Lucky Dip – Monday, November 14th, 2011
Cooked versus raw – or – maybe this is why people on raw food diets are so slim. [Globe and Mail] More than 30 years after his death, Colonel Harland Sanders will become a published author – online no...
View ArticleShut Yo’ Mouth – Stuff I Wrote This Week – Saturday, November 20th, 2011
Wining and Dining with Natalie MacLean Eat like a Maya at the ROM Scarpetta says nuts to you! Intervin Gourmet Gala will be high-light of the Food & Wine Expo LUMA pays tribute to Grace Kelly...
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A couple of weeks back, I got an email inviting Greg and I to a pop-up dinner called The Loving Plateful. This was the real deal, taking part in a wood shop at Dufferin and Dupont, and organized by...
View ArticleShut Yo’ Mouth – Stuff I Wrote This Week – Saturday, November 26th, 2011
The chefs, they are a-moving Pizzeria Libretto (East) opens today Against the Grain warms up for winter Distillery Christmas Market offers good eats Pangaea rings in winter with a new menu The Dukes...
View ArticleLucky Dip – Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
Give him a flat surface and an electrical outlet and Matt Kantor can cook up a gourmet meal pretty much anywhere. [Toronto Star] There are your run-of-the-mill foodies, and then there are the folks who...
View ArticleShut Yo’ Mouth – Stuff I Wrote This Week – Saturday, November 12th, 2011
The Windsor Arms goes vegan Here comes Santa Claus, right past Jamie Kennedy at the Gardiner Restaurant news – Cafe Belong, Hrvati Bar Street Fight on Mill Street Is Parkdale about to get a taste of...
View ArticleSmörgåsbord – Splendido, beer bistro, Keriwa Cafe
I seem to have amassed a sizeable collection of photos of recently-eaten meals that I’ve never gotten around to posting. In part to share the food porn love and to clear out my files before year-end,...
View ArticleLucky Dip – Thursday, November 10th, 2011
I hope to hell that my friend Steven Davey compiled this list of meaty dishes from Toronto restaurants over a year’s worth of reviews and didn’t spend the last few weeks running around town on a meat...
View ArticleOutta Luck
Heya Readers, I am taking a break from the Lucky Dip column for a week or so, in part to avoid all of the US Thanksgiving stuff clogging my RSS feed and in part to work on a few other things that are...
View ArticleLucky Dip – Monday, November 28th, 2011
Oh, hippies… Occupy Toronto protesters have taken over the basement of St. Patrick’s Market, a building owned by the city but leased out to various food shops, and the soon-to-be home of The Grove food...
View ArticleSome Day My Prince Will (Probably Not) Come
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you know that I got tickets to see Prince on Saturday night, totally spur of the moment, outstanding 8th row seats with an amazing view, regularly $200,...
View ArticleShut Yo’ Mouth – Stuff I Wrote This Week – December 3rd, 2011
Splendido does lunch, European style Restaurant closings Cast your vote for Toronto’s best restaurants The Rhino takes on the world Trevor offers lunch in December JK Gardiner hosts a holiday Friday...
View ArticleShut Yo’ Mouth – Stuff I Wrote This Week – December 10th, 2011
Sandwiches and sticky toffee pudding – together at last Foodie nights at Fabarnak December events at the Rusholme Park Supper Club Auberge du Pommier gets festive Winchester Kitchen unveils a new menu...
View ArticleLucky Dip – Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
Wait now… people lined up to get into a grocery store? And they weren’t even giving away anything good like a free turkey? And there wasn’t anything like a natural disaster or an alien attack about to...
View ArticleSmörgåsbord – Tutti Matti, Debu, The Four Seasons
Look, more Smörgåsbord! A few weeks back, we headed up to Mount Pleasant to do some shopping. Our mission was Ontario buckwheat flour from Culinarium, but we stopped at Debu’s for their awesome...
View ArticleLucky Dip – Thursday, December 1st, 2011
You’ll laugh your butt off at this, then feel guilty for doing so. And when it comes to selling fast food chicken, it’s a bit of a stretch. But who doesn’t enjoy the occasional playful dictator? [Daily...
View ArticleLucky Dip – Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Occupy Toronto squatters get kicked out of the basement of St. Patrick Market, but vow to find another place to squat where they can distribute food to the poor. Oh goody, I’m sure the poor people are...
View ArticleShut Yo’ Mouth – Stuff I Wrote This Week – December 10th, 2011
Sandwiches and sticky toffee pudding – together at last Foodie nights at Fabarnak December events at the Rusholme Park Supper Club Auberge du Pommier gets festive Winchester Kitchen unveils a new menu...
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Lucky Dip – Monday, December 12th, 2011
Rob Ford looks only to the here and now, and fails to look at the long-term viability of city programs set to be chopped. Such as the school nutrition programs that keep violence down, test scores up...
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Lucky Dip – Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Even at Christmas, friends, it is unwise to accept drinks from strangers, as these visitors to a Berlin Christmas market discovered last week. [Spiegel Online] Nutty as a fruitcake. The folks at...
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