Jun 16 2008
There’s a new hotel/condo building in downtown Montreal, on the corner of Boul. René Lévesque and rue de la Montagne. It has got to be the shiniest building I’ve ever seen. It’s like the whole thing is made of glass and 18/10 stainless steel. I look at it every time I’m sitting on a certain […]
Mar 29 2008
Check out the cappuccino I had at Caffè Art Java (downtown Montreal) yesterday. Nice face! It not only looked pretty cool, it tasted great. If you ask me (and I know you’re asking me) Art Java makes the best coffee in town.
When I saw the face in the coffee I couldn’t help but think they […]
Mar 28 2008
According to Wikipedia:
Earth Hour is an international event that asks households and businesses to turn off their lights and non-essential electrical appliances for one hour on the evening of 29 March at 8PM local time to promote electricity conservation and thus lower carbon emissions.
I’m all for lowering carbon emissions. But if you live in Quebec, […]
Feb 17 2008
Brunch at Au Pied de Cochon. Never heard of such a thing? Me neither until this week. Apparently, they only do it once per year, or something like that. The story is unclear.
One thing is clear: it was culinary chaos, but in a good way. If you’re unfamiliar with Au Pied de Cochon, just Google […]
Feb 07 2008
Michel Rabagliati launched the English edition of his graphic novel Paul Goes Fishing at the Drawn & Quarterly store on Bernard St. in Montreal last night. I read, and enjoyed, the second installment in the “Paul” series late last year, and I was interested in reading more. (It is not necessary to read them […]
Feb 04 2008
There used to be a small grocery store on Boul. St. Laurent, in Chinatown, called Sun Hing. I loved that store and I rarely went elsewhere when shopping in that corner of the city, as it was a perfect one-stop shop for all my Asiatic culinary needs. Just over a year ago, Sun Hing burned […]
Jan 11 2008
(Updated! See below…)
According to Pascal Yiacouvakis, the morning weather guy on CBC Radio’s Montreal morning show, we’ve broken two seemingly opposing weather records so far this winter. Since December 21, we’ve broken the records for snow fall, and for warm temperatures!
We saw that writ large over the few days as the previous week’s big snowfall […]
