What These days, it seems that a neighbourhood just isn’t a neighbourhood without its own gourmet-casual burger shop. Brock Shepherd, capitalizing on the new trend, has transformed his previous venture, the Rice Bar, into a western saloon-inspired Burger Bar, thus admitting Kensington Market into the burger club. Why In keeping with the area’s green scene (the vegan Urban Herbivore is just across the street) Shepherd uses naturally raised organic beef and eco-friendly takeout containers exclusively, hoping to satisfy both the environmentalist and the carnivore.

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