Rag Round-Up - Thursday, May 31st
Posted by Sheryl Kirby in news and media, rag round-up on May 31, 2007 at 1:18 pm
It’s the hot summer guide in NOW this week and they’ve got some great hot summer tips for foodies, such as the Royal York running tours and teas all summer for the great price of $19.07. Steven Davey also compares some of Toronto’s favourite ice cream spots, dishes up the latest in restaurant news, and takes a trip around the globe to Globe Bistro. Graham Duncan offers up some picks of wine and beer that go great with barbeque.
There’s also talk of grilling over at Eye with their cool summer guide (get it? Because at NOW, it’s a “hot” summer guide?), where Kathryn Borel offers up advice and recipes on how to cook a bunch of things you’d never expect on the barbeque - like an omelette - which seems like more trouble than it’s worth, to be honest.
As an apartment-dwelling vegetarian, all this talk of what to grill is starting to overwhelm me, but it’s to the Barbie again at Metro where Billy Munnelly recommends Merlot to go with your hunk of cooked cow.
Elsewhere in Metro, Aonghus Kealy looks at the illegalities of Crumpler’s “beer for a bag” promotion and Jennifer Yang looks at the Caesar, apparently Canada’s favourite cocktail.
Invented in Calgary 38 years ago by a bartender named Walter Chell, there are now 300 million Caesars served in Canada each year, and many people consider it to be our official cocktail. “Canadians are crazy about Caesars,” says Len Fragomeni, a Motts Clamato mixologist. “I always tell people, ‘You’re not a Canadian unless you drink Caesars!”
Maybe that’s why I’ve been rooting for Anaheim in the Stanley Cup finals, because I could happily never drink a Caesar again. Eugh!
Metro has also got a review of the very child-friendly Daddy-O’s Milk Bar on Roncesvalles, where the waffles are tasty, the shakes have funny names and the clientèle are mostly small.
