After a week of eating a lot, there’s not much to blog about this week, but here are some tid-bits around the city and my kitchen:
Izakaya Ju will be opening in unit #3 up at J-Town at the end of the month apparently. Any good? Who knows. But you can get a taste of their [...]
My Wednesday was a bit of a mind-melt. Akin to the mind-melt they had when the earth was at the center of the solar system and some wank named Copernicus was stirring things up. It began with the following Twitter exchange:
@CharliesBurgers Received a box of 4 Laduree Macaroons from Paris. The Rolls Royce of macaroons. [...]
By now, some of you may have figured out that I love dining out and eating new, as well as familiar, foods. But Toronto’s Winterlicious and Summerlicious events are the two times of the year where I strategically plan to not eat out. At least, not at any participating restaurant. While I’m not averse to [...]
With all the holiday craziness going on, I hadn’t planned to post anything until at least next week. But after pointing out the Brown Rice Bowl “Baja Style” from Lady Marmalade twice today, I thought I’d do a round up of my favourite dishes that I’d eaten this year last year. While there’s seemingly no connection [...]
My sister is awesome.
While traveling Europe, she sent home some Ladurée macarons with a friend. Knowing that it would be a long and arduous journey for such delicate cookies (5 days!) before they got into my hands, she came up with a game-plan for optimal freshness. While they didn’t all perfectly survive, (I will suggest [...]
There’s some extensive eating planned for this coming week and it starts tomorrow when we try to hit up Elemental at the Gas Works. I’d been there last year and had a great meal. Also lined up is the obligatory visit to Pike Place Market. Plus a whole host of other eats I hadn’t got [...]
Hey, I know we’ve been neglecting you guys lately. Real posts are coming — several pictorials in the works. Instead gonna mention a few things about my shopping trip today.
Loblaws on Queen’s Quay had a huge bounty of fresh mushrooms today! Morels, which I’d never seen there before — porcini and maitake [...]
Went to Golden Turtle for dinner, maybe only the 3rd or 4th time ever. Server brought out a dish of hot peppers with to go with my pho before I had even mentioned them — guess she remembered me and that I always ask for some. Very cool. Big tip.
Fine dining to me is that ultimate experience where a meal shines from start to finish. Dishes that are “merely” good are few amongst the sublime and revelatory. Service, attentive without being obtrusive, becomes a ballet and sees dishes that elegantly float to the table with precision and coordination. Knowledgeable and encouraging staff guide and [...]
Local food boards had been abuzz in the past 1-2 years with the news that Toronto was soon to expand “street food” legislation to include foods other than hot dogs. Foodies rejoiced, politicians espoused the wonders of diverse offerings, and local media poured on the hype. Then earlier this year, we started hearing about the [...]
