Table for two, with a view

Travel and Leisure magazine recently released its list of the world’s best restaurant views … and a Canadian restaurant made the cut!
Eagle’s Eye restaurant is located at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, which itself is located in Golden, British Columbia.
When I was 13 years old, my family drove from Ontario out to the west coast. [...]

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Did he just call me a donkey?

Not content with dozens of well-regarded restaurants, a series of popular television shows, a stack of best-selling cook books and a recent near-death experience, Gordon Ramsay is branching out … into video games.
Modelled after the “Hell’s Kitchen” TV series, the game focuses on three different restaurant challenges — preparation, cooking and service — [...]

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If you can’t stand the heat …

The Toronto Star’s food editor, Kim Honey, caught a lot of heat from angry readers last week in response to her article, “Incredible Edibles,” in which she described dispatching a small rabbit as part of a look at local, wild(ish) food. For the faint of heart, please note that “dispatching” is a gentle term [...]

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A new trend: BYOL

An interesting study by The NPD Group in the U.S. reveals that Americans are more likely than ever to carry their lunches from home — with predictable effects for lunch business at restaurants.
Some interesting facts from the July 24 news release:

Adult males carry brown-bagged lunches most frequently
White collar professionals with mid- to high-incomes tend tho [...]

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Go go gadget latte!

Having already noted my obsession with kitchen gadgetry, it should come as no surprise that I actively seek out new ways to spend money in the (home) kitchen.
Now, in my case, my home kitchen is presently lacking all appliances, cabinetry, counter tops, flooring, plumbing, etc. — which means that my budget for non-essential trade tools [...]

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No dessert until you eat all your peppadews

I used to sing with a small a cappella chamber choir, and at every rehearsal we’d take a short break halfway through to rest our voices, catch up with each other … and eat.
We called it “snack.” We were not very creative.
But I’ll never forget the fun we had musing about what preposterous items [...]

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