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Gvina Levana or Quark cheese?
I don't know if it is for baking but the 'bulk cheese' by Liberty is also used for blintze stuffing and pierogi stuffing....it is a very thick cheese and can be bought anywhere
Food Truck Petition
What ever happened to the Online Petition for Montreal Food Trucks? Was it presented? I know I signed it but cannot find it...
Rubino Brothers
What happened to the Rubino Brothers of Rain. Do they have a restaurant in Toronto?
If I say RUE Jean-Talon OUEST (west) between DECARIE and St-Laurent in Montreal
there are a bevvy of good small family owned restos especially when you hit close to the JTMarket. Greek food is at its best but I can't recall the resto name except to say it sits at a corner of Jean Talon on North side...but there are all kinds of good restaurants on this stretch of the city...Plus you can never go wrong to hit up any of the restos right at the market on Jean Talon...btw if you need a loose pair of pants after all your fab dinners then head to Loblaws and the biggest Joe Clothing Store at the corner of Hutchison, (I know where just not the names)
If I say RUE VICTORIA (between Jean-talon and Ste-Catherine) in Montreal
I have been born and bred here so I am going to say with uncertainty that Rue Victoria between Jean talon and St Catherine St have absolutely no restaurants worth mentioning except for the Victoria fish store for the city's best lox and perhaps a Kosher pizza place or two....
Wedding reception at a restaurant: on Grand Prix Weekend... help please?
My first instinct was 'oh no- not Grand Prix weekend" and so was my 2nd. If indeed you are stuck on that weekend to have your reception I can only suggest that you choose a restaurant out of the downtown, Plateau, Little Italy areas. Although the 100.00 p/p is a great and generous price to consider as a reception cost Restaurants worth mentioning here are looking for a much larger price per person that weekend.
I would have to say stay in the burbs at some quiet place where your business would be most welcome that weekend as the entire city will be in all the good places that Montreal is known for. Congratulations on the nuptials
Tchiang Kiang at Yangtze
Has anyone tried this resto yet via home delivery or eat-in?
zero chocolate bar?
saw them an hour ago while waiting at Burger de Ville on Westminister...saw them on a shelf in the depanneur across the street
An Alternate Layover in Montreal
I have to say considering the No Reservation episode of Montreal, that the producers got together to truly epitomize Montreal food. I remember seeing him sitting at and eating with an Inuit family and their traditional foods which should have been a show unto itself and not labelled Montreal. I was incensed
Price of a Bagel, Cream Cheese and Smoked Salmon in Montreal
Try Cafe Orange their prices are reasonable but I don't know the price of the bagel sandwich. I do know however and oddly enough the St Viateur Bagel on Monkland has a horrible sandwich of this. Of course if someone, like myself, is whollly addicted to the smoked lox at Victoria's Fish Market - would never contemplate this in a restaurant...:))
Sticky Rice in Montreal?
I have eaten it at the Thai resto beside St Vateur Bagel resto on Monkland
Prepared Christmas Dinner delivery to your door in Montreal?
I would try Adam Catering even though they are a Kosher caterer they would probably do the meat side of your food. A turkey is a turkey even if it's Kosher and then you can surprise your guests with some different side dishes...just a thought.
Anyone know where I can get Banana Leaves to make tamales?
Sabor Latino grocery store has them
Deville Diner Bar
Anyone been? Hasn't been a lot of press and heard via friends it exists...
Imadake
Were they busy? It's too bad about your experience. Every time I have been it has been very quiet and we eat early - the owner has always been around - you should call him and tell him as I am pretty sure he would like to know ... or email him.
Early dinner @ Joe Beef w/toddler
I second that thought...BUT you must make sure they are the kind of kids who will behave because the resto is small. I used to take my kids to 'good restaurants' only when they became of age and not below grade 2. That is when I felt the most comfortable knowing how the evening would go. Even an early dinner.
What's the best place for breakfast in Montreal
Cafe Orange on Decarie is my go-to place for breakfast or brunch on the weekend.
Lesley Chesterman [Montreal]
IMHO to BLM: Lesley Chesterman, as far as I know, has never 'made fun' or criticized anyone on Twitter and I follow her...not that Twitter leaves enough room to do that. As for Shut Up and Eat which I read all the time I have never found enough mistakes to warrant a mention besides I would like to know in the age of email and blogging who 'doesn't ' make a spelling mistake or whose sentence structure is impaired. In fact that book Modernist Cuisine had to put up a website just to correct its mistakes and that was an edited book.
Personally I find I do best when I go to a restaurant eat and then decide...I don't do restaurant critiquing but those that do and are not paid for it do us Montrealers a service because although a lot of Americans earn money thru advertising etc...bloggers here earn bupkus and do it for the love of food.
We should also be happy that we even have an English restaurant critic because that means we still have one English newspaper.
As for culinary knowledge I have felt and still feel that being a restaurant critic whether u have a cooking background or a great palate is and will always be subjective. Unfortunately though there are those in the States esp NY and LA that wield the power they have been given by their audiences and even as we judge we still have and carry with us, by virtue that we are all human, built-in predjudices that are not supposed to, but sometimes do, come out on paper. I applaud the restauranteur who doesn't care what kind of review he gets but cares solely about his food.
Now I can be taken to task for my spelling and sentence errors...bad girl..ok I have been duly reprimanded.
Lesley Chesterman [Montreal]
I happen to know a food blogger who spends his hard earned money to review restaurants on a fairly regular basis and deserves to be in this list as Shut Up And Eat does reviews on resto and he is dedicated to his blog.
http://www.shutupandeat.ca/
Lesley Chesterman [Montreal]
well since i don't own the restaurant in question that I wrote about and since the owner told me that she refused to rate it because of their friendship and since it was reviewed by Musgrave, then hence my comment ..
It is not usually the case where I feel, at first take, that I am being lied to. Perhaps as someone without a grind to axe, I believe what people tell me especially when they are people who I have always known to be beyond reproach.
Lesley Chesterman [Montreal]
I know that she does not compromise her position and if it is a friend she tries to find someone else to write a review on it...first hand knowledge on this, or so I have been told.
Lesley Chesterman [Montreal]
what I find about Lesley is the rating system she uses...she will say a lot of negatives yet her star rating could be 2...she rarely gives 0 stars and most time it is 2+ even tho I am reading it and the negative comments outweigh the good. it's like she is afraid...
New Northern joint in Chinatown 2 (long review)
porky uh sorry I mean porker and mrs. porker.....loved the review...if you get there before the rest of us please write the name and address...also right up my alley. Looking on Google Map there looks to be two places that could inhabit this new resto...thx
Laurier Gordon Ramsay
Chalet BBQ is without a doubt one of Montreal's best rotisserie BBQ chicken places but they stick to what makes them such a good BBQ place and that is chicken. On that note I think Montreal has to look at Laurier Gordon Ramsay as a new restaurant and not continue to equate it with Laurier BBQ. Laurier BBQ does not exist any more.
So if it's Rotisserie BBQ chicken that all agree on then Montreal has its long standing favorites. If it is a fuller menu and one wishes to venture and try Laurier Gordon Ramsay then don't think of it as Laurier BBQ. If what I say doesn't make sense then perhaps the 35.00 Whole BBQ Chicken might. (it comes with the same sides that Family Pack does at Chalet BBQ)
Recommendations for a beautiful birthday cake
http://www.lesdeliceslafrenaie.com/
Fabulous cakes here too...
Martin Picard: A Real Gem
The most successful people I have encountered in my life are those that don't know they are successful...
Soda Stream or Something Else? [moved from Quebec board]
i absolutely love it. I have 4 bottles and three cyclinders by choice and I have had to exchange twice at Sears Angrignon and they seem to know what they are doing with the exchange although u have to get the manager of the department.
they are limited in their diet syrups so I order from https://www.soda-maker.com
What I love is that last minute I can make a bottle of soda and never forget that I didn't buy for company or just for that desire to quench a thirst. I have not used the flavored water but I have made use of just regular carbonated water as well.
It is addictive and I had posted on it http://eyezinacookbook.com/?p=3607
Soda Stream or Something Else? [moved from Quebec board]
I did actually wind up buying it online special thru the Canadian Sodastream but I buy my bottles of soda from another canadian site that is a bit cheaper. Sears depending on the store has the bottles and carbonators especially at Angrignon.
I only buy Diet Sodas and the United States has more of a selection in that respect. Love the Diet Orange and hate the Diet Cola. I also have in the diet area: cream soda and dr pepper as well as grapefruit and gingerale and rootbeer
I use it all the time
Egg Rolls
@Haggisboy that review ricocheted me back to the days when my parents took us out Sunday nite (always a Sunday night) for Chinese food and the water came in colored water jugs...gosh those were good memories cause it wasn't chinese food unless the colored jugs appeared....
