Ten Years Ago, The Events Of Suits ALSO Happened In Toronto

I'll say this for you, Suits location scouts: this week, you did not make it easy for me to figure out where you were when you were pretending to be in New York ten years ago! I still did, though.

Screens: USA

Here's Mike (Patrick J. Adams) and Trevor (Tom Lipinski) back when they were students at what I guess is supposed to be Columbia. I wasn't able to positively identify the beautiful walkway at right, except to determine that it is at the University of Toronto, based on the fact that it appears in a post from The Varsity, U of T's school newspaper. It's sandwiched between a paragraph on Innis College and a paragraph on the Shore + Moffatt Architecture Landscape And Design Library, but it doesn't seem to belong to either of those. I'm going to assume that it's one of the buildings on the beautiful Trinity College Quad. "Hey Tara, didn't you go to U of T?" First of all, mind your own business. Second, yes I did, but only for a year, and I didn't spend a lot of time exploring places where I didn't have classes because I lived off-campus and even then had a lot of TV to watch. This was in the days before DVRs, you guys.

The diner where Donna (Sarah Rafferty) and Harvey (Gabriel Macht) hammer out the terms that will bring her to Pearson Hardman with him is Lakeview Lunch; the photo shows the view from the front door, so...obviously reversed from what appeared on screen. Lakeview Lunch is a location I'm very familiar with because it was walking distance from our second apartment in Toronto and we ate there a lot, even though the food was extremely average when not actively bad -- like, for instance, the time I found a plastic twist tie in my french fries. And yes, we ate there many more times after that. Well, it had something for both of us! I often felt like breakfast outside of breakfast hours, which Lakeview Lunch did pretty okay. Am I wearing you out with my faint praise of Lakeview Lunch? If you're in the area, I implore you, go to Utopia on College instead. I wish I could go there right now.

OH HI SKYLINE. From left: Shangri-La (bonus: while this episode takes place (in New York) in 2003, Shangri-La was not completed until 2012); Scotia Plaza; Commerce Court; First Canadian Place. Would identifying just one of these buildings have been sufficient to point out the utter sham of the show's alleged New York-itude? Sure. But I went the extra kilometre. You're welcome.