Yearly Archives: 2012

7
Oct
posted in : MONTREAL, events

Can you believe that Montreal, this mecca of gastronomy and the city that has the highest number of restaurants per capita in North America, has never had a restaurant week until now? Unbelievable, right? That is about to change though with TASTE MTL, Montreal’s first ever restaurant week, which will take place from November 1 …

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2
Oct
posted in : TRAVELS, Quebec
cote nord tremblant suites © Will Travel for Food

I just came back from a wonderful weekend at Côté Nord Tremblant. I had been invited to try out their new condo-suites back in July but I was away on my train adventure then and had to postpone. I only had a chance to go now and I’m so glad I waited until the fall. …

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19
Sep
posted in : events, MONTREAL
de la rue aux etoiles

From the streets to the stars: an evening of haute street cuisine is an annual event benefiting Dans la rue, a wonderful Montreal organization headed by Father Emmett Johns (Father Pops) that takes care of homeless teenagers and aims to get them off the streets. Every year, some of Montreal’s most-renowed chefs compete to create …

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13
Sep
posted in : coffee, MONTREAL

This is a dynamic list that is constantly being updated. Latest update: February 2019 That’s the sign hanging outside Cafe Medina in Vancouver and those are words I live by. I’m a bit of a coffee snob, not the kind who will ask a barista what temperature he brews his coffee at or how often …

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9
Sep
posted in : MONTREAL
sugar shack au pied de cochon © Will Travel for Food

I have been to the Au pied de cochon sugar shack two years in a row for their spring maple madness menu and have loved both of my experiences. The multiple course menu that chef Martin Picard puts together is certainly an ode to maple, that quintessential Quebec ingredient, but it also focuses on several …

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