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buildings to provide a nice indoor courtyard that seems outdoors.
The village is probably best known for two eating places. Cafe du
Midi makes use of the glass -enclosed courtyard to provide a
diningroom with a Mediterranean flavour. The palm trees, the
ivy covered walls, the brickwork and the stylish outdoor furniture
all give it a pleasant, relaxed feeling. It also presents concerts
from time to time.
Informality is also the theme of Goodies, an indoor restaurant
that also likes to be a part of outdoors with its decor of plants,
natural wood and plenty of light. Goodies has become a popular
spot for the younger set in the city. It's a favourite spot for
luncheons as well as dinners. It takes no reservations so you can
just drop in.
There's yet another eating spot in the complex: The Village
Cafe off Richmond itself.
Right nextdoor to the Village Cafe is Workouts, a shop
specializing in those slick body suit outfits that can be used
either for gymnastics and dancing or with accessories for more
formal occasions. Inside the Village are a number of small
interesting shops. There's a gift shop called Fancy That. There's
a shop filled with everything in a sporting line for ladies called
Sonny's Sportique. But of all the little shops in the centre
perhaps the one that makes the greatest contribution to the
variety of the whole shopping area on Richmond North is The
Madrigal. It's a tiny record shop with thousands of records and
tapes of a more classical nature. It isn't highbrow exactly. Many
of the classics are there all right but so are some more modern
popular records such as a full selection of The Canadian Brass,
Liona Boyd, and soundtracks from movies and broadway shows.
Missing are the hard -rock sounds of most record stores these
days. In its place is a wide selection of the kind of records just not
found in the usual shop catering to the top 40 crowd.
Not all the shops in the Oxford area are situated in the Village.
There are shops both along Picadilly east and west of Richmond.
At Oxford on the west side of Richmond there's a new
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development that included a couple of unique shops:
Locksmithy, specializing in locks and Phone Mart offering a wide
selection of decorator telephones to set your home apart from
your neighbours. Just next door to these is another eating spot
for the district called Pickles.
The book lover will find temptation along here too with the
large Oxford Bookshop on the east side of Richmond. It has a
More temptations
for book lovers
wide selection of books and a more personalized atmosphere
than the book suaermarkets of the big chains though not as
personal as The Country Mouse. Its selection is wider than
many shops though probably because this is just down the street
from the University of Western Ontario one of Canada's largest
universities and the student market has to be a major part of the
stores business. So one can find the classics and many other
more scholarly books than might be found elsewhere.
On the west side of Richmond south of the village there's also
a paper book exchange.
The area is one that deserves plenty of time for exploring to
find some of the little treasure shops that aren't in the
concentrated area described here. It certainly deserves more
than the time many people give it as they breeze through either
on their way into the city to shop downtown or in one of the Targe
shopping centres or on their way out of the city to the countryside
to the north. ❑
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