In The Papers - Saturday, March 31st
Posted by Greg Clow in in the papers, news and media on March 31, 2007 at 11:10 pm
The backlash against Colborne Lane continues this week, as Amy Pataki in the Toronto Star follows Gina Mallet’s lead from last week and gives the popular newcomer a not-so-positive review. While she does manage to compliment of a few of the dishes, she is annoyed by chef Claudio Aprile’s tendency towards flavour element overload:
The disconnect between Colborne Lane’s casual atmosphere and its weighty food is as intentional as it is jarring. It starts with the menu, so encumbered by description – a $17 appetizer of “rare tuna + crispy nori + cucumber + wasabi foam + avocado + azumi seaweed + lake trout roe + ginger + yuzu + iced soy sauce” is just one daunting choice – that even the runners can’t recall half of what they put in front of us.
Also in The Star:
- Gordon Stimmell looks at some highlights of today’s Vintages release, with an emphasis on the Aussie entries.
- Marion Kane chats with Ina Garten during her recent visit to Toronto, and gives a recipe for Fresh Pea Soup from Garten’s latest cookbook, Barefoot Contessa At Home.
- Susan Sampson recommends using pie weights to bake a Milk Chocolate Chai Tart.
Strolling along Queen West this afternoon, Sheryl and I were surprised to find the original location of
My highly anticipated visit started rather inauspiciously with high spirits slowly dampening under a cold drizzle as I waited for the complimentary shuttle to the show. I turned up at Kipling station at 3:10pm, found no indications of the special shuttle stop and spent some time asking around for the way to the stop (being secure with the website information of the next shuttle leaving at 3:30pm). By 3:50 I was chilled to the bone waiting at the curb of the road (as advised by staff) and boy, was I not alone! I hope all these people didn’t develop heavy head colds the next morning as I did. Finally by ten past four the shuttle came and took off to our great relief. Frankly, spending an hour of any day, let alone Saturday, like this is pretty lame. And isn’t it all about propagating the “Don’t drink and drive” program? OK, rant-time over.
In this week’s edition of Gremolata:
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