The Bon Vivant Blog

Some young lady once asked, “Can one desire too much of a good thing?”. She had obviously never been to Kintaro – and also probably hadn’t left the restaurant uncomfortably full – like really, “I need to walk”, “I can barely breathe”, “my legs don’t work so well”-kind-of-full. [...]

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Sunday night (long weekend) dinner with M&M at their place in Toronto. I used to work with M in downtown toronto, and a hop, skip and jump away from the office was Spadina Gardens – a Chinese restaurant on Dundas Street West, in one of Toronto’s many old Chinatowns. Friends [...]

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So – we had to come back. We’d been here twice before (here and here), but I didn’t feel that the prior posts did this particular patisserie justice.
We went there on the torture test day – Saturday morning. Lots of foodie people around – most of them [...]

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Run by Chris Brown and his partner, this is the source of some awesomely good and fresh baked goods. They only distribute either at markets or a few times a year out of their house. Track these guys down at the Trout Lake Farmer’s market or in the [...]

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T: This was an epic dinner. D had low expectations, and I really didn’t know what to expect. Long one of LA’s ‘see and be seen’ restaurants, this was probably the one that started it all for Wolfgang Puck. And by ‘all’, I mean his status as [...]

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T: We happened to be in West Vancouver after picking up D from the ferry terminal and so decided to drop in and see if the pie was worth all the hype. The result?
This is easily the best pie that I have ever had. End of story.
Best crust, best filling. [...]

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