Wendy and I went to Mirabelle Wine Bar (2112 Yonge Street, a couple of blocks south of Eglinton) for Valentine’s Day dinner, and it was excellent. For that night, they cancelled their regular menu and presented a special menu with three appetizers, three main courses and three desserts. We both opted for the prawn cocktail, [...]
Category Archives: Review
Cluck, Grunt and Low
August 21, 2007 – 10:41 am
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A couple of weeks back, the Ginger Ninja and I went to Cluck, Grunt and Low to see if Toronto finally got a barbecue place worth mentioning. I felt that the food could use a little work: the sauce — which comes courtesy of the highly-regarded [...]
“Not My Dog” and Other Parkdale Hangouts
August 15, 2007 – 11:23 am
Since I mentioned the bar called “Not My Dog” in the previous article, I thought I’d post a couple of reviews. Here’s an excerpt of one from the Martini Boys site, which specializes in bar and restaurant reviews:
Enter Not My Dog and you get the sense of something cool going down. [...]
Scenes From a Vacation: The Dodge Avenger
July 2, 2007 – 2:28 pm
The Ginger Ninja and I were going to have to travel some distances that weren’t very well served by public transit if they were served at all, so we decided to rent a car. We needed a car that we could pick up at Logan Airport and drop off at Bradley (Hartford’s airport), and Thrifty [...]
Scenes From a Vacation: Blogger Lunch at Changsho
July 2, 2007 – 10:25 am
On our vacation, we had the good fortune of catching up with several bloggers from the Cambridge area thanks to the work of Betsy Devine, who organized a lunch at the Chinese restaurant Changsho. Here’s Betsy with a squishy cow I gave her, taking care of the bill:
All Betsy needs is a squishy cow and [...]
Tainted Vista Review #2 on "Global Nerdy"
January 19, 2007 – 3:35 pm
The comic panel on the right (taken from this Achewood comic) summarizes what I want to say to the folks behind Windows Vista. Yes, I think that it’s got some improvements on Windows XP, but the annoyances I’ve had have eclipsed the steps forward. In the second installment of The Tainted Vista Review — my [...]
