Restaurants and dining out
Celebrity chef, Mark McEwan, launched his campaign, Dine & Discover, which raises funds for research at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre at his restaurant, North 44 on Tuesday. This was a cocktails and dinner party featuring speakers such as Dr. Michael Julius, Vice-President of Research at Sunnybrook Research Institute as well as Mark McEwan himself. The […]
This past weekend, relatives from many cities, including Hong Kong, Singapore and New York gathered in Toronto for a big reunion. It was four nights of dinners (plus one luncheon hosted by yours truly) featuring three nights of Asian food (two nights of Chinese and one of Chinese inspired Japanese) and one catered by DelectablyChic! […]
There are those who believe that classics should remain classics and no one should make changes to them, especially when it comes to food. If done carefully enough, twists can be a good thing, especially if it is properly named (i.e. not like the Brad Pitt Chanel ad I discussed yesterday). In fact, I think […]
Yes to Fresh, a not-so-fast food place on King and Jarvis is a mix between Freshii and Sandwich Box. The menu features sandwiches, salads as well as rice or noodle bowls and diners can pick what they want with their meal via a slip of paper on a clipboard, similar to Freshii (unlike Freshii, there […]
The newest location of Balzac Coffee opened at the Toronto Reference Library on Yonge, just north of Bloor just a little over a month ago and recently, I stopped in for some breakfast. I’ve been to other Balzac locations before, including a very artsy spot at the Distillery District, so I wasn’t expecting too much […]
We first visited this restaurant over two years ago when the site was still called Prospere Magazine. Things haven’t changed much – meals are still ordered from a slip (similar to those seen at dim sum restaurants), with a huge range of soup noodles (both rice and wheat based, beef, chicken and vegetarian choices as […]
For my birthday, my husband and I celebrated by having dinner at Scarpetta’s only non-US location. Scarpetta, which means “little shoe” or that crusty piece of bread used to soak up sauce at the end of the meal is located at the trendy Thompson Hotel. Founded by celebrity chef Scott Conant, there are also locations […]
While the days of the dial up modem and AOL are now long gone, to many social media obsessed, the late 90s movie, You’ve Got Mail! is seen as the very first movie about online life. Though it seems that Starbucks was the major “star” when it came to real places (side note: one thing […]
Eataly is perhaps one of the most interesting foodie spots in New York. Part market and part restaurant, this 50,000 square foot space, it is the American location of a space of the same name located in Torino, Italy. The New York location has several sit down dining spaces, each specializing in a different type […]
Last week, t-buds a tea lounge in the Yonge and Lawrence area of Toronto launched their Life Stages teas at an intimate event. The teas, which are blends from various herbs, are made for different people at different points in their lives. Made with unique blends of both traditional and ayurvedic herbs, there are everyone, […]
