Posts tagged "restaurant"
Today's Special: November 22, 2013

Today’s Special: November 22, 2013

Today’s Special:  Totto Spicy Ramen, Totto Ramen, New York So you know that ramen is a big deal, right? Especially here in New York. Like, almost as big a deal as pizza. Wellllll maybe at this exact culinary moment in time, perhaps bigger than pizza. With ramen burgers causing crazy lines and ramen master Ivan...
Today's Special: March 21, 2013

Today’s Special: March 21, 2013

Today’s Special: Pea, burrata, and mint crostini, Gjelina, Los Angeles Like everyone else and their brother, I’m really ready for spring to arrive. I know that March is never an enjoyable month (spring forward, winter’s strong grip, the Ides), but this March seems particularly awful. Perhaps it’s because this year is the first time I’ve...

My dinner at Blanca

If you haven’t heard, Roberta’s makes the best pizza I’ve ever eaten and also just happens to be one of my favourite places to be in NYC. If you visit, I’ll want to take you there. From Sam Sifton’s review of Roberta’s last year, I knew that Chef Carlo Mirarchi did a tasting menu a...
Today's Special: October 15, 2012

Today’s Special: October 15, 2012

Today’s Special:  Caprese sandwich, Sullivan Street Bakery (Chelsea location), New York Forgive me. I forgot about this sandwich. I came across the photo and cursed myself for not posting about it at the height of summer, at the height of tomatoes. I don’t even know if the Sullivan Street Bakery is still making this sandwich...
No. 7 Sub. Or, when working in close quarters can be a good thing.

No. 7 Sub. Or, when working in close quarters can be a good thing.

Cubicle life is not something you can really avoid anymore. Before I was ever a full-time employee, I thought that the world depicted in The Office, Dilbert, and Office Space was hyperbole of the mundane. Not so much. It really is the most peculiar thing to be surrounded by people you cannot see, but of course, can clearly...
Solo in the City: Keste Pizza & Vino

Solo in the City: Keste Pizza & Vino

  Yes, another category. We likes to keep it interesting here at Cream and Sugar. I probably should have created this category, Solo in the City, years ago to describe my travel dining. But we have other ways to describe our travel dining.  So yeah, a new addition to describe a very underrated mode of...
Today's Special: June 19, 2012

Today’s Special: June 19, 2012

Today’s special: Duck rillettes and egg salad crostini, Colonie, Brooklyn I chose to live in the Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill area of Brooklyn because it was an area that became familiar and dear to my heart after a number of visits to friends who lived in that ‘hood. The brownstones, the trees, the mix of young...
Today's Special: April 24, 2012

Today’s Special: April 24, 2012

Today’s Special: Whisky bread, Gwynett St The reservation stars aligned on Saturday. OpenTable presented me with a table for two during prime time at East Williamsburg hot spot Gwynett St. Since opening last fall, the number of positive write ups have been been steadily climbing, with a number of them being published during the last...
Packing List: Vancouver

Packing List: Vancouver

The list that details how we will pack our tummies while adventuring away from home can be as essential as the one that reminds us to pack our toothbrush. Here are some post-mortem thoughts on our travels that may be useful to you one day. I’m not sure if I can be called a New Yorker...
Today's Special: November 2, 2011

Today’s Special: November 2, 2011

Today’s Special: Sweet and sour eggplant, Ensemble I know I’m not alone when I say that Dale was not my favourite contestant on Top Chef Canada. My Alberta roots were fond of Connie and my Eastern sensibilities bet on Rob to win. But, Dale won, and we all moved on. Dale moved on by opening...
Today's Special: August 10, 2011

Today’s Special: August 10, 2011

  Today’s Special: Short rib, Suika Growing up, my taste for Japanese was more teriyaki than toro. As sushi became overwhelmingly mainstream, I learned to navigate the maki and nigiri menus enough to have a few favourites (mostly veg, cooked items, and salmon). When faced with living in a city where its inhabitants eat sushi...
Today's Special: August 2, 2011

Today’s Special: August 2, 2011

  Today’s Special: Arctic char with fennel risotto, The Marc I was very disappointed when I heard that Il Portico was closing… for a parking lot. I have many fond memories of many meals and parties there over the years — for instance, my last meal in Edmonton before moving to Toronto; a Christmas party...