From sworn enemies to sandwich buddies.

Mayor Rob Ford and his harshest critic, Councillor Adam Vaughan, celebrated passage of the 2013 City of Toronto budget by eating side by side, surrounded by eight council colleagues in Little Italy.

Councillor Doug Ford said the Wednesday lunch outing was to settle a bet over whether council would finish voting on its contentious spending plan before 1 p.m. Councillors kept inviting colleagues and they arrived in two groups at San Francesco Foods on Clinton St. before moving next door to the Monarch Tavern.

The mayor walked in. Vaughan scooched over.

“I pulled up a chair and said, ‘Have a seat, Rob, welcome to the ’hood,” Vaughan said. “This notion that we’re always at each other’s throats just isn’t true.”

Conversation topics at the table included football, which Florida coast is warmer and the mayor’s aversion to spicy foods.

“They were joking, having fun . . . It was a good day today — best day in two years,” said Councillor Doug Ford.

Councillor Paul Ainslie snapped a photo of the historic moment, which also included colleagues Josh Colle, Frances Nunziata, Anthony Perruzza, Joe Mihevc, John Filion, Mark Grimes and Jaye Robinson.

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