Category: food [有得食篇]

Whenever there is food - Food is any substance[1] consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells in an effort to produce energy, maintain life, or stimulate growth.

May 16 2014

Ciao wine bar

Located in downtown Yorkville, Ciao wine bar, my favorite kind of food, Italian 🙂  If I remember correctly, it was movenpick (the ice-cream place) at the same location from years ago.  Tho the entrance doesn’t look very appealing to me but once you open the door, the excitement started to kick in, the inside is very spacious and trendy.  Quite a lot of interesting dishes choices to choose from and the prices, woah, I always thought the restaurants in that area were always over priced but ummm not this place.  Ordered my all time favorite which is pasta as always and I was impressed, well, I guess in that area, it has to be or it will not survive right?  😛

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Rating: 9.0/10 (1 vote cast)

Mar 15 2014

0109 Dessert & Chocolate

0109 Dessert & Chocolate, not too often that you find a dessert place which is in a Chinese community, mostly because we Asians don’t like sweets. Luckily enough we picked out this place and it turned out pretty good, most dessert are not too sweet like some restaurants, their stuffs are pretty light in a good way, thumbs up! I would definitely go back just because of their cream brulee but beware because you probably need to make a reservation ahead of time because the place is packed with people unless you go early.

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Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)

Mar 15 2014

ZAKKUSHI (Japanese Yakitori Izakaya)

It’s that time of year again, To celebrate Karen birthday, we picked ZAKKUSHI a Japanese izakaya located in downtown Toronto. I actually passed by this place a few times and never knew this place is actually quite nice and spacious. The atmosphere is bascially like the other izakaya, once you go in they would greet you loudly and food are mostly BBQ stuffs. In my opinion, food is not the greatest compare to some others but still a very good place to try, as long as the fun factor is there, everything should be good B-) We did make a reservation because we had quite a lot of people but even if you have only a couple, I think you should make one too because this place is also very packed most of the time.

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Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)

Feb 28 2014

The London Arms

Unlike most restaurants inside malls, this one apparently is not a chain.  Located in the lower level of the Pen Centre St. Catherine’s Ontario, a pub like restaurant named The London Arms.  There are lots of food choices in the food court, a Kelsey’s and Boston Pizza in the parking lot of this mall, so with this much competition, a restaurant has to stand out and it does 🙂  Their menu is very simple, typical pub food but I was quite surprised the prices are not as expensive than I thought because it’s in a mall.  Food was quite good, the Italian sausage penne I ordered was soo creamy and tasty, and their fish and chips is probably the best in the area.  The best thing about this place is, they do have specials on a few kinds of beer before 6pm so if you are getting tired after a whole afternoon shopping, you can take a good break with a few beer in there and then you can go drunken shopping again, hehe

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Rating: 9.0/10 (1 vote cast)

Jan 11 2014

The Cheesecake Factory

If you think they serve dessert only, you are very wrong 😛  The Cheesecake Factory, a big chain restaurant you would only find in US, and the one I went to is located inside Walden Galleria Buffalo.  The place was packed with people at all time, there is always a wait time of over 30 mins if you want a table at the dinning area, luckily, we found a table at the bar area so no need to wait 😛  For a restaurant in a mall, this is gigantic, there are entrances from the mall and the outside and this place can probably hold at least 300 people.  I was very surprised when I saw the menu because there were just soo many different varieties of food you can choose from, they also have a skinnylicious menu which delivers a smaller portion of food, and of course, they have a freaking big varieties of dessert as well.  Food was delicious as expected, that’s why the place is always packed right?  So the next time if you are headed to Buffalo shopping, you might want to check this place out because it is a place to remember.  If you just want a little dessert and don’t want to sit in, they do have a take out counter 🙂

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Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)