L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, a Michelin one-star restaurant at MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, now offers a $39 pre-theatre express menu, available daily until 6:45 p.m. Changed weekly, the special menu focuses on French bistro-style fare - appetizer, main course and dessert, served simultaneously, in a bento box. Entrées, for example, offer the likes of caramelized beef short ribs with confit onion and … Read More about Deep Dish: The Latest Restaurant News
I’m in a hip restaurant in downtown Toronto. The server sets down my appetizer, a puck-shaped construction layering rich avocado, sweet tomato and bracing red onion freshened with lemon and lime juice and fragrant coriander. On top, sweet minced crab and tangy crème fraiche; on the side, a pool of brightly flavoured red-pepper coulis. Is this a Jamie Kennedy or Mark McEwan restaurant? No, it's … Read More about Delicious Lessons at George Brown’s Chefs’ House
I have dined in total darkness - and survived. When I first enter the pitch-black dining room, however, feelings of disorientation and claustrophobia overwhelm me. "I can't do this," I think to myself. But after a few minutes, the mild panic passes and I embrace the dark. This fun 'n' fascinating dinner unfolded at the Toronto location of Montreal's O.Noir restaurant, launched June 24 in the … Read More about My Dinner-in-the-Dark at O.Noir
Le Saint-Amour – When you want a grande-luxe Quebec City splurge, this is the place. Jean-Luc Boulay’s cuisine – refined, imaginative, rooted in French tradition – tastes even better in the soaring, glass-enclosed garden room. Private and semi-private rooms available as business meeting venues. Aux Anciens Canadiens – This thoroughly homey restaurant is housed in an ancestral home dating from … Read More about Top Ten Quebec City Food Faves
Lucien - Scot Woods’ inventively modern takes on classic cuisine, coupled with a suavely professional front-of-house team led by Simon Bower, makes for a seamlessly enjoyable restaurant experience. Semi-private room available as a business meeting venue. Hashimoto - A family affair (dad cooks, mom and son serve) unfolds in a sparely decorated, Zen-tranquil, 10-seat room. Multi-course Japanese … Read More about Top Ten Toronto Restaurant Meals 2008/09
June 11, 2009 In another sign of the credit crunch's ongoing effects on the meetings and incentive travel industry, the massive Fontainebleau resort-casino-condo project in Las Vegas has sought Chapter 11 protection from creditors. In the case of the $3-billion Fountainebleau business-meeting-venue project, it was the Lehman Bros. bankruptcy that led to problems financing the resort, casino and … Read More about Near-Complete Fontainebleau Las Vegas Files for Bankruptcy
Newsflash: Scaramouche has negotiated a lease extension, until the end of 2010, at its classy space in One Benvenuto Place. Even better news: Chef Scott Hildebrandt and his kitchen are firing on all cylinders. In fact, my two recent pasta-bar meals were the best I've had in 20-plus years of dining at the intimate, airy room overlooking downtown. Starters rock. A nightly soup, navy bean, comes … Read More about Scaramouche Fires on all Cylinders
