Weekend eats
On Saturday, I went downtown to see the Four Seasons centre open house. Since there was a wait between getting tickets and going inside, we decided to get some brunch so we rode the Queen streetcar west to Markham St. and went to Vienna Home Bakery (#14 on the NOW cheap eats page). It's a tiny little place that serves up brunches, light lunches, and goodies like ginger muffins with lemon curd. I had a quiche with ricotta, tomatoes, feta, and maybe something else, on a really rich and buttery crust. It came with a pretty decent salad dressed with some mustardy sauce. Karen had the omelette of the day - wild mushrooms, and more feta - with home fries and two slices of good toast. Both of our dishes were really tasty and had us mmm-ing and savouring the flavour. The downside was the price: both entrees were $9, and we each had a $1.50 cup of coffee as well. I guess it's not too expensive given that the food has quality ingredients, but it's beyond the usual Crispy Beef meal.
At night, we went up to Newmarket to eat at this Japanese restaurant called Solo sushi-ya, where we had the omakase meal (chef's choice - $35 each - for Karen's birthday). Overall quite tasty and a good experience - it's a small place and we had a chance to chat with the chef quite a bit. There were 6 courses overall, all small, but at the end of it I was pretty stuffed. I'll go into this in detail in another post when I finally get the pictures from my camera.
Sunday for lunch we went to a wonton noodle place near my house called Hello! Wonton Noodle - basically on Yonge at Church (Ave, not St, between Sheppard and Finch). There are three toppings (shrimp wontons, beef slices, and fish balls) which you can get on three types of noodles in soup (thin egg noodles, flat rice noodles, and thin rice vermicelli). You can also get lo mein (egg noodles without soup) or just toppings in soup with no noodles. A normal sized bowl costs between $4 and (I think) $6, depending on how many toppings you get and whether you get the dry noodles or no noodles, both of which cost more. You can also get a plate of chinese veggies for $2. The food's pretty good, but the star of the show is the chili oil, which is not only pretty damned hot (I was sweating and crying) but also really tasty and fragrant, unlike a lot of chili oils which just taste spicy. Part of my problem was that the chili oil tasted so good that I couldn't lay off it. Definitely worth the subsequent ass trouble.
Sunday night I just made a secret-style sandwich: hot capicollo, provolone, roasted peppers, la bomba, and some tomato on a baguette.
At night, we went up to Newmarket to eat at this Japanese restaurant called Solo sushi-ya, where we had the omakase meal (chef's choice - $35 each - for Karen's birthday). Overall quite tasty and a good experience - it's a small place and we had a chance to chat with the chef quite a bit. There were 6 courses overall, all small, but at the end of it I was pretty stuffed. I'll go into this in detail in another post when I finally get the pictures from my camera.
Sunday for lunch we went to a wonton noodle place near my house called Hello! Wonton Noodle - basically on Yonge at Church (Ave, not St, between Sheppard and Finch). There are three toppings (shrimp wontons, beef slices, and fish balls) which you can get on three types of noodles in soup (thin egg noodles, flat rice noodles, and thin rice vermicelli). You can also get lo mein (egg noodles without soup) or just toppings in soup with no noodles. A normal sized bowl costs between $4 and (I think) $6, depending on how many toppings you get and whether you get the dry noodles or no noodles, both of which cost more. You can also get a plate of chinese veggies for $2. The food's pretty good, but the star of the show is the chili oil, which is not only pretty damned hot (I was sweating and crying) but also really tasty and fragrant, unlike a lot of chili oils which just taste spicy. Part of my problem was that the chili oil tasted so good that I couldn't lay off it. Definitely worth the subsequent ass trouble.
Sunday night I just made a secret-style sandwich: hot capicollo, provolone, roasted peppers, la bomba, and some tomato on a baguette.
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