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Eat well and feed the hungry along the way—that’s the concept behind the annual What’s on the Table benefit being held this year on November 2. Since 2005, the fundraiser has gathered $1.5 million for The Stop, the innovative community food centre whose goal is to increase everyone’s access to healthy food (check out our interview with chef Chris Brown from shortly after he joined The Stop). Dining stations open at 6:30 p.m., and patrons won’t be starved for choice; the event features offerings from over 30 chefs, including Lynn Crawford of Ruby Watcho, Anthony Walsh of Canoe and pâtissier Nadège Nourian (see below for the very impressive full list).
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Just in time for Easter, a photographic tour of Toronto’s exceptional—and unusual—egg creations
Soignée Catering’s deconstructed BLT features a perfect 64-degree egg
Nutrient-dense, endlessly versatile, yet Platonically simple, eggs are truly one of nature’s perfect foods. While many chefs consign the simple orbs to breakfast servitude, others in Toronto bring them front and centre, whether in traditional dishes or more innovative concoctions. Here, 10 of the city’s most beautiful and delicious egg dishes.
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Menus start at $35 per person for a three-course meal.
Soignée Catering, 416-419-9880, soigneecatering.com.
Served as a pair as a first-course option on the restaurant’s three-course event menu, $60–75.
Didier, 1496 Yonge St., 416-925-8588, restaurantdidier.com.
$6.95/four, $9.95/eight.
Asian Legend, 418 Dundas St. W. (and five other locations), 416-977-3909, asianlegend.ca.
$4/pair.
Origin, 107 King St. E., 416-603-8009, origintoronto.com.
$1.
Ten Ren’s Tea Time, Unit 101, 111 Times Ave., Thornhill, 905-881-8896, tenrenstea.com/teatime.
$11.
Mildred’s Temple Kitchen, 85 Hanna Ave., 416-588-5695, templekitchen.com.
$1.
Swirl Wine Bar, 946 ½ Queen St. E., 647-351-5453, swirltoronto.com.
$4.80.
Guu Izakaya, 398 Church St., 416-977-0999, guu-izakaya.com.
$1.
Chiu Chow Boy, 3261 Kennedy Rd., 416-335-0336.
$0.85/tart.
ABC Bakery Shop, 3618 Victoria Park Ave., 416-493-3151.
The Best of Winterlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s 62 favourite restaurants
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January is upon us, and for many hungry Torontonians, that means one thing: Winterlicious. The menus are less predictable than previous years—crème brûlée’s out, lentils du Puy are in—so even the ’Licious haters might have a reason to take advantage of the festival this year. We’ve already named the 12 menus that we think are the best bets, but that doesn’t begin to cover it. Here, find Toronto Life’s 62 favourite Winterlicious restaurants, complete with menus, reviews and reservation numbers.
Winterlicious runs from January 28 to February 10. Reservations are accepted from January 13 onward (January 11 for American Express users).
The Winterlicious 2011 menus are out, so let’s compare them to previous years
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By now, Torontonians are well-seasoned winterliciousers—and at Winterlicious 2011, we will be deftly dodging the wilted arugula and heading straight for the belly of the beast (preferably pork). Looking through the newly published list of restaurants and menus, there is plenty to be pleased about this January. Our popular “Best of Winterlicious” piece is coming out next week, but we thought we’d get a jump on things and take a look at how this year’s roster compares with last year’s ’Licous lists.
The Long Weekender: eight things to do this Thanksgiving weekend that don’t involve turkey
On the agenda this weekend: Apocalypse Now, a Leafs game, a soup festival and Afrika Bambaataa
1. HARBOURKIDS: HARVEST (FREE!)
Despite our enjoyment of the word “hootenanny,” we were surprised to find out we didn’t know what it means. Far more than just any old party, a real hootenanny requires folk music and audience participation. Check one out with the kids this weekend. Oct. 9 to 11. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W., 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.
2. WALTER MURCH PRESENTS APOCALYPSE NOW AND THE STATE OF CINEMA
Walter Murch—a film editor, sound designer and film theorist—is a behind-the-scenes kind of guy who holds considerable influence. His audio work on Apocalypse Now netted him his first Oscar in 1979, making him more than qualified to discuss both the movie (Saturday) and the state of cinema (Sunday). Oct. 9 and 10. $18.15. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W., tiff.net.
Toronto restaurants have the second- and third-classiest washrooms in Canada, outdone by Burnaby
The results are in for the first annual Canada’s Best Restroom Award, and they’re disappointing: Burnaby’s Cactus Club Café—the kind of cheesy-swanky restaurant Michael Scott would go to for lunch—has bested all of Toronto’s washrooms. (We never thought a place with the word “cactus” in its name would be an inviting place to plant a naked bum, but here we are.) Hogtown takes the second, third and fifth spots, with Spice Route taking the silver and Mildred’s Temple Kitchen getting the bronze. The Metro Convention Centre got fifth place.
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Spice Route, Mildred’s vie for title of Canada’s Best Restroom
Yes, such a title exists. The contest to find the best washroom in the country announced its five finalists today, with three restrooms from Toronto and two from Vancouver. (Did anyone even visit the Maritimes and Prairies?)
And the nominees are:
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What really happened at Mildred’s Temple Kitchen on Valentine’s Day
So exactly what (or who) went down over the Valentine’s Day weekend at Mildred’s Temple Kitchen after last week’s media storm over the bathroom sex promotion? “I really wouldn’t know, since our bathrooms are unisex. I’m sure it did happen, though,” says owner Donna Dooher. “We think a couple of people just went in and came back out for a giggle.”
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Mildred’s Temple Kitchen takes it all back
It was fun while tongues were wagging, but we suppose Mildred’s tongue was in her cheek all along. After a few days of massive media overexposure, Mildred’s Temple Kitchen is reneging on its suggestion that customers engage in some sexual fun in its unisex washrooms. “It was just meant to be a joke,” Laurie Hall told the Star. Her PR firm, Flex, is handling the restaurant’s Big Love promotion, which includes aphrodisiac dishes and optional handcuffs. “We were just kiddin’” confirms the restaurant in a Twitter response to Perez Hilton (of all people), adding, in another tweet, “Can’t this town still have some fun?”
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Bathroom sex at Mildred’s: the gift that keeps on giving (to the media)
Forget the Olympics—this week, Canada is known as the country that lets patrons get it on in restaurant washrooms. News of the Valentine’s Day special at Mildred’s Temple Kitchen has exploded on the Internet, with coverage in Romania, Portugal and Hong Kong. In the States, outlets UPI, the Huffington Post, Drudge Report and the Village Voice (which makes the obligatory Purell joke) have picked up the story.
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Let’s tryst again: Mildred’s Temple Kitchen encouraging sex in its washrooms
Mildred's gets saucy, and not in the kitchen (Photo by jbcurio)
Hoping to spice things up for Valentine’s Day, or perhaps to attract a different breed of customer (the Larry Craig–George Michael set), Mildred’s Temple Kitchen is encouraging customers to have sex in its four unisex bathrooms. According to the Toronto Star, Mildred’s has long encouraged loo liaisons (its former iteration, Mildred Pierce, had copies of the Kama Sutra lying about), but now the Liberty Village restaurant is being more explicit. “Have you given any thought to moving beyond the bedroom?” asks its Web site. “Check out Mildred’s Sexy Bathrooms throughout the weekend of Big Love. You get the picture.”
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Toronto’s best brunch: five dishes that can make the weekend
Brunch is a way of life in this town, where we’ll queue with bed head and a hangover for perfect eggs. Below, five dishes worth rising early(ish) for.
Blueberry pancakes from Mildred's Temple Kitchen (Photo by Daniel Shipp)
Cora Pizza reopens, Joanne Kates picks her top restaurants, the fooderati’s top Twitterers
Ratted out: Cora Pizza reopens after health inspectors discovered rats on the premises (Photo by The Pizza Review)
• U of T students, rejoice: Cora Pizza reopened its doors last week. The restaurant, a long-standing refuge of drunken university students, was closed due to unsanitary conditions (including, apparently, several dead rats and rat feces on the premises). With a history like this, we’re sure the customers will come flocking back. [CBC]
• Joanne Kates counts down Toronto’s top new restaurants of 2009, with fairly predictable results. Among her favourites are Buca, Black Hoof, the revamped Splendido, Osteria Ciceri e Tria and Mildred’s Temple Kitchen. The one wild card is Ba Shu Ren Jia, a Szechuan spot with a four-figure Steeles Avenue address. [Globe and Mail] Read the rest of this entry »
Winterlicious 2010: the list of restaurants is out
(Photo by John Hritz)
It’s that time of year again, when sniping begins over the dozens of menus featuring new (and often unexciting) ways to prepare house salad, chicken and a trio of sorbet. That’s right: the Winterlicious list is out, and it’s 150 restaurants strong.
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Tyler Cunningham and Frank Romano go spatula to spatula in Liberty Village booze-off
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Mildred’s Temple Kitchen is staging a battle (Crown) royal tomorrow. House chef Tyler Cunningham and Frank Romano (of Far Niente) will face off in an Iron Chef–style cook-off to launch the LCBO’s What’s Your Whisky Festival. The chefs will compete during the preparation of four rye-soaked courses, each based on a Canadian brand of booze, to prove that whisky is—wait for it—the next, next red wine.
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