Restaurant Review: Canis on Queen West fixes the prix fixe for Joanne Kates
Choice aplenty at this fastidious Queen West resto makes for fab multi-course menus.
Category: Restaurants
When kid-sick is the new homesick
Parenting news these days is about how to get your kids ready for camp, how to know if they’re ready and what to pack. You know that already. But how about getting parents ready for camp? We all understand that sending a child to camp is a huge developmental challenge for them. Leaving home for … Continued
Cabin etiquette: Why annoying kids matter
Our own anxiety causes us to forget what Wendy Mogel so eloquently labelled “the blessing of a skinned knee.” The social equivalent of a skinned knee is the undesirable child in the cabin.
Joanne Kates on the New T.O. Brunch: Benny There, Drank That
Pow Wow Café When eggs Benny met a Kensington Market indigenous restaurant, English muffin morphed into native frybread, hollandaise turned into genteel cream sauce spiked with melting goat cheese atop the oozing eggs, and smoked salmon replaced the usual ham, all to good effect. Pow Wow’s other brunch staple is the Ojibwe taco. Instead of … Continued
Joanne Kates on the New T.O. Brunch: Game On vs. Veg It Up
Antler Brunching at a self-styled locavore, wild food, seasonal resto on Dundas West brings its very modern Toronto form of hip. Mygawd, we’re trendy merely by virtue of walking in the door! How comforting! As are the perfectly cooked eggs in the Benny, bright orange farmhouse yolks running over a big piece of unfatty super-crisp … Continued
How to protect your daughter from ugly messages about beauty
How do we teach our daughters to love their bodies? Why must we? Because they are bombarded with imagery, from social media, movies and TV. The pictures tell them that the only woman worth paying attention to has big (store-bought?) breasts and a tiny waist.
Perched above Bay Station, Brothers is home to a very clever kitchen
Every single plate of food they put in front of us is … fabulous. Glorious ingredients, sourced carefully, fresh, pure, excellent. All treated with utmost respect and grace. Worth putting up with the guy.
A ring to rally against violence and hatred
Thanks to the global village and the online info-explosion, we all, even our young ones, know too much about the sorrows of the world. Too much to feel safe. Which creates an urgent question: How do we talk to kids about this fractured and fear-inducing world?
Restaurant Review: La Banane is Ossington’s dishy new bistro
Take a restaurant dream team, add a pinch of hipster, a soupçon of cream and a healthy dollop of impeccable seafood, season it à la française, and what have you got? The dishiest new resto to hit Toronto in a year!
Restaurant Review: Chef Steve Gonzalez is back with his gigantic new King West eatery
Cherry-picking the menu works really well. Some of the fusion items, where East meets Latin, are really fun. Chef’s suite of ceviches are superbly entertaining: we’re captivated by the variegated flavours of tiraditos, raw tuna napped in passion fruit and lulo sauce, with black and white sesame seeds, chili-studded purée of butternut squash and baby greens.
The Michelin restaurant guide doesn’t bother with Toronto. Should we care?
For Canadians, despite the rising stock of our homegrown cuisine, international acclaim as a tourist destination and a blooming awareness of our independent cultural identity, the guide has yet to make a Canadian selection in its 116-year history.
Joanne Kates on Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2016 — the top five
Joanne Kates on five delicious joints that will change the way you dine.