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Welcome to Toronto’s most expensive restaurant. This article comes to us courtesy of my buddy Jonas who found it in the Toronto Star. While I admit that the prices are, in fact, high, after reading the article, I am not sure that they are not worth it. I go for dinner at Hashimoto in Don …
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Here are some more beautiful looking plates from our East coast correspondent, Urban Newf. As always, his plates are creative, clean and very appealing. Thanks buddy and keep up the sexy plates.
Anthony Bourdain is pretty well known. Unlike some of his contemporaries, he has done a good job of keeping close to his personality. While some other celebrity chefs have poured their efforts into reality shows, toothpaste commercials, prepared foods, gimmicky food appliances and dumbed down chain restaurants, Bourdain has kept his efforts focused on food. …
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 …
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 …
This little restaurant has been attracting a lot of buzz in Toronto in the past few years. The chef, Grant van Gameren, is a veteran of Lucien, Canoe and Amuse Bouche and is very adamant about challenging his customers’ taste buds with cured meats and offal. His restaurant is always packed, they don’t take reservations …
I was recently over for dinner at a friends house. He brought out a few books that his dad had rescued from a local thrift store. One giant and slightly off smelling tome, called “The Creative Cooking Course”, is an opus to haute cuisine of the late 60’s and 70’s shown through the jaded eyes …
Before the advent of the food network, before the glut of celebrity chefs, before glam cook books, there was Marco Pierre White. Know publicly as the first ‘rock star’ chef, Mr. White was far more.
A very dear friend of ours was in town over the holidays and to celebrate we christened my new kitchen with a delicious meal, lots of wine and very good company. These dinners are something of a tradition, it all starts at the grocery store. My wife refuses to partake in this often excruciatingly slow, …
I’ve always wanted to try this, so when Loblaws had prime rib at an obscenely reasonable price, it was destiny. The first time I had salt crusted prime rib was in a tiny little town in Arizona. I was working at a copper mine in Bagdad and staying in Wickenburg (SP? but really who cares). …
Hello all and a very Happy New Year!!! Welcome to a new decade hopefully filled with scrumptious food and yummy num nums…. Anyways, so over the Christmas break I perfected a cake I enjoy very much and that is Strawberry Shortcake. Although winter is generally not a season to be making anything involving fresh strawberries, …
Christmas has always been one of my favorite times of the year, not for the time off work or the drunken stumbling of friends and family although they do go hand in hand. The Christmas season would not be the same without it, Christmas to me is being with family, eating amazing homemade food and …
I set out to make a dinner for my friends as a way to close out 2009. It had been a year of many changes and I wanted a fitting meal to say farewell with.
Off the top of my head I can think of a few menus under $20 that are simple to make and easy on the budget. I live in Germany so trying to compare costs of food here to cost of food there.
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, …