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Major Toronto streets typically taste like asphalt and broken dreams. However, come summertime, select thoroughfares soak up the surrounding epicurean ambiance, drag it out of doors, and press it to the tongues of lucky urbanites. The city's most famous roadway extravaganza: Taste of the Danforth. Now in its 15th year, the three-day festival takes over the titular street in a huge celebration of Greek culture. Cars are barred from Broadview eastward as area restaurants --largely but not exclusively Greek -- set up stalls and ad hoc kitchens to satiate gluttonous revelers. Large beer tents lubricate the proceedings, while traditional and contemporary bands take over the mid-street stage and a series of other attractions distract over a million fest-goers from increasingly stressed belts. Taste of the Danforth runs from Friday, August 8th until Sunday, August 10th.