photos by Madd Hattere It’s four o’clock in the morning in Montreal at a dive restaurant down the street from a student residence, where you go for the most drunken drunk food of your life. They're closed, but someone's in there, so ...Read More
Sharing in the Chicken of Knowledge Past was evidently not enough to satiate me. But it was cognitively far too much: the digestion has dislodged my primary processing and severely damaged my biological rhythms. I lay flummoxed at the side ...Read More
Let's all have a big, gratifying round of FUCK YOU MARKHAM. Oh, I knew it was too good to be true, that something revolutionary could come from the majority of minds that run Markham. A vote that was meant to ...Read More
At the Boutique | Photos brought to you by the Cheese Boutique I have said it before and I will say it again: the Cheese Boutique boasts stellar cuisine at every opportunity. A veritable cheese palace complete with ceremonial throne ...Read More
After seeing an ad posted on the TTC last month I attended the COG festival on February 20th, an organic growers conference held on Chestnut Street. I wanted to experience a gathering of the minority market in food production, a ...Read More
Sweet Shaddock | Photos by Madd Hattere The good captain Shaddock brought grapefruits to the sunny shores of Jamaica over one hundred years ago, and when Count Odet Phillippe planted the first Florida grove in 1823, he could not have foreseen ...Read More
The "B" Word | Photos by Matthew Filipowich I have always been a bit hesitant towards the word myself. I thought brunch was a typically bothersome title given to a meal that didn’t fit within the standard pre-planned three-meal mold of ...Read More
The seascape of this installment of Killin Food is ever a-changing. In the fish and chip scene in Toronto there have been some notable changes in the last few years: local Queen East favourite Wood Green has capsized permanently; Danforth ...Read More
Photo Credit: Matthew Filipowich// Finding a good, reasonably priced chunk of cow in the downtown sprawl is no simple task. A couple of bars may have specific steak nights that allow for cheaper meat, combined with pitchers of cheap beer, but ...Read More
Do you ever find that when you try to do anything productive in your house, you always just end up reading arbitrary Wikipedia pages and back-articles from Pitchfork? Does the combination of rumbling roommates, a cat that's always doing something ...Read More
A man walks into a restaurant with his family, chatting amicably and smiling in preparation of a casual meal out, until he looks over the shoulder of another restaurant patron and witnesses utter carnage to a degree that he has ...Read More
The Art in Slow Food | Photos brought to you by the Cheese Boutique Cheese is simply the most versatile food I can think of, for the inclusion or exclusion in a dish often acts as the catalyst for the entire ...Read More
Taste of the Danforth | Photos by Matthew Filipowich Expecting over one million attendees over the span of the weekend, a Taste of the Danforth has vastly exceeded its humble beginnings: starting as a mere response to Taste ...Read More
The sponsor of the Taste of the Danforth since 1997, Pilaros has been filling the demand for Mediterranean food in Canada for many years now, particularly notable as the largest importer of olive oil into North America. I was able ...Read More
There has been a continuous public outcry towards the civil workers from CUPE Local 79 and TCEU Local 416 since their collective strike put an immediate halt to several government funded services, including the weekly garbage pickup, as well as ...Read More
Taste of Little Italy | Photos by Matthew Filipowich A Taste of Little Italy: so easy to say that it rolls off the tongue, so enjoyable to taste that it rolls down the tongue and leaves me yearning for more. ...Read More
These are a few of my favourite things, all of which find their happy home inside surrealism. Surrealism is ultimately indebted to Freud, which the group [the Surrealists] credits solely for enlightening people of the unconscious mind; Surrealists love psychoanalysis, which ...Read More
Do you ever find that when you try to do anything productive in your house, you always just end up reading arbitrary Wikipedia pages and back-articles from Pitchfork? Does the combination of rumbling roommates, a cat that's always doing something ...Read More
photo/Matthew Filipowich I have undertaken, in these notes, the challenge that a vegetarian faces every day: not eating meat. I am skeptically hanging up my canines to embrace the molar action that I predominantly deem less important. Not that I am ...Read More
Convenience stores have only entered common usage relatively recently – since the 90s became the dubious decade that wholeheartedly embraced convenience, these stores have cropped up as a necessity that had never before seemed essential. According to the Canadian Government, ...Read More
ACME Burger Company A little place called ACME Burger Company exists just west of Bathurst along Bloor street, and with thoughts of Road Runner and Coyote running through my head, I look above me to check for the requisite anvil drop. ...Read More
DotA Allstars is a custom-mapped Warcraft III modification that has been around for quite some time, cited as one of the most popular non-supported game mods on the market. Dota is a strategy game such as none that I’ve ever ...Read More
Mom jokes are the longest lasting jokes from childhood I can recall; well after the “in your faces” and “I know you are, but what am Is,” people were still making fun of each other’s mom. I still remember as ...Read More
I walk down College Street, struggling against the throng of Torontonians moving briskly in the opposite direction to try and escape the cold weather. As I get within sight of Fran’s diner I only have one, pervading thought: it is ...Read More
Daft Punk are devout creatures of habit: they create all their album covers in the same motif, they’ve hosted large live tour circuits on both ends of a decade and, regularly as clockwork, have released a studio album every four ...Read More
Right on the cusp of Little Italy sits Kalendar, an Italian style restaurant that brings calming jazz and crooner music to sooth you into a mood of dining and conversation. Slothrop and I are waiting for Katje so I have ...Read More
