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- Vote for CheapEats Toronto in the Canadian Blog AwardsNovember 28
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The Canadian Blog Awards are underway and we’ve been nominated! But, it’s only Round One and you can only vote once per category. So we need your support to make the Final Round.
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CheapEats Toronto has been nominated in both the Best Cultural and Entertainment AND the Best Local Blog categories
I'm delighted to see CheapEats, as well as a number of our bloggers and colleagues amongst the nominees!
- Andrea’s blog a peek inside the fishbowl has been nominated for the Best Family Blog
- My personal project blog, Mini Book Expo, has also been nominated in the Cultural/Entertainment category
- Our sister blog – CheapEats
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- Jumbo Empanadas Sign - Photo of the WeekNovember 21
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The CheapEats Photo of the Week is Jumbo Empanadas sign taken by J is for Jetsetter.
Add your own photo to the CheapEats Toronto Flickr Group and it could be our next Photo of the Week.
- Food Wine ShowNovember 21
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The Gourmet Food & Wine Expo is on this weekend at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Toronto, ON
Fri, Nov 21, 2008 - Sun, Nov 23, 2008It’s touted as Canada's premier food and wine appreciation event! Over 1200 wines, beers and spirits from around the globe, gourmet creations from some of Toronto's best restaurants, and several tasting stages featuring exciting seminars from professional sommeliers and celebrity chefs.
Tickets are $15 general admission for a one day pass. You can buy your tickets online from TicketMaster to avoid some of the lines onsite. You might still be able to get a $3 disount by clicking here
Sampling Tickets for $20 are also available online through Ticketmaster. Not sure what that gets you, but you’ll need at least $20 worth… trust me.
For more information click here www.foodandwineexpo.ca - V V List release Saturday Nov. 22/2008November 21
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Well you may or may not have noticed that there was an absent Vintages Value List coming at you two weeks ago. Rose & I started out with the best of intentions. But when we started walking over to the tasting room and the weather was so sunny and warm, we pulled a 180 and went down to the lake and gazed into the sunshine marvelling at the mild clime in NOVEMBER!!! That seems like ancient history because we shovelled our way out to get to work this morning …
Unfortunately we missed out on the Bordeaux release and we just tasted the final release for 2008 – the one before Christmas – where values are sparse as Vintages pulls out the big, pricey guns to fire off the holiday season. Don't despair – there is still plenty of great wine to be had!
We also recommend that you ask the Product Consultants in the Vintages section for recommendations in your price range, varietal or occasion. They are always happy to offer up assistance and are often aware of special releases (Rapid Releases) that come into Vintages outside of the traditional release catalogue.
This week's value picks are:
WHITE WINES
77693 Amayna Sauvignon Blanc 2006 (Chile) $20.
- Reservations 101November 15
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There's a great article by Corey Mintz, the new Toronto Star's restaurant critic, on the Toronto Star website about the business of reservations.
...the average Toronto restaurant is open for dinner between 5:30 and 10 p.m. Torontonians will not, by nature, eat before 6 unless they are going to a show, or after 10 unless they are Spanish.
With such a small window of operation, a restaurant needs to maximize that time period. Empty seats are holes in their gas tank, draining fuel. If a table is booked for 7:30, it's next to impossible to use that table earlier or later. This is called a single seating.
Corey goes on to explain and discuss that "space and time are perishable commodities" and how restaurants do their best to keep tables turning and get people in, fed and out for the next seating.
Interesting, since I just got off the phone confirming my online reservations for tomorrow's 11am brunch which had somehow gotten "lost".
