Last week I dropped by Lisa Marie’s long awaited restaurant. After thousands of sandwiches, pop-ups, a food truck a TV show…now his own restaurant serving up Chiccetti…Italian-inspired small plates. Click the slide show below…you’ll be going to Lisa Marie’s soon! Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.
Jamie Kennedy has long been associated with local, seasonal cooking in the Toronto area (some say he led the movement) and now he’s spread his wings to Niagara Falls where he treated some lucky guests to a dinner atop of the Sheraton Hotel’s Windows restaurant overlooking both the American and Canadian Falls. Born and raised [...]
Yesterday was another gorgeous Spring day here in Toronto and it was also March 25th, Greek Independence Day – celebrating the beginning of the struggle for Greek independence from the Ottomans (Turks). After taking in the parade (most of it), we left early for the Greek Grill to get some seats before it was too [...]
Happy Chef was kind enough to send me a sample to review. I was sent a set of nine chef knives plus a nylon case for travel. The set begins with a 9″ chef knife and at the other end of the spectrum is a 12″ sharpening steel, carving fork and kitchen scissors. I liked [...]
Last week my travels took me about 2 1/2 hours southwest of Toronto to Stratford, Ontario. Despite my urges to go seek out the old Justin Bieber haunts (he’s from Stratford), I resisted and went directly to The Old Prune restaurant to taste the creations of Chef Paolo Lopriore from Siena’s Il Canto in the [...]
A couple of weekends ago I met an Ethiopian fellow and after chatting about foods, spices and the many, many foods and restaurants available here in Toronto, I asked Abye where one should go for Ethiopian food here in the city. He directed me to Dukem, named after the city that sits just south of [...]
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending an evening with Margrit Mondavi and the just one-month young Modus Ristorante. Margrit Mondavi is the widow of Napa Valley wine pioneer Robert Mondavi. Modus Ristorante is owned by Sam Genkov who you may remember from Restaurant Makeover (“I’m watching you”) where his Bravi [...]
The hamburger renaissance is large here in the Toronto area and from what I’ve been gleaning in the media, the same holds true throughout Canada and the US. Hamburger franchises are closing and new independent shops are opening up. Some of the new shops are merely new, glitzy shops offering the same ole’ processed [...]
Early in my vacation to Greece this summer (within the first week) we got our first rain. This could mean we get the usual one (o two) summer showers that are the usual or…this would be an omen of an unusually rainy summer. The latter scenario proved to be false and Summer of 2011 proved [...]
During the past week I’ve been vacationing on the island of Lefkada, located on the Ionian side of Greece. Lefkada is one of the few islands where a ferry boat is not used to reach it. Mainland Greece can be seen from the east side of the island and the other side faces the west, [...]
