I'm planning a family trip to Toronto for a 4 day weekend in October. I'm trying to pick a great location that will allow us to step out the front door and walk to dinner or shopping. A couple of times I've booked hotels in other cities thinking the location was great, but we ended up in more of the business district and the only restaurants open past 5pm were super fancy business dinner type places. We're driving, so we will have a car, but we'd much rather leave it parked and walk the city. I know more Canadians on this board than anywhere else in my life, so I thought I'd ask.

Frugal over fancy for this trip. We'd rather save our money for a nice dinner instead of a super fancy hotel, but I do like secure and clean.

Any suggestions?