Abbey’s Kitchen Stadium

Abbey’s Kitchen Stadium is a series of Iron-Chef style cooking competitions that feature chefs from many of Toronto’s restaurants, whose cuisines range from pizzas to seafood to fine dining. The goal of the cooking series is to raise money and awareness for the local food initiative, My Food My Way. This initiative was started by …

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Crossroads Diner

One of the newest and uniquely wrapped food trucks on the streets of Toronto is Crossroads Diner. The truck is the brainchild of David Gleeson who started working in restaurants in his mid-teens.  Like many successful people in the business, David started his career by washing dishes. He eventually graduated to working the line for …

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Lisa Marie

On April 19th Matt Basile, aka Fidel Gastros, will open the doors and welcome the public to Lisa Marie, one of the most anticipated restaurants in Toronto. This past Sunday, Matt hosted a media event at his new restaurant to give us a preview of his menu. I wonder if Matt would remember earlier this …

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Toronto Underground Market

On March 9th, I was fortunate enough to be part of the media team that covered the first Toronto Underground Market (TUM) of 2013, which was held at the Evergreen Brick Works. This event was catered by quite a large number of first-time vendors featuring an amazing variety of cuisines that ranged from Korean to …

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Sul Irmaos Foodery

What’s one of the last things you think of when someone mentions Brampton to you? In my case it was great food, but two local boys are on a mission to change that way of thinking. Jason(30) and Jonathan(26) Pereira opened Sul Irmaos Foodery in September of 2012 and have been steadily changing the way …

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It begins….

Welcome to my very first post! A while back I was at home making dinner and I mentioned to my wife that since everything I do seems to revolve around food maybe I should start a blog. She looked at me and in her ‘Look I’m starving so stop babbling and finish cooking so we …

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