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TORONTO: Delux bistro

There are lots of yummy things at Delux, a bistro in a neighbourhood that’s chock full of hot eateries, but there are two items that keep me coming back.

The pressed Cubano sandwich ($15) is divine, with mouth-watering layers of cider-cured pork shoulder, ham, gruyère cheese, cornichons and grainy mustard on homemade bread.

Owner/chef [...]

TORONTO: Great expectations

I’m not sure why I first wanted to try Thuet. It might have been an intriguing review or an episode of Opening Soon. The bistro is named after chef Marc Thuet, who hails from Alsace, France and has a bit of a bad-boy reputation. He smokes like a chimney and swears like a sailor, but [...]

MONCTON: J’adore les crêpes

My favourite lunch place in Moncton is in a cute converted house. I was excited to see Cafe Archibald has expanded its patio and enclosed it to muffle the traffic noise and lessen the mid-afternoon glare.

New Brunswick is an officially bilingual province if you didn’t know. So here in Moncton and as you get further [...]

VANCOUVER: The return of lardoons

Bistro Pastis is one of my Uncle Philip’s favourite restaurants and he enjoys a fine meal. I was lucky enough to be his guest there last week.

A few things really stuck out. Really attentive service, and real French cooking.

I know this because I got to eat lardoons again. The last time was in Paris. Bistro [...]

VANCOUVER: Heaven in a strip-mall wasteland

UPDATE: also Lounge and Restaurant closed as of 2008. A Chinese restaurant has taken over its former location.

The same fine dining restaurants dominate the “best of” lists every year in Vancouver. There’s my perennial favourite Bishop’s, crazy award-winner West, and TV chef Rob Feenie’s baby Lumiere. So when I offered to treat my parents to [...]