A Foraging Adventure in Wales
Fancy a foraging adventure? How about exploring the backcountry beauty and bounty of Wales while gathering food that’s fresh, tasty, local and more importantly free? It seems everyone is planning a foraging outing nowadays and...
DaiLo: Chef Nick Liu’s #sickasianfood
We ran into Chef Nick Liu a couple of nights ago at trendy DINE and Destinations launch party and got us thinking of our first great evening savouring Chef Liu’s fabulous ‘New Asian Cuisine’ appropriately hashtagged,...
The Detox Diaries: Work Day
Ok: It’s a work day. Let’s see how this goes. Gurgling stomach continues: I run to the bathroom two hours before my usual rising time. The Wild Rose Herbal laxative (the second set of three bitter pills) is definitely working. I...
An Interview with Llangoed Hall’s Chef Nick Brodie
Nick Brodie is a very busy man. Between heading up the kitchen at Llangoed Hall in Wales, picking up two recent awards including Condé Nast’s ‘Best Green Practices’ for 2016 and claiming the number 29 spot...
A Rainy Night Dinner at Eastside Social
Tuesday, wet, rainy. Seemed a perfect day to head east to Leslieville and dinner at Eastside Social with my partner and our good friend Brian. ‘A Tuesday in July, shouldn’t be a problem getting a table’ says...
Eyal Liebman’s Sweet Dreams: Food Beyond This Point
When last I hooked up with Chef Eyal Liebman, he was tempting my senses with a chocolaty Beef Wellington: locally sourced beef loin, wrapped in chocolate crêpe and house made puff pastry with sauce poivrade and wild mushrooms....
Chef Robbie Hojilla Resurfaces at The Harbord Room
We were greatly relieved to stumble upon Chef Robbie Hojilla, late of the now-defunct Hudson Kitchen and share his seasonal, ‘root to leaf’ inspirational food in the hopping, beigey, rosey sun-dappled Monday evening Harbord Room....
The Very UN-Pub(ish) Saint John Ale House
When I began my research for our Saint John, New Brunswick overnight, pre-Princess of Acadia ferry ride to Digby, Nova Scotia, I readily admit my skepticism when the Saint John Tourism Rep sent me a list of potential dining...
Lunching in the NSW Parliament Dining Room
Our social whirl continues unabated – Eric has arranged that Graham, Greg and I are lunching in the NSW Parliament Dining Room, where he is one of the chefs. Graham picks us up and off we go, in high style. Parking in the...