food at Alice Fazooli's - they're on 294 Adelaide Street West. Here's the website: http://www.alicefazoolis.com/

Sorry for the lousy weather; hope you had a good time.

Next time, head to Yonge Street!