How I was wowed by six dishes I’d never have thought to order.

How I was wowed by six dishes I’d never have thought to order.

An ex once said to me, “You know you’d eat horse droppings if they served it in a restaurant starting with the word ‘Chez’.” I was eating sweetbreads at the time and I have eaten and will continue to eat most every part of the world’s most tasty creatures. So, yes, by...
San Miguel is screamin’ again about this ice cream.

San Miguel is screamin’ again about this ice cream.

Back in 2011, I wrote a piece titled “What San Miguel de Allende is screaming about”. It was about ice cream, more specifically about what San Miguelenses thought was the town’s best ice cream. I first did an online survey to select the favorite brand. The results...
Not quite dim sum but quite the treat.

Not quite dim sum but quite the treat.

It’s a once a week, absolutely-every-week-that-we’re-there, tradition in Toronto. I’m talking about dim sum at lunch. Those wonderful little Chinese treats, steamed or fried, three or four to the serving, that date back to the 10th Century tea houses on the Silk Road...
Might this be the next McDonald’s?

Might this be the next McDonald’s?

“Suckin’ on a chili dog outside the Tastee-Freez.” It wasn’t John Mellencamp playing when I walked into Chilli Billy. It was Jackson Browne and “Running On Empty”. Which was exactly how my stomach was feeling after foolishly (OK, stupidly) neglecting to eat...
Good to the very last scrape.

Good to the very last scrape.

I’ve seen crèpes suzette, bananas foster and cherries jubilee. I’ve seen desserts that bubbled, that sparkled, that smoked. But I’d never seen anything quite like this. We’d already had five courses. But we’d split them. And there were three of us. So there was...