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Native Pawpaws
You also must be thinking of some other tree. Pawpaw fruit is green, ripening to brown. There is no red involved at all.
Native Pawpaws
The flowers are pollinated by flies, so they do make a rotting meat odour - BUT it is only detectable if you stick your nose right in the flower. You must be thinking of some other tree.
Delicious Wood-oven Pizza @ Yonge & St Clair?
Are you aware of Il Fornello? It is a small chain and perhaps a bit dated in concept, but I for one think the pizza is quite good. Not a destination in itself, but if you want wood oven pizza here, this is it.
Where to find Gummy Candies in Toronto
I have seen Haribo in the Sobey's on St. Clair Ave just east of Yonge.
Rijstafel / rijsttafel / rijstaffel dinner at Quince
Is everyone served at the same time in seatings, or is it a regular variety of reservations times?
Looking for a tasty mom and pop restaurant in Toronto or York Region
Goody's Diner
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/797955
Sudbury in 24 hrs
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/399779
La Boulangerie du Village for breakfast if coffee and pastry is enough
Durham NC Hound visiting Orlando
I like to try to report back, but sometimes I pull info from many different, often old, threads, and don't want to either restart them or put a bunch of stuff into a very specific thread, like this one, that is off the topic.
But I'll do that anyways, and hope it helps someone.
Thanks very much to all the posters here, we had a great week of dining out and never once suffered overpriced hotel food.
We selected a broad mix of places in part because we were going out with different friends with different tastes each night. Overall, a quality-for-value theme as much as anything, as we don't favor super-expensive places any better than crappy chain restaurants (did someone actually recc Applebee's above ?!?, no, that was in another Orlando thread). Obviously we had a car in order to pull this off. We enjoyed every one of the following:
4R BBQ - we went on a weeknight to the Winter Park location and only waited about 10 minutes. Amazingly tasty. Perhaps the best ribs we've ever tried. Definitely the best baked beans I've ever had. No alcohol, though, and seating is limited so there is some pressure to finish up quickly and leave.
Shipyard Brewery - a good place to enjoy a variety of quality beer. Food less memorable but certainly tasty.
Padrino's (Cuban, Hunter's Creek, actually very close to where we stayed in far SW Orlando): delicious, really friendly staff, huge inexpensive carafes of sangria, Cigar City Jai Alai on tap for lovers of good beer. A fairly upscale looking room but very reasonable prices. So good we went twice.
Cafe Tu Tu Tango - tapas style in terms of ordering but not traditional foods, more like Meditterranean fusion. Everything was delicious. Things do not come out in any particular order, which can be a little weird. Again, we went here on a weeknight, later, and did not have to wait but I can see that as a problem here. Oddly, dessert portions were way bigger than regular items, so we over-ordered dessert. Only real negative for us was music volume was too loud for relaxed conversation.
El Tenampa, Kissimmee - I love me some authentic Mex and was not disppointed here. Menu is huge and slightly overwhelming as a result. Horchata was delicious. They did goof on one order (served beef burrito instead of shrimp) but communication with our waiter was actually very good. Also a Mexican grocery adjacent with great selection of items that can be hard to find in places that don't have a lot of Latinos, e.g. dried cascabel chiles.
Disney/Kissimmee dining help
Just got back from an Orlando visit.
We were really impressed by Padrino's in Hunter's Creek. Great Cuban food and a very friendly atmosphere. Kids might do well off the appetizer menu.
Also went to El Tenampa in Kissimmee (4563 Rt 192, just east of "Marker 14") - Mexican that is more towards the authentic Mexican side than Americanized. Really good and huge portions. House made "aguas frescas" are really good especially the horchata, which is riced-based but tastes kind of like sweet milk with cinnamon in it. Also there is a Mexican grocery store adjacent, I assume run by the same people, that has a nice assortment of made-in-store Mexican sweet bakery items - which might be fun to pick up for breakfast for something different.
Egg nog
If it is for adults, the boozier the better! My MIL makes a great one that uses both rum and bourbon (maybe something like this: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/drink/views/Bourbon-and-Dark-Rum-Eggnog-200886 ). This bears minimal resemblance to store bought (which I like to call chicken milk, on account of the french "lait de poule" that is on the packages here in the nominally bilingual northern socialist utopia).
holiday recipe involving candied ginger
Candied ginger goes very nicely in a dark chocolate bark with nuts. Indulgent and festive and kind of hard to screw up making it.
I cannot locate the specific recipe I used right now, but I see that many similar are online.
President's Choice Black Label
Redway has put the price back to 2.99. I'm the one who said it was 4.99 last weekend.
President's Choice Black Label
Well, for whatever reason, the Black Label Smoky Chiopotle Salsa is back to 2.99 (at Redway Rd.). So I bought it. That wasn't so hard, now was it Loblaws?
I stand by my original "accusation." I stated only what I observed.
I also stand by my right, having shopped many, many times at Wegman's, to consider Loblaws fundamentally lame.
President's Choice Black Label
There is a Black Label product on the shelf now, called Smoky Chipotle Salsa. It is in the same place on the shelf, in the same bottle, and looks like identical product to former President's Choice Chipotle Salsa. That is to say, only the label is dfifferent. Oh, and it is 4.99, no longer 2.99. That is so lame, Loblaws. I will be in the new Longo's on Laird the hour it opens. Expect Loblaw's Redway Road to be empty enough to bowl in then!
Home brewing beer in Toronto - tips, organizations, etc
much relevant local info here http://www.bartowel.com/board/index.php
Great Lakes Pumpkin Ale on tap?
try Stout on Carlton St. E.
It was there last week and probably still is, but call first if you want to be sure.
Munich Oktoberfest suggestions please
I have no idea how to do Oktoberfest, but I do know that one of the best breweries in Munich is Schneider, so seeking out their products is advised. They are particularly known for wheat beers (weisse). The best Oktoberfest beer I've had is made by Ayinger, so keep an eye out for that too. (See wikipedia article on Ayinger though - interesting that as a non-Munich brewery they may be kept out of Oktoberfest within Munich.) Most beer aficionados avoid Hofbrau - it is unremarkable stuff, nothing like the Ayinger (which has a great slightly sweet biscuity taste).
Where to find German Radler in Ottawa/Toronto?
http://www.chow.com/recipes/10715-panache
I think the French version as discussed here is basically the same thing.
Rustic, country, cowboy restaurant in Toronto area?
No, they have a dinner menu. Not as exhaustive as a full-on restaurant, but fairly extensive. See web site http://www.thedakotatavern.com. And there actually are some veg choices!
Where to find German Radler in Ottawa/Toronto?
I don't think it is available as a bottled product in Ontario. The closest thing I've seen is the Schofferhofer grapefruit/beer mix which is at the LCBO from time to time. Why not make your own - i.e. buy some German beer and some lemonade and mix? This is called panache in some places like Switzerland and also parts of southern Germany.
Rustic, country, cowboy restaurant in Toronto area?
Surely this is a joke? A vegetarian-friendly cowboy restaurant?
But seriously, what about Dakota Tavern?
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Dakota Tavern
249 Ossington Ave, Toronto, ON M6J, CA
Root Beer ingredients
burdock root you should be able to just go dig some - it is a common weed, with the big burs that get on dogs
Microbrew Soda Made/Available in Toronto?
Mill Street Brewery makes a very good root beer. Available only in the brewpub in the distillery district AFAIK.
Simply Mexican - has anyone been yet?
Had a takeout chicken chipotle burrito today. I liked it. Very wet with moderately spicy/smoky sauce, nice big hunks of chicken. Menu listed choice of 4 sauces but I was not asked what I wanted, so not sure what I got. I'll go back for more things, it is the only Mex choice at this corner. Interior looks nice, simple. $1.90 for a can of pop??? Your profit from me on that is zero, because I won't be buying it.
When (and where) was the last time you had a bird's nest made out of taro?
Rangoon Burmese Restaurant in Philadelphia
Good restaurant with great sticky toffee pudding?
The Monk's Table. Very good STP (although I'm not sure if it is always on the menu). Certainly not pretentious. Service possibly a bit on the casual side, but certainly not bad. Maybe a bit under the stated price level in your post, on average. Apparently no web site or online menu.
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The Monk's Table
1276 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M4T 1W5, CA
Pubs on Parliament with good food?
There is a new place open on Carlton just west of Parliament, called Stout. I think it used to be Brass Taps, but all new people now. I have not eaten there yet, menu is a bit pricy for pub food but interesting enough, maybe it is worth it. Deep fried pickle!?! It does have a nice atmosphere and much better than average beer selection, focusing on Ontario craft beers.
I want to enjoy beer, but I don't. Can you help me?
Also ... Tria usually has Bell's Two-Hearted Ale on tap. This is as sure a win as anything. If you don't like that, I give up.
