Recap: My Big Fat Greek Dinner With Reel Eats
Just over a week ago I cooked a meal for over 30 food and cinema enthusiasts organized by my friends at Real Eats. The evening’s theme was centered around the very popular comedy “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and I was given the pleasure of creating a menu that would pay homage to the movie. […]
Kalofagas Greek Supper Club – An Evening in Florina Recap
My bones are a little achy today but I’m beaming (still) after last night’s Supper Club with a focus on the cuisine of Florina. Being that this region is where my parents are from, I went into this dinner very confident but also still worried because I knew some folks would be there who shared […]
Thalassa! Thalassa! July 10th Greek Supper Club Recap
I just received the fabulous photos of last week’s Greek Supper Club held on the rooftop of a condo in the Fashion District of downtown Toronto. The memories are still fresh in my mind but I want to share this fabulous evening for those of you who couldn’t make it or you’re thinking about attending […]
Kalofagas Greek Supper Club – An Evening in the Cyclades (Recap)
This past Tuesday I cooked for my second Greek Supper Club with a menu inspired by the cuisine of the Cyclades islands. The menu was ambitious, lots of thought and work went into the meal, with an eye to providing my guests with Greek hospitality like one experiences when visiting a Greek home. The location […]
Windows in Niagara Falls by Jamie Kennedy
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 […]
Gaia Greek Dinner at Malena
Just two nights ago some lucky folks here in Toronto got to experience the first of many Greek cuisine-themed dinners I hope to organize in the future. Beyond organizing dinners at my home or other people’s residences this was the first to be held at a restaurant. I chose Malena because I love the warm […]
An Evening in Greece, Dinner at Estiatorio Malena
I’m delighted to announce that Estiatorio Malena and myself are co-hosting a dinner titled “an evening in Greece”. Yorkville’s Malena has been entertaining dinner guests for almost two years with its Ionian cuisine – influenced from the Italian and Greek cuisine that hugs the Ionian Sea. “An evening in Greece” takes place on Wednesday, March […]
Reel Eats – Eat Drink Man Woman
Last night I attended the first Reel Eats dinner event, created by Mary Luz Meija and Mario Stojanic of Sizzling Communications. The Reel Eats concept is a dinner menu focused on a food-centric movie and story-telling is interspersed between courses. Although the movie is playing in the background, it’s hard to pay close attention to […]
Diner en Blanc
I first heard about Diner en Blanc this past summer while I was in Greece. I was invited to this flash-mob-cum-al fresco dinner-cum picnic and I agreed to go but I really wasn’t sure what the big stink was. I was in Greece, within walking distance of an azzure beach that I swam at twice […]
An Evening With Stelios Boutaris at Malena
I recently attended a dinner that was organized by Kolonaki Group (Steve Kriaris) who specializes in bringing Greek wines & spirits into Ontario and Quebec. The dinner would be held in the newly opened Estiatorio Malena, located on the ritzy stretch of Avenue Road, just north and across from Hazelton Lanes. Malena’s cuisine is described […]