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DON’T GET ME WRONG. I like my Kaluga Queen caviar from China just as much as the next guy. And, if next week a waiter at my Toronto local restaurant goes hog-wild over my Dover sole with a slicer and…
DON’T GET ME WRONG. I like my Kaluga Queen caviar from China just as much as the next guy. And, if next week a waiter at my Toronto local restaurant goes hog-wild over my Dover sole with a slicer and…
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…
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…
From a spectacular perch on the western shore of Okanagan Lake, about 15 minutes from the city of Kelowna, the views here are idyllic. And they recall some of the world’s most famous wine regions — in, say, France, Spain,…
Alongside centuries of tradition, winemaking in Portugal is going through a veritable revolution as a new generation of vignerons take over their families' historied estates or start their own independent vinicultural projects. Across the regions, investments in both vineyards and…
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…
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…
Fairmont Royal York, the city's most happening hotel, is ready to aid and abet you in your celebratory desires. Whether it's an excuse for a cocktail, Mother's Day Afternoon Tea To-Go, a decadent Sunday brunch or the arrival of their sparkly new…
“LISTEN TO THE FLAVOURS” WAS THE THEME OF THE 2022 GIFFARD WEST CUP COCKTAIL COMPETITION. Crowley won the national finals and represented Canada proudly in Angers, France, with a cocktail inspired by her grandmother’s strawberry-rhubarb pie, paired with the Don…
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…
In its beginnings–in Cuba, in the 1910s–the cocktail combined only local Bacardi rum, grenadine, and French vermouth. A mixture so humdrum that many a drink historian has posited, convincingly, that the only possible explanation for its long-ago popularity with visiting yanquis was…
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…