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Victory Cafe Summer Cask Ale Festival

Filed in events,restaurants,Toronto, July 14, 2009, 9:51 pm by ,

Rich and I attended the summer version of the Victory Cafe’s cask ale festival this past weekend, put on in partnership with CASK!. I covered the winter version for Food TV, but this time we were just going for us. Upon arriving we noted the crowd wasn’t quite as big as at the winter version, [...]

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Mel’s Diner… closed?

Filed in restaurants,Toronto, , 12:31 am by , ,

Coming back from seeing Matisyahu play at the Opera House, Rich and I noticed that Mel’s Diner was closed.  Wait, hold on… closed? Aren’t they open 24 hours a day? The ‘Notice of Distress’ posted to the door, dated July 13th, seemed to indicate they were being locked out for non-payment of rent. I don’t [...]

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Fresh organic food in the Annex

Filed in shopping,Toronto, March 23, 2009, 10:50 pm by ,

Rich and I spend a lot of our free time in the Annex, just hanging out, sipping coffee at cafes or grabbing a pint at the Victory Cafe. So it’s only fitting that we’re moving there. Just two months to go! I recently reviewed Organics on Bloor for Foodtv.ca, the timing for which was rather [...]

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Mmm, beer

Filed in drink,events,restaurants,Toronto, February 5, 2009, 4:16 pm by ,

Last weekend, Rich and I attended the Victory Cafe’s beer festival, in celebration of the fantastic cask ales being produced right here in Ontario. The event was a huge success – not only was there a huge lineup to get in by about 1pm, but they were completely sold out by 5pm! I wrote up [...]

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The Great Falafel-off!

Filed in restaurants,Toronto, July 4, 2008, 5:39 pm by ,

Recently I wrote an article for foodtv.ca about falafel here in Toronto.  I thought I’d post something here as well, especially since we’ve been back to both of these places since the article was published. I’m a big fan of falafel.  Growing up in the Maritimes, I wasn’t really exposed to it until I moved [...]