Tidbits

Sleepover at Ikea - Maybe this is the only way to get to the $1 early enough…
A ramen bath - Japanese spa with special baths resembling instant noodles. I wanna play!
Old age homes for dogs - 1) Old dogs don’t like to be abandoned at strange places. 2) Playing with young puppies will probably cause the older dogs to die faster due to exhaustion.
A remote-controlled pigeon - Oh the poor thing…
An article on a brilliant method of teaching grade schoolers about bats and rabies. I smell a lawsuit.
Will trade beer for Crumpler bags. Tempted by the beanbag and messenger bags…

Weekend of Eating and Walking

January 29, 2007, 11:22 pm

This past weekend consisted of a lot of food, and a lot of walking. Winterlicious is on again this year. After previous years’ disappointments at the “upscale” restaurants, we settled for a more “regular” place this time: Pony Bistro. This is a small French bistro in the Little Italy district that served $15 lunch. Local food critics has good things to say about this restaurant, but the biggest problem is that the cooking tends to be inconsistent. I’ll say that’s correct for our meals. The majority of the table ordered sea bass, but some were cooked better than others. The size of the filet was also inconsistent between plates.

I ordered:

Wild Mushroom Soup with truffle essence
Seared White Bass with soya coconut fried rice, wilted swiss chard and pineapple reduction
Tiramisu

The soup was quite good. The fish was pretty flakey and not overcooked. The rice was a bit heavy on the soya sauce though. Both dessert were tasty, but nothing special.

The other mains of Duck Quesadilla and Vegetarian Penne Alfredo. KD said the pasta was bland, but seemed to Esther enjoyed her quesadilla.

All in all, a pretty good meal for $15!

That was lunch. The eating didn’t stop there! We finished at 3, and with nothing better to do for the rest of the day, we went off to park at Matt’s place and proceeded to walk to Eaton Centre, pretty much because it was too cold to be wandering around outside. How silly we were.

So we walked through the mall, to Dundas. Decided to go check out the Henrys outlet, which was on Queen, so back south we went. Then it was 6, so Esther suggested this Japanese place. Which was on Dundas. So back north we walked.

Dinner was at Japango, this tiny little eatery that you prolly won’t give a second glance at, walking by. Due to time constraints (they were booked solid from 7:30, good thing we got there at 6:30), we weren’t able to try their chef’s special, but the regular deluxe dinner was awesome. I normally am not a big fan of sushi because other places tend to serve the cheap stuff like squid, so I really prefer just getting all salmon. It says much about this place when I liked everything MORE than the salmon (except for the tuna).

Definately a place to check out again, after making reservations!

However, they only had ice cream for dessert. And $3.99 seemed a bit much for ice cream, even if they have black sesame. And since it was still early (7-ish), we decided to go somewhere else for dessert.

I recently heard about three places in downtown that I wanted to try: Burrito Boyz, Crepes a Go Go, and Far Coast coffee.

I’ve already been to Burrito Boyz (very good), so off to the crepes place we went. We were told it was located around St George station, and we thought it would be a great idea to walk there. So from Dundas, up University, around Queen’s Park, to Bloor. Only the place wasn’t there. It had moved. To Yonge and Yorkville. And it closed at 7.

Scratch that, let’s try the coffee place next. I remembered it was at Bloor and Bay, and it was. Except they made their coffees and teas from little packages they put into a machine, and the drinks weren’t very strong. And they were also expensive. But at least they were open! The decor was funky too, so we hung around nursing our lukewarm, water-down, pricy drinks until 10 or 11.

Bored, we pulled out a TTC map to examine how far we walked. Surprised that it’s only around 2.5 km from Bloor to Queen’s Quay. So we just walked back down Yonge to Matt’s place.

At least the Gardiner didn’t fall on us when we walked by…

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