Not So Hot Ice House Fails to Impress
This Too Shall Pass: The death of French cuisine and the rise of Italian food
Internation No Diet Day
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On France, Feminism and Grandma’s Turkey
It has been said that one of the great trade-offs of the feminist movement in France has been the fall of French gastronomy. Women, traditionally the custodians of… Read More »
Park, Source of Happiness
Hearing and reading comments about my Au Pied de Cochon disaster, I think it’s time to showcase some of the beauty in the world. I thought about many… Read More »
The End of the Affair
While I generally feel the world is a beautiful and fascinating place with endless potential for fun and learning and growth, there are moments when the whole place… Read More »
Sit, Eat, Be Grateful
There are some restaurants in the world that understand that customers are the lifeblood of their business. It’s an idea that seems self-evident at first glance, but hubris… Read More »
Raising the Bar
In today’s laissez-faire attitude about service in restaurants (“you guys want more wine?”), it is a real breath of fresh air to eat and drink in a place… Read More »
Le Comptoir: An Orchestra Without a Conductor
Coming hot on the heels of the recently-closed La Montée de Lait, chef Ségué Lepage embarked on a new venture just down the street from La Montée. Le… Read More »
Not So Hot Ice House Fails to Impress
I recently took a chef-friend for dinner to Ice House just off St-Laurent, a new Tex-Mex road-house kind of place in the Plateau. It was jam-packed, the tiny… Read More »
This Too Shall Pass: The death of French cuisine and the rise of Italian food
“A customer is the most important visitor on our premises; he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our… Read More »
Internation No Diet Day
This past May we celebrated the 19th International No Diet Day (“Wednesday” to me), and I thought I’d write a few words about dieting in our increasingly fat… Read More »
