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03.17.10
Super excited!
The local market is opening this weekend and I can’t wait to get down there and taste some yummy local veggies.
Inspiring Our Kitchen
posted by west coast toast on 2010.02.19, under Good Food, lesson learned, Mouthy Bits, recipes, Skills, Uncategorized
02.19.10
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 are entirely different.
HO HO HO
posted by west coast toast on 2009.12.23, under Good Food, lesson learned, Mouthy Bits, recipes, Skills, Uncategorized
12.23.09
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, rolling the dough, mashing the potatoes, frying the mushrooms. We always have a big pot of compote on the stove (glogi, to my Finnish friends) that make the house smell amazing. Its our potpori.
whats the deal with that?…….
posted by west coast toast on 2009.12.11, under Good Food, lesson learned, Mouthy Bits, recipes, Skills, Uncategorized
12.11.09
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 it? We are the type of place that is full all day/everyday ( which is great) so its not like we can fit anymore bodies in here but this week the lunches have been nutty. Servers are flying around the floor freaking out, the kitchen is extra moody and yet at the end of the day all is the same as the month before.
over easy(?)
11.27.09
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.
posted by west coast toast on 2009.11.19, under Good Food, lesson learned, Mouthy Bits, recipes, Skills, Uncategorized
11.19.09
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……….
