Gourmet take-out dinners seem to be increasingly popular, with good reason: there’s something enticing about the idea of enjoying a chef-prepared menu that involves minimal preparation efforts, in the comfort of your own home. For very special occasions, some hire chefs that come directly into their kitchens to prepare and serve a meal, but it’s… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Restaurants
Restaurant Review: Patente et Machin, Quebec City
Quebec City’s Patente et Machin (roughly translated as ‘Trinket and Doodad’) is the city’s most popular new restaurant. Opened just two months ago in a former diner of the St-Sauveur neighborhood, an area of the city that is off the average visitor’s radar, it’s the most talked about Quebec City restaurant in blogs and social… Continue Reading
There’s More to Copenhagen than Noma: A Gastronomic Lunch at Geranium
More people asked me “Will you go to Noma?” when I announced I was heading to Copenhagen than I can even count. After I came back, only the tense of that question changed, as everyone I told about my trip was curious to know if I “got in”. I’ll say it here one last time:… Continue Reading
A Bowl of Ramen, Just Like in Tokyo: Ippudo NY
The problem with going to Japan is that it completely shifts your expectations of Japanese food. When you come back, what you thought tasted great before you left now feels bland. Dishes that you thought refined look sloppy. You realize that very few restaurants in North America live up to the high Japanese standards, even… Continue Reading
A Chocolate and Pastry Tour in New York City
If you’re following me on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook, you know that I was in New York last week attending the International Association of Culinary Professionals’ Annual Conference. It was an amazing culinary, educational, and inspirational experience, which I still need to decant to assimilate. I will read the many pages of notes I jotted… Continue Reading