Thanks for checking us out!If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.Today, just before noon, an attractive young woman walked into my office carrying lunch for six people from Jack Astor’s. They sent out free lunches to selected local businesses to promote their new lunch menu, and speedy lunchtime service. [...]
Archive for the 'Food & Wine' Category
Who Says There’s No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!?
Published by May 12th, 2009 in 2009, Chris, Food & Wine, Goin' Out and Ideas!. 0 CommentsNew Year’s Eve at The Devonshire Inn
Published by January 3rd, 2009 in 2008, Chris and Leah, Food & Wine, Goin' Out and Travel. 0 CommentsOn our return journeys from Kingston, Leah and I routinely detour through Prince Edward County. It’s by no means a short cut, but the scenery is nice, and the wine and hospitality are even better. We’ve commented that we’d like to go back for an overnight and stay at one of the numerous inns – so for [...]
Drink Outside the Box
Published by August 18th, 2008 in 2008, Big Idea, Chris, Climate Change, Complaints and Food & Wine. 1 CommentA great idea that needs to be acted on. Now.
From The New York Times
By TYLER COLMAN
Published: August 17, 2008
ITALY’S Agriculture Ministry announced this month that some wines that receive the government’s quality assurance label may now be sold in boxes. That’s right, Italian wine is going green, and for some connoisseurs, the sky might as [...]
Ever since I saw the movie Sideways, I’ve held to the notion that any day is a good day to enjoy a great bottle of wine. So on Wednesday night we sat down for some pasta and a glass of Henry of Pelham’s Baco Noir 2005 Reserve. Both of us are fans of this wine anyway – but I [...]
Grey Cup Weekend!
Published by November 25th, 2007 in 2007, Chris and Leah, Food & Wine, Friends and Goin' Out. 0 CommentsLeah and I spent the weekend in the city. Friday night we celebrated Dan’s birthday at College Street Bar. Last night we went out with Y&K to PJ O’Briens, followed by CanStage’s presentation of Little Shop of Horrors. After the show Y&K went home, while Leah and I retired to Sheraton (using one of our wedding gifts for a free nights stay [...]
Restaurant Review
Published by August 31st, 2007 in Chris and Leah, Food & Wine and Goin' Out. 0 CommentsFinally – after months of talking about how nice it would be if our neighbourhood had a restaurant we could walk to – someone finally heard our grumbling! Last night we left the car at home and followed sidewalk to a lovely place called Eden Trattoria. We were quickly greeted on the patio [...]
I’m already salivating for barbequed corn. But at the same time I am pissed off; who schedules Taste OF The Danforth and the Festival Of Beer for the same weekend???
We’ll be checking out the Taste as for the first time ever, corn is more appealing to me than beer.
A Couple of Perfect Etobicoke Days
Published by July 2nd, 2007 in 2007, Chris and Leah, Food & Wine and Goin' Out. 1 CommentLast night Leah and I rode our bikes along the Martin Goodman Trail to Ontario Place to watch the Canada Day / Canada Dry Festival Of Fire fireworks. It was amazing how many people were along the waterfront; also amazing was how many of them are idiots and don’t understand that there is a bike [...]
As of June 11th Prince Edward County, Ontario’s newest wine growing region, is producing VQA-approved wine. Richard Johnston, chairman of Prince Edward County Winegrowers Association, had this to say – “We are coming of age. In eight short but challenging years we have gone from being dismissed as preposterous dreamers for trying to grow fine [...]
Dinner at Izakaya
Published by April 27th, 2007 in 2007, Chris and Leah, Food & Wine and Goin' Out. 1 CommentTonight, as we do every Friday night, Leah and I went out for dinner. But for a change of scenery, we headed into the city. Our original plan was to have dinner at The Bier Markt, but the wait was 50 minutes, so we decided to wander up to Front Street and hit Spring Rolls. [...]
