Entries Tagged as ‘Restaurant’

October 30, 2007

The Velvet Glove ripped by reviewer

Wow.
My husband and I have a list of places we’d like to try in Winnipeg. Restaurant Dubrovnik, 529 Wellington and Hy’s are all on the list. One of the restaurants that we’ve been noodling over for a while is The Velvet Glove. They boast a CAA Four Diamond Award, and frequently appear on “must-eat” lists [...]

August 21, 2007

Sydney’s at the Forks (aka, The Fancy Side of The Forks Market)

I’ve been to a lot of restaurants, but there are very few which make me sit back and go “wow.” It takes a unique combination of environment, service and food to knock my socks off, but when it happens I can’t help but think, “We are so coming back here again.”
We first visited Sydney’s at [...]

May 15, 2007

DNA Test that Sushi!!

We had dinner at the Sushi Train last night. While we were eating, I was thinking about an article I read recently. The Chicago Sun Times did DNA testing on red snapper at 14 different restaurants around Chicago. None of them - not one - was really red snapper. Most of them were tilapia, while [...]

May 8, 2007

Faux Red Lobster Biscuits

We have a Red Lobster just up the street from us, and we’ll go there about one a month or so with friends. The food is ok - not fantastic, and it’s your basic chain-fare - but we just love the biscuits you get before your food arrives. We call them crack-buns. Apparently they’re really [...]