Todd and Chuck blog about their trips to Montréal
Posted in 2008 plans, restos on Dec 2nd, 2008
Less than three weeks from arrival in Montreal, here are the restaurant reservations:
December 19:
December 20: DNA
December 21: au Pied de Cochon
December 22: Laloux
December 23: Le Local
December 24: Bronte
December 25:
December 26: au Pied de Cochon
I noted earlier this year that we couldn’t resist dining at APDC twice on this trip, but we reserve the right to [...]
Posted in 2008 plans, attractions on Nov 28th, 2008
Three weeks from today, we’ll be in Montreal. We’re both getting pretty excited about this. (I get excited in August, Chuck reserves his eagerness for the 21 days before we embark.)
This weekend, he’ll be calling restaurants to line up reservations, while I choose a handful of things we might do while we’re there.
We’ve been to [...]
Posted in 2008 plans, restos on Nov 16th, 2008
Air Canada’s in-flight mag, enRoute, has published it list of the top 10 new restaurants in Canada, and while we should be surprised that only two restaurants in Montreal made the list, maybe we shouldn’t because there’s a lot of innovative cuisine popping up nationwide (although apparently not in eastern Canada, enRoute?!!?)
Nota Bene in Toronto [...]
Posted in 2008 plans on Oct 26th, 2008
For the past three weeks, I’ve started nearly every morning checking this page. Click the link and the graph explains why: the Loonie has plummeted against the dollar, one of the many ripples from the widening financial crisis.
We haven’t seen an exchange rate of about 78 cents to the US Dollar (as of Friday 10/24) [...]
Posted in 2008 plans, restos on Sep 25th, 2008
About five weeks ago, I took you through the first iteration of our restaurant planning for this year’s trip. I hope it was more enjoyable than last year’s vacation slide show because I’m back with round two.
This is the first list we’ve created to roughly approximate the number of dinners we’ll have in Montreal. I [...]
Posted in 2008 plans on Aug 27th, 2008
Christmas 2007 was our biggest trip to Montreal ever, and it was also one of our most enjoyable to date. Chuck and I were joined by two couples – close friends of ours – Michael and Bob, and Howard and Donovan. Both couples joined us for portions of our stay in Montreal, and for 3 [...]
Posted in 2008 plans, restos on Aug 17th, 2008
Chuck and I spend all year talking about the restaurants we visit in Montreal over the holidays, and planning for the next holiday trip. I realize this can seem a bit freaky, but it’s not really because a large percentage of our conversation is about food and restaurants. It’s just kind of a natural thing.
This [...]
Posted in 2008 plans, cafes on Aug 12th, 2008
I mentioned Anthony’s departure as barista at Cafe Sante Veritas a short while back, Anthony now provides some details about his new place, to be opening in downtown Montreal in October, most likely.
Cafe Myriade will be located on Mackay, between Ste. Catherine and Maissoneuve, which means it’s pretty close to that weird new Rice Pudding [...]