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The Rosedale Diner is sort of a neighbourhood date night place. That’s how I remember it, anyway, having taken a date there about a decade ago. It’s funny that I remember the Duck Confit more than the conversation, but perhaps not all that surprising. I had read Kitchen Confidential and […]

The Rosedale Diner



He gets it wrong, but maybe I’ve explained what I’m looking for badly. “Culture comes from the top down,” says John Keeling standing behind a row of bleachers during intermission. “Say I get a bonus annually and the director of the company comes to me and says that next year, […]

Some Thoughts on Fuller’s






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“One apricot, Please.” “One kilo?” says the vendor, sizing up a sizeable tourist. “One apricot. Please.” He rumbles a couple from the top of a punnet and finds a ripe apricot, understanding that it is going to be eaten immediately. I feel I need to be doing something while stumbling […]

An Ideal Saturday in Mechelen


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Thumbing out of airplane mode somewhere between wheels down and passport control, I was surprised to learn that Barley Days, a perennially underperforming brewery from Picton, Ontario had decided to take up the Buck-A-Beer challenge. The main surprise would be the constraint that it seemed unlikely to be a profitable […]

A Busman’s Holiday