Another visit to Guu Izakaya. Tried many new dishes except for my usual must-orders gyu carpaccio and kinoko bibimbap. As usual, service was excellent - servers were friendly and cute and the food came very quickly. There were 3 birthdays that night so the atmosphere was even louder and livelier than usual. Shekwasa - gin, cointreau, lime juice, grapefruit juice ($6.3) Quite strong and not...

July 22 2012Summerlicious $25 Lunch Auberge is a classy, warm and elegant French restaurant. It feels like a large cozy house when you first enter.  Sophie We were seated in the Sophie dining room, a bit let down 'cause I think the main dining room with the black and white chairs looks nicer. Peach GazpachoBrandade Croquettecrispy fish croquette, arugula salad, black olive, red pepper aioliI loved this!...

Sweet Potato Fries ($6 --> $4)Soft and mushy inside with a crispy and overly salty coating. I feel like a lot of restaurants are putting sweet potato fries on their menus now, but the best and only good ones I've had are the ones at Moxies and Joey.Mussels in White Wine Sauce ($6 --> $4)This was a good portion and worth it for...

Italian$15 Summerlicious lunchI had only planned one Summerlicious this year, but my co-worker organized a Summerlicious lunch at Archeo on Thursday. It was my first time at the Distillery District. The interior of Archeo is like a big, open concept urban cabin. To start, we enjoyed complementary bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. For the appetizer, I had the Daily Soup - pear...

Seafood Doria (~$8)Looks like mashed potatoes, doesn't it? It's rice with cream sauce covered in a hard layer of cheese. The taste is good at first bite - creamy and cheesy, however the execution was poor. The cheese was too hard so it did not blend with the sauce and the rice, which was also a bit hard.Salmon NeckNot the best angle, but...

July 13-15, 2012 @ Markham Civic CentreSet up - transforming a parking lot into a land of tents, food and peopleAside from lamb/beef skewers, grilled squid, takoyaki, fried squid balls and popcorn chicken, these were some of the new foods I tried: 大腸包小腸Taiwanese sausage and sticky rice sausage - $2 each or $4 for both (sausage inside the sticky rice sausage). I only had...