Todd and Chuck blog about their trips to Montréal
Posted in attractions on Oct 11th, 2009
… and much of Canada, of course.
This was one of the more welcome stories of the week, especially for the thousands of tourists who visit cities like Montreal and Toronto every year – many for the first time. There’s nothing like being able to get a sense of a place before you go there, and [...]
Posted in restos on Sep 11th, 2009
Marie-Claude Lortie, in La Presse this week, writes that, while the ambience of Newtown is nothing like their old digs at Laloux, Patrice Demers and Marc-André Jetté are back in the business of creating really beautiful and good tasting food.
This follows a somewhat lukewarm review from Lesley Chesterman in the Montreal Gazette – albeit just [...]
Posted in 2009 plans, restos on Aug 30th, 2009
Well, with only(!) 110 days left before the next trip to Montreal, and our sixth holiday spent in the city, our restaurant plan is beginning to take shape.
Readers of this blog know that food matters a lot to us, and on a vacation where the goal is to relax and do little or nothing, planning [...]
Posted in restos on Aug 9th, 2009
Thinking of Laloux again, and Newtown and Patrice Demers, here the video that gave us our first look at Demers in action. From the Something’s Cooking series (now defunct), here he is making the stunning Lychee Granite with Chef Nancy Hinton narrating the action.
We had this dessert twice at Laloux, and Chuck re-created it at [...]
Posted in 2009 plans, restos on Aug 9th, 2009
Let me pass on a couple reviews of note about two restaurants we’ve been watching closely over the past several months.
Laloux
In the Montreal Gazette, Lesley Chesterman visits and finds much to praise in the cooking of Eric Gonzalez and pastry chef Michelle Marek. First the setting, which hasn’t changed a bit and that makes her [...]
Posted in restos on May 7th, 2009
More chef musical chairs:
Mari-Claude Lortie of La Presse blogs that Éric Gonzalez will be the new chef at Laloux, replacing Marc André Jetté, who has departed for Newtown with Patrice Demers, as we’ve already noted.
We’re familiar with Gonzalez from his time at Cube until late 2006 (we ate there the final night); he went to [...]
Posted in restos on Apr 30th, 2009
Patrice Demers and Marc-André Jetté put Laloux back on the map of great Montreal restaurants, and now comes news of their imminent departure.
Demers and Jetté will move to the kitchen at Newtown on May 17th. We don’t know a lot about Newtown, but its reputation (if you read the Chowhound boards) seems to stand on its [...]
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, 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, 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 [...]