yummy... all sound good!

jules bistro reminds me of la sirene in nyc, which we have enjoyed more than once.

more suggestions also welcome as we're not going until saturday.

i'm with ya, poppi... the old rodney's was fabulous.

any cuisine, any price range.... just needs to be someplace with good food and where we can get in and out in under 90 minutes.

if you're in the 'hood then check out pizza pide instead of mr pide. i found mr pide to be too cheesy so the other flavours were masked. pizza pide is pretty much delectable all the time.

it replaced amaro pizza which had been there for a yr or two... i will miss amaro's amazing potato pizza but hopefully the new guys will find their niche and they wont just be a gut fill pizza place for the high school lunch crowd.

we picked one up about a week ago. angelo wasn't back to work yet but his son was doing an admirable job.

apparently angelo's none too happy about the now magazine article so you'll likely have to show up in person to place your order, but it's a good excuse to hang out at the only for a beer while you're waiting!

thanks. they had tangerine juice which worked in a pinch!

Need three cups for an ice cream recipe... any suggestions where i can buy the juice?

just got an update from a neighbour... he`s been sick with the flu but is getting better. hopefully he will recover quickly.

friday night it was around 6pm and last night it was about 930-10pm.

thanks all. we ended up a maroli and it was great. had the king fish and were also served some hoppers to go along with it - and between the hopper and garlic naan we soaked up all the yummy sauce.
we'll be back for another movie on thursday night so will check out guu if we get there early enough.

we've been by the last two nights and the lights are off. anyone have any info?

we are open to any cuisine at any price range, as long as we can sit down by 5pm and get out by 615 latest. any recos?

karma and fair trade aside, buy locally roasted beans for the best flavour and freshness. beans should be used within max 10 days of roasting.

Went to Weezies last night based on this posting and had a lovely bistro meal. Pickerel was cooked to perfection and SO had a yummy toutiere. Service was good but the kitchen was slow, but the meal was worth the wait. Plus the room is great!

Giving away my advancing years here but we celebrated my 40th by an amazing meal at Susur just weeks after he opened on King St in 2000. Was an amazing meal, but I loved Lotus even more.

just picked up ours at coxwell and o'connor - lots there!

Hi all
Any advice on when we should be drinking 2000 Abadal 3.9, and what we should be drinking it with?
thanks!

that's one heck of a project if you've got a 5 year schedule. wow. but sure, feel free to post here in 5 years. if you don't, we'll take them to the environment day!

hey biggreen - i always thought it meant the stars were aligned when the phone was off the hook at danforth pizza. walk to danforth pizza (exercise!), order, walk to the only for a beer (more exercise!), then go back and pick up your pizza.

and i definitely second your reco for chino loco's fish burritos. fabulous!

fooddogs... I am sure it was fooddogs.

I planted garlic last fall for the first time and am seeing scapes. How do you 'pick' scapes, and other than pesto what else does one do with them?

That's too bad. We had a really tasty Indian inspired lunch there a couple of months ago. Sad go see them bo.

I guess the only logical conclusion is that we were there on a really off night.

I can tell you, after eating white asparagus daily in Alsace a few years ago, that what I was served at Splendido on Saturday night was either not peeled, or if it was peeled, it wasn't peeled enough as it was still stringy. As to the morels... each of us had 2 morels on our plates - both of mine had grit and the b/f had grit in one of his.

As mentioned below, I chalk this up to the curse of the b/f birthday debacles!

Ok guys next time we go we are bringing one of you along!. Might be a bit boring for you but you all appear to have the inside track at Splendido... Getty Lee has that same inside track as he arrived about 45 mins after we did, and he certainly seemed to be getting top dollar service.
I made up for the bday debacle by making a gorgeous 2.5" grass fed rib eye last nigt (his actual bday) using the method below.

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/844767

And next time you do one of those Riesling nights at Splendido...

Oh this is depressing but it confirms that I can blame my b/f - lol.

In our 19 years of bliss, we have only had two TRULY outstanding meals to celebrate his birthday. One was the aforementioned meal 3 years ago at Splendido, and the other was about 10 years ago in Amsterdam at Utrechtsedwarstafel. The remaining 17 birthday meals, regardless of $ spent or location (Thailand, Italy, France, NYC.. the list goes on) have been bombs.

I guess I wasn't clear... I knew that David Lee had moved on and was just referencing him as he was still exec Chef last time we were there prior to our visit this past weekend (it was in the final month before they closed down... a while ago obviously!). On that evening we spent at least 50% more than we did last weekend, but I didn't regret a penny. Only wish I could say the same about our recent visit!

Went to Splendido Saturday evening. Have been a few times over the years but this was our first time since David Lee stepped down. The last meal we had with David Lee still at the helm was outstanding in every way… we spent a small fortune but the evening was magic with perfect food, wine and service.

So we knew when we went there on Saturday that we wouldn’t likely be able to top (or even match) that experience, but we still wanted to try it in its latest incarnation. It was a letdown.

We choose the tasting menu with wine and it started off bumpy. An amuse of foie gras foam with a strawberry ribbon that tasted of nothing at all, followed by an interesting and tasty smoked oyster served with a yummy gin drink. Following the amuses was a lovely English Pea Soup with a lobster claw, but the flavour of the soup masked the lobster so it ended up just being a texture.

Then we waited. And waited. And waited.

Eventually the next course came out – white asparagus with morels… one of my favourite springtime dishes. However the asparagus wasn’t peeled and was stringy, and the morels weren’t properly cleaned and were gritty. Bleah. I complained, politely. I don’t recall the wine match but it wasn’t a traditional asparagus wine like Pinot Gris or Sauvignon Blanc, and it wasn’t a great match.

We then moved on to the ‘main’ course, which was a plate with 3-4 different stylings of pork. All okay but bland and boring. The Zind Humbrecht Pinot Gris that was supposed be served with this was not poured as the bottles were corked. The substitution was an Oregon Pinot Gris, which was adequate but nowhere close to the Zind. (I think there may have been another course between the asparagus course and the pork course… I have forgotten it or maybe just pushed it out of my mind).

By this time, it was such a sad state of affairs that we just both wanted to leave, so we told our server to skip the next course called “Peanut Butter and Jelly” and went straight to a Chocolate Mint dessert. This was lovely, not too minty and not too sweet. It was served with Carpano Antico (an ancient style vermouth) which tastes about the same as Buckleys, but at least the sommelier swapped it out for port when I asked our server if we were drinking cough syrup.

A note about the portion sizes… everything was small. I didn’t mind that the first few courses were small, it is a tasting menu after all, but was expecting that the ‘main’, such as it was, would be a slightly larger portion. I didn’t expect to leave hungry… we are not really big eaters I could have happily eaten a slice or two of pizza on the way home. The wine servings were also small - looked to be about 2oz per glass, and although there were 6 glasses served throughout the meal, it never felt like there was enough wine to linger over , and instead there was only enough to have a couple of sips with each course, and in between courses you were left with no wine, obviously no food, and in some cases, a long wait.

I don’t think I’d be quite so pissed off if it wasn’t expensive, but the tasting menu with wine is $200pp, so once you add in tax and tip it is a very expensive night out (at least in my books). I am happy to pay a lot for a meal, but in return for my hard earned cash, I expect more than this.

We cooked a 2 1/2" bone-in rib-eye last night and used this method. It was without a doubt one of the very best steaks we've ever eaten.

I should mention that the meat itself was grass-fed and dry-aged, so we were starting with a spectacular raw ingredient, but following this method took the fabulous steak and turned it into one of those meals where we just kept mmmming throughout every bite.

thanks for posting!

You can take them to the Community Environment Days and they pass them on to local schools for their crafts. We dropped off about 5 years worth of corks and they took them all.