Posts by TheButler

Quote:Originally Posted by fwiffo Bent was decorated by the mother - I forget her name - apparently she's well known. Aren't the walls full of creepy kids pictures from school?Yes, the halls and stairwell downstairs to the...

Probably a little late for this but I went to Bent before the holidays. Susur Lee is back in town at least temporarily. The place is run by his two sons and I guess he has been helping out in the kitchen. Rather than pick a la carte we...

Managed to swing by Momofuku Shoto this week. The architecture of that entire building - the glass cube beside the Shangri La - is impressive. You walk in at street level to the noodle bar, a soaring open space as the 2nd floor above it...

Three floors. Casual - presumably your hated noodle bar. An actual bar. And the main restaurant, some incarnation of the 2-3 hour tasting menu experience that tomgirl refers to; the real reason for caring.

Quote:Originally Posted by melwoesblvd because it's something from "new york", age old trick, has always worked on us naive canadiansMeh, condescension. It's hardly going out on a limb to suggest that a successful chef has a...

Looking forward to this opening by the Shangri La http://www.torontolife.com/daily/daily-dish/rumours-rumblings/2012/08/14/momofuku-toronto-kitchen/ although will probably be stupidly busy for the first 6 months.

Are they actually dry-cleaning your shirts or laundering them? Usually you bring a cotton shirt to a cleaner it gets laundered unless you ask for something different or it has a dry-clean-only tag.

Quote:Originally Posted by Achilles_ I think that the general consensus is that light colored ties are hard to pull off no matter what. I could be wrong...I've generally tried to avoid having the shirt darker than the tie. Light...

Quote:Originally Posted by pocketsquareguy It is good to see they give HRH a nametag. Because, you know, there might be people at the Royal Ascot who wouldn't recognize him. I do like that PS with that grey though.

I do like the company description: "Our founder, Andrea Nadel, has been drawn to food from a young age." For some reason we must be cut from the same cloth. I, too, was drawn to food from a young age. My mother says I used to cry if I...