Lisa Marie’s
Last week I dropped by Lisa Marie’s long awaited restaurant. After thousands of sandwiches, pop-ups, a food truck a TV show…now his own restaurant serving up Chiccetti…Italian-inspired small plates. Click the slide show below…you’ll be going to Lisa Marie’s soon!
Greek Lenten Dinner, Recap
Last night’s Greek Supper Club took us back to the warm and cozy cooking studio at Aprhodite Cooks where my guests enjoyed fine Greek wine with a Lent-friendly menu created by yours truly. The challenge with this menu was to create dishes that were exciting to the eye, Lent-friendly in nature and of course, delicious! […]
Tsiknopempti – Greek Carnival Dinner Recap
Last night’s dinner was probably my most ambitious to date…record sold out crowd of over 60 guests, a menu with a over a dozen items and all this being cooked in a kitchen I have never worked in before. My first Tsiknopempti dinner was a delicious success with lots of Kechribari retsina, Babatzim Ouzo, Alfa […]
Deipnon – Food & Wine of Ancient Greece Recap
Last night my guests were taken on a culinary journey back in time, when ancient Greeks had no lemons, no citrus, no tomatoes, potatoes. eggplants or peppers! The cuisine was centered on olives, olive oil, grapes, wine, vinegar for acidity, grape must and honey for sweetness. Lamb and goat were the meats of the day, […]
Kalofagas Greek Christmas Dinner Recap
It seems that these Greek Supper Clubs keep getting better and better! I think it’s a combo of getting more comfortable in the kitchen space we’ve been using of late (Aphrodite Cooks Studio) and I am getting the hang of cooking for large parties – not entertaining at home. I do think that many restaurants […]
Recap: My Big Fat Greek Dinner With Reel Eats
Just over a week ago I cooked a meal for over 30 food and cinema enthusiasts organized by my friends at Real Eats. The evening’s theme was centered around the very popular comedy “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and I was given the pleasure of creating a menu that would pay homage to the movie. […]
Kalofagas Greek Supper Club – An Evening in Florina Recap
My bones are a little achy today but I’m beaming (still) after last night’s Supper Club with a focus on the cuisine of Florina. Being that this region is where my parents are from, I went into this dinner very confident but also still worried because I knew some folks would be there who shared […]
Artisinale – French Country Dining in Guelph
There’s a lot going on in Toronto these days, so much that sometimes you just want to get out of the city, away from the traffic, the phone calls, kids and any of life’s daily pressures. A trip out of the city can recharge your batteries and despite Toronto’s growing problems we have the countryside […]
Thalassa! Thalassa! July 10th Greek Supper Club Recap
I just received the fabulous photos of last week’s Greek Supper Club held on the rooftop of a condo in the Fashion District of downtown Toronto. The memories are still fresh in my mind but I want to share this fabulous evening for those of you who couldn’t make it or you’re thinking about attending […]
Hogtown Gastropub
Recently I had the pleasure of attending the re-launch of the Hogtown Gastropub, the Old Auld Spot at 633 College in Little Italy. My first visit here last year was for a meeting and a couple of beers and this time I was spolied with platter after platter of pub-grub. With a term like gastropub […]
