I love Poke, so I’m definitely down to try new places. Poke Wrap is more known for their Sushi Burritos, but I find the concept of those a little weird. Isn’t it just a sushi roll that is uncut?
The good thing is here you can have all the ingredients in a burrito or a bowl. I had the Alaskan bowl which had: White Tuna, Soy Sesame, Creamy Wasabi, Onions, Sesame Seeds, Spring Onions, Corn, Masago, Avocado, White Cabbage, Carrots, Nori. It came together nicely and tasted fresh.
We’ve been moving and unpacking all this week so we didn’t really have too much time planning meals and getting groceries. Thankfully, Chefs Plate helped out and the box came to our door step the day we moved in.
Yesterday I cooked a Turkey Taco Salad. All the ingredients were fresh and it was full of flavour. I loved the cilantro sour cream, as well as the spices in the turkey. Plus, it felt like I was eating healthy, in comparison to the takeout I was eating all last week.
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After the duck, we went for a walk around the Toronto waterfront.
Here’s a photo of a bunch of colourful canoes and the duck butt in the background.
We ended up with a trip to the Toronto Music Garden, which had a lot of beautiful flowers and displays:
Over the weekend, I went to Bobbie Sue’s Mac and Cheese Stand for the first time.
I ordered the Carbonara mac which had pancetta and grana padano. The pancetta gave it a saltiness and the cheese was like a parmesan from a different part of Italy. The dish was very flavouful. I only had the small portion but it was all I needed.
I’m co-promoting a show on Canada’s Day with my friend Teagan from Little Coyote. Come to the Horseshoe, it will be a blast!
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Recently, I had a work dinner at hip pizza joint, Superpoint. We did a set menu that featured something called a Pizza Party where pies kept coming.
To start, we had a fried rice ball with red sauce and cheese.
The garlic bread was heavenly, it was hard not to fill up on it.
There was a radicchio, escarole, and greens salad that had grated pecorino cheese and a light vinaigrette. We found it a tiny bit too peppery.
Their Caesar salad, however, was rather irresistible and everyone was quite a fan of the hickory sticks on top.
Their cocktail menu was extensive and this zombie-named drink had a flaming lime in it.
Our pizza party began with a Pepperoni pizza. Their pizzas had thin crusts, so it made it easier to try multiple.
The kale and mushroom pizza with white sauce provided a different flavour pallette between white sauces.
My favourite was the pie with bacon, pineapple, peppers and onions.
There was also a radicchio and gorgonzola pizza with white sauce. My photo is terrible, but the pizza was not!
Dessert was delicious fried donuts with a side of custard sauce.
I enjoyed our pizza party dinner and the back room is also a cool place to host a large group.
Tonight we happened to be in the Yonge & Eglington area looking for something to eat. Tio’s Urban Mexican looked like a cute spot so we decided to try it. We started with some chips, guac and pico de gallo. I liked that their chips were a mixture of potato and taro.
To drink I had a classic Paloma with grapefruit juice and tequila.
Nash ordered the Alambre: A popular mexican dish consisting of grilled beef topped with chopped bacon, peppers, caramelized onion jam, cheese and guacamole. It was served with crispy tostadas. I loved the sweet onion jam and the juicy steak.
I had the pork belly tacos with hoisin jus, onion jam, crispy carrot chips and orange crema. It was an interesting combination of sweet and savory.
Our food was super flavourful and we ordered the perfect amount for the two of us. It is slightly more expensive than other Mexican places but maybe that’s what the “Urban” in the name describes.
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Last night was the last concert for a while at The Silver Dollar. It’ll be closing so that they can build condos in the area. It will re-open because it has a heritage designation, but because of the closures, the people that are involved will probably not be a part of it anymore.
Thank you for all the special memories:
– It was one of my first club venues before I was even old enough to go to it. I’d volunteer for NXNE (when it was still cool).
– I stood in awkward silence beside people who are now my friends.
– I fell in love with a lot of my favourite bands there.
– I held my first blog showcases there
– I shot my first concert photos there.
– I killed my first camera there.
The venue may come back, but it’ll never be the same. #RIPSilverDollar
You have to be a very special band for me to shoot/see you 100 times and Partner is one of those bands. The whole gallery has my favourite shots of the week. View it here.
Tiana Feng 