Anytime I ask for a recommendation on the BEST brunch place in Montreal, the answer is unanimously Restaurant L’Avenue. Friends and critics agree that there is no other place like it, and that it has the most kickass eggs benedict in the city! This past weekend I got the opportunity to see what all the hype […]
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DIY Thursday: Grill Cheese
Our next DIY Thursday was dubbed “A Celebration of Cheese and Carbs” and it challenged us to come up with unique grill cheese sandwich. We had to consider the bread, the cheese and even the extras. So how did we do? WATCH OUT Cheese Porn below! Caryl’s Grill Cheese My bread choice was Challah, Jewish […]
Philippine Relief
Over the weekend the Philippines experienced the largest tropical cyclone to ever hit land fall in recorded history. The news and my Facebook feed has been filled with devastating images of mass destruction, pleas for help, and grief. I am lucky that most of my family back home live far enough away from it’s deadly […]
Dinner for Two – Le Local Montreal
I was very lucky to spend this weekend in Montreal with Chris for their Taste Montreal event. Similar to Toronto’s Winterlicious, it offers a line up of prix fixe menus from some of Montreal’s top restaurants over 2 weeks. We had late reservations at Restaurant Le Local in Old Montreal. Even at 10:30 PM all of […]
Take me to Paris
When our bestie Brittini came up to Toronto last weekend my friends Chelsea, Rachel and I knew we had to take her somewhere special. Chelsea suggested Le Sélect, a French Bistro on Wellington Ave W and a pleasant surprise from it’s mostly industrial neighbours. You feel like you’ve been transported to France, the interior is filled […]
RDN: El Catrin
Kate was our chosen host for October’s RDN and I was excited to see where she would take us next. Having been one of the original 4 people at the very FIRST Random Dinner Night back in 2006, Kate has impressed with her restaurant choices time and time again… so where the heck would she […]
Party with the Dinos
Ever wanted to spend a night at the museum? While it isn’t quite as fantastical as the movie, the Royal Ontario Museum’s Friday Night Live gives Torontonians a chance to party with the dinosaurs and any of the museum’s other inhabitants. Running from October 18th to December 6th, each evening has everything from food, great […]
DIY Thursdays: Red Pepper Soup and more!
As you’ve probably surmised by reading my blog, I do a lot of eating out! Even when it isn’t Random Dinner Night or time for Brunch I’m usually too tired or too lazy to make dinner. This is a bad habit! DIY Thursdays ensures that a) I make dinner from scratch one day a week, […]