Posts tagged: restaurant

Restaurant Review: Wow! Sushi – Unexpectedly Great Sushi

I have a big soft spot in my heart for small businesses, especially independent restaurants, who put their shingle up and offer a quality product or service. Particularly when it‘s something that I know something about, I can be picky, yet I am very enthusiastic when quality is placed first and the place does things [...]

Thursday August 25th, 2011 in , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Review: East Japanese Cuisine in St. Catharines

East Japanese Cuisine is but one of a number of all-you-can-eat (AYCE) sushi joints in Downtown St. Catharines. I have not yet tried its competitors in the immediate area, but having tried out East last night, I consider it a perfectly good AYCE sushi joint. Before I continue much further, I need to make 2 [...]

Monday May 30th, 2011 in , , , , | Comments Off

Smoke Meat Pete’s: The Best Meal I Had in Montreal

A colleague of mine recommended a few restaurants in Montreal that I really ought to try out. One of them was Au Pied de Cochon. The other was L’Express Bistro. Unfortunately, both were fully booked when I went to check them out. No chance of getting anything at all at Au Pied de Cochon. The [...]

Tuesday April 26th, 2011 in , , , | 3 Comments »

Chocolate + Crepe Communion: Montreal’s Juliette et Chocolat

Today has been my first full day in Montreal. Although I’ve been in the city before, my previous times were either for ski trips to Mont Tremblant – in which case I simply passed through the city on my way to the ski slopes – or during my primary school field trips – in which [...]

Monday April 18th, 2011 in , , | 4 Comments »

Are the Prices for A-La-Carte Sushi Gouging Or Are They Reasonable?

Making sushi takes effort and fresh, high quality seafood doesn’t come cheap. It’s easy to look at the price for real sushi – which means I’m not counting the all-you-can-eat mock variety – and reel from the cost for a-la-carte nigiri sushi. $4 for two pieces? $6? $9? Yep, you’ll see up to $9 for [...]

Thursday March 10th, 2011 in , , , , , | Comments Off