Here’s a round-up of the food & drink articles in Toronto’s papers today…
Toronto Star:
- Corey Mintz hits four of Toronto's most popular brunch spots - Edward Levesque's Kitchen, Bonjour Brioche, Saving Grace and Aunties & Uncles - at four different times on four different Sundays, and finds that the most of his waits for seating are shorter than expected, and the food is great at all of them.
- In another article, Mintz explains why it's so hard to get a 7:30 PM dinner reservation on a Friday or Saturday night.
- Gord Stimmell spotlights a few lesser-known grape varieties in his wine column this week.
- Mark Bittman gives a new twist to the old adage "everything tastes better with bacon", and wraps fish in prosciutto.
- Kim Honey has a whirlwind interview with Jamie Oliver, in town this past week to promote his Jamie at Home cookbook, and his TV series Jamie's Kitchen Australia.
- Sarah Barmak reports on a sobering new study that proves what many of us suspected all along: close to 100% of the fast food meat in the US comes from animals that have been fed corn almost exclusively.
National Post:
- Gina Mallet discovers that despite the economic downturn, the expense account lunch is alive and well on Bay Street, as she drops 100 bucks on lunch for two at Far Niente.
- Margaret Swaine reviews three Ontario wines - a white, a red, and a bubbly rosé.
- Adam McDowell kicks off a new monthly series of bar & pub profiles (hmmmm... what a good idea!), and finds Sin & Redemption to be more sinful than redemptive - and not in a good way. He also tastes the six beers in the new Ontario Craft Brewers Discovery Pack, although he only mentions one of them by name.
- Amy Rosen runs through a bunch of new and classic items from the 25th anniversary President's Choice Insider's Report.
- Devra First suggests a few cheaper and more recession-friendly cuts of meat. (Not available on the Post website, but it's online at the Boston Globe where it originally ran earlier this week.)
- Bonnie Stern recommends some recipes full of antioxidant ingredients to help fight off the flu.
- Brian Hutchinson encourages everyone to eat more gonads. Sea urchin gonads, that is.
Globe & Mail:
- Joanne Kates is sure that her dear, departed Boba would love the smoked meat at Caplansky's.
- Heather Sokoloff chats with Ryan Jennings and David Steele, authors of Entertaining with Booze.
- Lucy Waverman suggests three simple and elegant recipes for holiday dinner parties.
- Amy Verner interviews David Rocco, the amiable TV chef who some consider to be Canada's answer to Jamie Oliver due to his push to get cooking added to the curriculum at schools.
- Sasha Chapman visits Toronto's newest pair of fine cheese emporiums, About Cheese and Nancy's Cheese.
