Terroir and MC2 – coming attractions
Looks like Arlene Stein and the Terroir team have done it again – another extraordinary line-up for...
Category Archives: Life in General
Bar Senator
If you hanker to be the anti-hero of your very own film noir, I know the place where...
Time to vote?
My koubaros, Philip Parginos, sends me this photograph to remind me that spring has already arrived in the...
The history of Harry Rosen video
Harry Rosen has created rather a good video about the company's first 60 years. You can find it...
essential reading
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J-P Challet is moving on
I dropped into Ici Bistro this morning, invited by chef-patron Jean-Pierre Challet, who had some news he wanted...
Didier Leroy and The Fifth
Time travel is possible and I have experienced it. Last Thursday. At The Fifth. That famously slow freight...
Bero
[caption id="attachment_3000" align="alignleft" width="225"] Octopus at Bero[/caption] The Bero web site describes Chef Matt Kantor’s food as “modernist...
The Canadian Culinary Championships 2014 report
Let the competition begin! Famous last words on Thursday night as each of our competing champion chefs was...