Destination: Parcelles
In the prime of summer, Chef Labelle makes the hour-and-15-minute run to the city for deliveries frequently. On Wednesdays, his busiest day, it’s a 15-stop run. To start, after crossing the Champlain Bridge, his truck full, he heads for the…
Destination: Restaurant Pearl Morissette
Naturally, Hadida has lots of regular haunts along the route from wine country to the city. On Dundas Street in Mississauga, there’s Monasaba, a Yemeni restaurant known for its mandi–roast lamb or chicken with aromatic basmati. Nearby, a Venezuelan café…
Destination: Wild Blue
While the challenges of managing kitchens in two different cities simultaneously are daunting, Chef Chen finds ways to make the most of things. The advantage that I have from the rest of the competition [in Whistler] is coming up from…
Where will your night take you? AnnaLena
Say, the small figurine peering outward from behind the glass-fronted hostess stand that looks like some sort of hybrid of Bibendum and Krusty the Clown. Or, if you missed that one, Michael Jordan in his Bulls uniform, perched on a…
Where will your night take you?
Late on a weeknight at Alobar, in Yorkville, the bar is still full, and in the surrounding lounge and dining room, the crowd is just beginning to thin. So the hustle in the partly open kitchen at the rear is…
Austrian Wine
WHEN THE SUN’S RAYS LIGHT UP VIENNA and the temperature reaches that comfortable alfresco-dining range, young and old flock from the city centre to the suburbs. In the districts surrounding Austria’s capital, rural meets urban in a setting dotted with…
Addicted to Verona
SHAKESPEARE’S OBSESSION WITH ITALY IS WELL DOCUMENTED. A third of his plays were set in il bel paese and two were set in the obsession-worthy city of Verona. I too am obsessed with Verona...nay, addicted. Over the past 25 years, I’ve…
The Wines of Burgenland
WITH A GLASS OF A LIGHT, BERRYFORWARD and thoroughly delicious red wine in my hand, I gaze out over the town of Deutsch Schützen in the Eisenberg sub-region of Burgenland while the winemaker describes where we are...and why. Burgenland is…
Life beyond Riesling
IT’S NO SECRET THAT PEOPLE IN THE WINE TRADE HAVE A DISPROPORTIONATE LOVE FOR RIESLING AND GERMAN RIESLING IN PARTICULAR. It’s the grape that sommeliers venerate, bathe in, bring to parties. At a master sommelier conference some years ago, the…
