food log: Tuesday, June 22

Grilled cheese, Diet Coke from Pasta Café - $4.20

Burger, potatoes, cole slaw from the bistro - $6

I skipped dessert. It had coffee in it. AGAIN.
Cherries from the bistro - free

I went to a lovely cocktail for the launch of Restaurant Biron's new Summer menu.
Sangria

Tomatoes with truffle oil and Parmesan

Iceberg lettuce with panko

Oyster shooter

A refreshing fruity shooter 

Mackerel rolls

Kobe beef tongue and calamari

Mini kobe burgers


And another mini kobe beef burger

I blame my shirt.
Sweetbreads with kimchee

Truffles


Coconut-tea macarons


and another sweet, fruity nibble


And a couple of glasses of wine. (No pics)


Money spent on food today: $10.20

food log: Monday, June 21

Cheese toasts, yogurt, oj from the bistro

Diet Coke - $1.25

Tilapia, mango-corn salsa, veggies, salad, rice, cake, lemonade from the bistro - $6

Brown rice crackers

Cashews

Salad: poached eggs, asparagus, potatoes, radishes

Strawberries and cream


Money spent on food: $7.25

Food log: Sunday, June 20

I met the lovely Lindsay for a delicious brunch at Griffintown café. She even treated me!

Bloddy caesar with pickled okra

Crab cake with bacon and friend egg

Diet Coke (no pic)

We had a nice walk under the rain and stopped at Atwater Market for somme summer goodies - $18 (not including flowers)

That's strawberries, cherries, hot peppers, asparagus and radishes.
Summer salad: lobster, asparagus, radishes, potatoes with garlic-lemon dressing

Fresh strawberries with cream



Money spent on food today: $18

food log: Saturday, June 19

OJ

Peanut butter sammich, soda

Vegetable cocktail, chips

Spaghetti with meat sauce

Ice cream sandwich



Money spent on food today: 0

food log: Friday, June 18

PB on toast, OJ

Merguez, baked pasta, tomato salad, bread, cherry cake, lemonade from the bistro - $6

I am still in love with the family-style serving.

Diet Coke - $1.25

For dinner, I joined my tweeter girls for an unforgettable night at Auberge Le Saint-Gabriel. Eric Gonzalez is a master chef! And the terrasse is so amazingly relaxing, it's a perfect spot to enjoy a lazy Montreal evening.


Bubbly

A taste of Katerine's fruit juice cocktail

With the amuse and appetizer, we enjoyed a lovely chardonnay (no pic)

Arancini

Golden dark chocolate sphere filled with a foie gras mousse of sort. Amazingly original.

HUGE platter of mixed seafood for one, including razor clam, oyster, fried calamari, snow crab, a scallop and a giant scampi. (sorry about the shaky pics, it was dark and romanticaly lit in there and I tried my best)

With the entrée, we had a bottle of Aquinas Pinot Noir. 

I have to share that we let our waiter Fred decide on the wine all evening long, and his choices were spot-on.

Sweetbreads, peas, pea purée, cromesquis

Pre-dessert: a refreshing shooter filled with a fresh raspberry, vodka, a jelly cube of sort and fruity liquid


I am not very good at describing how delicate and aromatic this was. Summer in a shooter glass.
Mixed dessert plate : lots of good stuff including butter cookies with jam, molten chocolate cake, caramelized bananas, coffee-chocolate lollipops with Bailey's, rapsberry and verbena creams, and some crunchy- caramely sweet thing.


Vin gris

Dinner for one including alcohol and tip was $134.33. And worth every penny.

Money spent on food today: $141.58