Year: 2008

General Aug 16, 2008 The Waffle No Comments Its hard to eat well when you work on a by-election, away from home. It’s also hard to keep a blog updated. At any rate, here is what my first week looked like – Monday, August 11 2008: Lunch: I reviewed my visit at the Terrazza Trattorria & Case da Carlo here. Dinner: I wanted to get an an update on Westmount-Ville Marie, so I went with Jerry to the Bâton Rouge near the Bell Centre, in the old Moe’s Deli building.  We shared a Louisiana Spinach Dip before I digged in a grilled sirloin salad.    The dip was warm and creamy and came with sides of salsa and sour cream.  There was tons of chips, tons of dip, its a good think we shared.  As for the salad, it was made of mixed greens, grilled zucchini and roasted red pepper. The 7 oz sirloin…

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Restaurant Aug 10, 2008 The Waffle 3 Comments Is there anything like a nice cold treat during a hot summer day? After a long road trip back from Marmora, Melissa forced me to stop at the Dairy Queen in Carleton Place.  I hadn’t been to Dairy Queen in a few years.  It seems that as I grow older, my sweet tooth is abandonning me.  At any rate, I obliged and decided to plunge for an interesting treat if I was to indulge.  Melissa decided to go for a classic DQ Sundae. Topped with hot fudge. But I figured that The Waffle couldn’t do otherwise but order a Fudge Brownie Temptation Waffle Bowl Sundae. That’s right.  A delicious combination of vanilla soft ice cream serve nestled in a freshly baked chocolate-enrobed waffle bowl covered with brownie bits and topped with hot fudge. Well, so they say.   The vanilla soft serve is not…

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Restaurant Aug 7, 2008 The Waffle No Comments I discovered Wild Wing the weekend after The Ottawa Citizen’s Rod Eade published an article about the new Canadian specialized restaurant chain. I have got to admit that I was really really (really!) excited about this place and I simply could not wait to go. So I went. Imagine, 101 kinds of wings!!! I have got to have them all!!!! I’ll report back, but meanwhile, you can have a look at my Top 20 Wild Wing Countdown. Wild Wing claims to be the fastest growing family restaurant franchise in Ontario. It was founded in 1999 in Sunderland (although their headquarters are in Keswick) and there are 36 different locations across Ontario, with 31 more opening soon, all in Ontario. And for the small sum of $440 000, you too be a member of the Wild Wing familly and own your very own…

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Restaurant Aug 3, 2008 The Waffle 6 Comments After too many days of eating civilized food at the cottage, I was in dire need of something old fashioned.  I convinced my fellow cottagers to stop at the Dixie Lee in Barry’s Bay for some good old fashioned fried chicken. Boasting to have the “best chicken in town”, what else could we do in this town of 1100 souls of the Madwaska Valley?  You could support the establishment of the Janusz Żurakowski’s Museum, but that we would still leave you with an empty stomach.  So Dixie Lee it had to be.  And I didn’t have, in all fairness, much convincing to do.The first Dixie Lee opened in Belleville in 1964 and is the original of a chain now counting over 80 restaurants in Canada, the United States, Dubaï and Ukraine.  The international headquarters are now in Napanee, Ontario.  Really. The Dixie Lee in Barry’s…

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