text: We went as a family almost every Friday (when it was a West side of Spadina restaurant) for pretty much my entire teen years, even recruited my best friend from high school and his family to the cause   ... and now that I have lived out of town for over 25 years crossed to the east side of the street and went back when we could with my girlfriend (then wife) and then our children often with my parents and brother (and eventually his wife) in tow.
  
  As for off menu ordering "old #1 - assorted cold cuts" (with nothing actually cold but hey that was the whole charm of it)".  
  
  A (or more correctly another) part of my youth is definately gone but the great intergenerational memories of family, friends and food remain and that as they say "is priceless".