Tasting Menu

by Charles Yu 22 days ago

This tormenting Covid period has so far significantly disrupted normal dine-in restaurant operations here in Ontario. For an avaricious foodie like me, to overcome the occasional ‘good-food depriva...

We’re taking my parents-in-law to Las Vegas for a no-holds-barred 50th anniversary extravaganza next year (knock on wood) and one thing we want to do is arrange a tasting menu experience for them. ...

I wanna make a vegetarian tasting menu for 4 people soon and im wondering if anyone has suggestions. All of us are family and live together so it will definitely be very safe. I think lots of small...

by Charles Yu 2 months ago

Year after year, for the past couple of decades, my foodie brother-in-law and I have been holding an annual ritual around this time….a joint ‘men-only‘ birthday bash. Venues for this event all pos...

I've experienced tasting menus in restaurants but wanted to try it at home with friends and family over the holidays. Has anyone tried doing this? Did you prepare each course individually or did y...

by Charles Yu 12 months ago

These days, when eating out and taking in certain fine-dining experiences, it would be hard pressed NOT to encounter cooking that had been infused with some form of fusion approach. Culinary landsc...

My husband and I are coming up to Manhattan this weekend and would love an excellent, inventive tasting menu in a casual atmosphere. No jackets, no crystal. Perhaps more funky than fancy. Does such...

My wife and I are traveling to Piedmonte in May and plan to check out some of the restaurants highly recommended here (Il Centro, Osteria Veglio, La Ciau, Guido, etc.). We plan to do the tasting me...

Has anyone recently tried the tasting menu at Spago Beverly Hills? I saw the DineLA menu on their website and thought that would be a better choice than the California Tasting Menu which looks huge...

by Charles Yu 2 years ago

In order to secure a table at this ‘super desirable‘ culinary destination on a weekend, one would require a three months advance booking and abiding to a time slot assigned by the restaurant. The l...

by Charles Yu 1 year ago

In a culinary desert that is Thornhill, places that offer slightly more sophisticated fine dining are practically non-existence. As such, when a new kid on the block appeared out of this void, it i...

by Charles Yu 1 year ago

My wife and I will be making a couple of days stop over in Miami before flying on to Cancun to attend a family member's destination wedding. We'll be staying in South Beach. Questions: 1) To us o...

by Charles Yu 2 years ago

I tried following ex-hound skylineR33 footstep by attempting to make a reservation at this latest hot table in the Niagara wine region. The 'earliest' table available for dining on a weekend is mor...

by elvisahmed 1 year ago

An update is long overdue as even though I have been coming here back and forth I never got to try the chef's menu. Some cases it was the dietary restrictions of the friends and sometime it was the...

by Melanie Wong 1 year ago

"Everything could use a little Kewpie, and to prove it we’re taking our products on the road in our new Taste Truck! Find us in and around San Francisco from now until June 26th and don’t forget to...

I want to do the unthinkable and actually get a babysitter and take my wife out for her birthday. Any ideas for the most interesting culinary place around Sacramento? Saw that Localis appears i...

I have an extra set of tickets to the upcoming Game of Thrones menu - they are for Thursday 5/9 at 6:30 pm. I was rushing to get some because it was selling out so fast but it turns out that the da...

by Charles Yu 1 year ago

Sigh!! This luncheon was supposed to be one of the most anticipated meal and highlight of my trip. But sadly, due to unexpected and disappointing developments that surfaced during the course of ou...