Super excited! The local market is opening this weekend and I can’t wait to get down there and taste some yummy local veggies. Our local food has started coming into my restaurant, Pagliaccis, in the past few weeks too and the kitchen looks alive again. Spring sure does have a way of doing that, even …
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Inspiring Our Kitchen
I’ve been in and around restaurants since I was 12 years old and washing dishes at my parents resto on the south shore of Nova Scotia. I have worked in downtown Toronto, uptown Toronto, in PEI, Collingwood and now out west and I gotta say, no matter where you go some things never change and yet others …
HO HO HO
Well I’m about to get into my Christmas cooking mode (read: red wine opened and music cranked). For me it is Polish delights on the 24th and tukey on the 25th. The perogi assembly-line usually kicks into highgear around 8pm on the 23rd and takes us well into the early hours of the next morning, …
whats the deal with that?…….
Oh goodness it must be Christmas! Here’s what i don’t understand though……Why is it that the restaurant feels more busy than usual??? Our numbers are the same at November, 100+ covers at lunch and nearing 200 for dinner. Sales are just a touch higher but mostly due to more booze being sold. I don’t get …
over easy(?)
200!!!! thats the average amount of covers we do at brunch on a Sunday and this place is tiny. We squeeze 56 some odd seats in (mostly deuces) and the kitchen is smaller than my one at home……props to the staff, somehow they don’t kill anyone and the day goes smoothly.
Its my 1st time…..go easy on me.
Ok, so here I am. What do you want to know???? I’ve recently moved some 4500 km away from my home and landed a killer job at a fun/funky/crazy busy joint and this is my journey………. I just finished my 3rd day on the new job and for the first time i felt comfortable there. …