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Chinese (finally) Done Well!!!
Restaurant Review I am not a fan of Chinese cuisine, but after the visit to Lee restaurant over a week ago, I’ve started to change my mind. Susur Lee’s restaurant offers food that is far from traditional. It’s an Asian inspired, contemporary gastronomical experience which began for me with Szechwan hot and sour soup and continued with a Thai-fused green curry chicken on sweet pea polenta. Had […]
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Tags: Lee, Restaurant, Susur Lee, Toronto
Restaurant Review Over the past month and a half, I’ve gone to several restaurants worth mentioning. There were three different cuisines, three different atmospheres, three different Fridays, but the same weather conditions… freezing conditions! Situated on the upcoming, vibrant Ossington Avenue in Toronto, Böhmer offers a New York-style communal dining in a post-industrial, minimalistic space. The service was friendly, swift and […]
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Tags: Boehmer, Czehoski, Guu Izakaya, Restaurant, Toronto
Last weekend I went to Ottawa for the first time ever. My friend A.M. moved there for work, and I decided to visit him and shake up his monotonic life. Before the trip, I was warned by many that I wouldn’t like the capital city, that I would be bored. However, Ottawa turned out to be […]
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Tags: Canada, Montreal, Ottawa
Origin
Restaurant Review Due to the current gastronomic trends, many contemporary restaurants offer their own twist on the tapa-style dining. However, only a few of them deliver delicious, flavourful food that goes well beyond the food presentation and the restaurant decor. Origin seems to have found the recipe of success that combines the modern, industrial look of the venue with the presentable […]
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Tags: Origin, Restaurant, Toronto
Peculiar Nuit Blanche
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Tags: cubeworks, Michelangelo, Nuit Blanche, Toronto
For several months, my Brazilian friends and I had been waiting for Ivete Sangalo to have a concert at Dundas Square in Toronto. That finally happened yesterday afternoon. She delivered a part of Bahia and Brazil to the audience, and many Canadians experienced something they hadn’t seen before. Just for a moment, I thought I was back in […]
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Tags: Brazil, Ivete Sangalo, Salvador de Bahia, Toronto
One Word: CAMPEON
700 million people watched it, 46 million countrymen cheered for them, and after a patient yet nerve-wrecking, memorable game, my favourite football team won the FIFA World Cup showing the world that Spain is the best in Europe and in the world. This is the reason why this blog entry could have be done without any words […]
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Tags: Brazil, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, Spain, Toronto, World Cup
This past long weekend was my first experience of Canadian true wilderness and the infamous cottage country. A group of my friends organized a little get-away, and surprisingly everything went very well. I’ve always been a city boy, and have prefered heat radiating concrete over refreshing grass. Thus, I was a bit sceptical about the trip […]
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Tags: Byng Inlet, Georgian Bay
w/o hesitation 