Dinette Triple Crown is one of the best restaurants in Montreal and one of my personal favourites. I wrote about it when they first opened in 2012. Back then, Dinette was basically just a counter with a few stools where you could sit and eat. Most people took their food out and in the summer, …

View this post on Instagram A post shared by JIAO (@jiaodimsumbar) on Jan 14, 2019 at 6:52am PST A version of this article was first written for Tourisme Montréal New Montreal restaurants keep popping up on a weekly basis and my list of establishments to try keeps getting longer. These are the newest ones I’ve added. …

I recently had a 48-hour layover in San Francisco on my way back from French Polynesia. It was a great way to buffer the brutal temperature difference between Bora Bora and Montreal although I never need an excuse to visit San Francisco. I love the city’s architecture, its quirkiness and its delicious food scene. I had …

French Polynesia is a collection of 118 islands and atolls, 67 of which are inhabited, and the largest of which is Tahiti. The only international airport and everyone’s first contact with the islands is in Tahiti’s capital of Papeete. From there, you can choose to stay in the capital or take one of the many …

Making a yule log is a long winded–albeit rewarding–process. I used to make about a dozen bûches de Noël every year with my mom. We would start by making the logs and freezing them a couple of weeks before the holidays then we would assemble them as needed. It seemed as if we were baking …