Essential art
there is a young artist in Toronto whose work I love. It fills our house. And our garden....
Category Archives: Toronto
Nota Bene renewed
To Nota Bene for dinner to see how the restaurant has emerged from the chrysalis of renovation and...
Nota Bene presents David Lee’s Taste of August menu
To Nota Bene, to preview David Lee’s Taste of August menu – a most elegant expression of some of...
J-P Challet returns to The Fifth for summer
On perfect summer evenings like this one there is really no finer or more pleasant destination in the...
Pearl Diver
[caption id="attachment_3199" align="alignleft" width="300"] Pearl Diver's fabulous chowdah[/caption] I was overseas last summer when Patrick McMurray closed his...
Bar Senator
If you hanker to be the anti-hero of your very own film noir, I know the place where...
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 Carbon Bar
[caption id="attachment_2942" align="alignleft" width="300"] The Carbon Bar - image taken from the place's web site[/caption] It...