Todd and Chuck blog about their trips to Montréal
Posted in hotels on Dec 13th, 2009
I got an email from a reader asking for a few recommendations for places to stay in Montréal, and after I answered him, I thought I’d post my recommendations here.
These recommendations are highly biased (what on this blog isn’t?), and all the hotels are located in Old Montréal. If you want to stay elsewhere, feel [...]
So here’s the open question: Where can we eat on the holiday?
This is the question that vexes the traveler who isn’t planning to spend the holidays with family or friends. And the holidays are a great leveler because whether you’re new to a city or a frequent visitor, you can still be frustrated when [...]
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 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 [...]