{"id":524,"date":"2012-04-20T16:51:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T20:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2012-04-20T16:51:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T20:51:36","slug":"st-lawrence-market-finds-ponesse-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/20\/st-lawrence-market-finds-ponesse-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Lawrence Market finds: Ponesse Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wordpress-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ponessefoods.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-525\" title=\"ponessefoods\" src=\"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wordpress-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ponessefoods.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ponessefoods.jpg 530w, https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ponessefoods-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No one was probably more pleased than us when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwharf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Market Wharf<\/a>\u2019s favourite neighbour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlawrencemarket.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Lawrence Market<\/a>, was named the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/story\/2012\/04\/04\/tor-stlawrence-market.html\" target=\"_blank\">world&#8217;s best food market<\/a> by National Geographic.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This accolade is hardly surprising though, since St. Lawrence Market has a wide selection of culinary treasures to satisfy any market aficionado.<\/p>\n<p>Because we\u2019re really big fans of St. Lawrence Market and everything that it has to offer, we&#8217;ve decided to do a regular series on some our favorite finds from the market.<\/p>\n<p>First up this week is Ponesse foods. It\u2019s a family affair, run by Rocco and his sons Mike and Mario and they have the biggest and best selection of fresh fruits and vegetables in the market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wordpress-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ponessefoods2.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wordpress-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ponessefoods3.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wordpress-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ponessefoods2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-534\" title=\"ponessefoods2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wordpress-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ponessefoods2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ponessefoods2.jpg 530w, https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ponessefoods2-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wordpress-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ponessefoods5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-532\" title=\"ponessefoods5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wordpress-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ponessefoods5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ponessefoods5.jpg 530w, https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ponessefoods5-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re also a major supplier for restaurant\u2019s here in Toronto so they definitely know their stuff. You\u2019re also sure to find a high variety of quality fruits and vegetables at a great price.<\/p>\n<p>Their fresh strawberries are to die for! \u00a0We also highly recommend that you buy and bite into one of their succulent pomegranates or try their deliciously ripe mangoes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wordpress-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/strwberries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-530\" title=\"strwberries\" src=\"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wordpress-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/strwberries.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/strwberries.jpg 537w, https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/strwberries-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make sure to get there early in the day so that you can snatch up the freshest supplies!<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you a regular at St.Lawrence Market? What\u2019s your favourite thing at the market?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one was probably more pleased than us when Market Wharf\u2019s favourite neighbour St. Lawrence Market, was named the world&#8217;s best food market by National Geographic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[62,144,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}