Whilst we are not usually ones to get all excited about private dining rooms, this one is truly a peach…
Enoteca Sociale’s brand spanking new private room is quite special, with the kicker being that they don’t charge any room fee for reserving this space!
This week we sit down for a blether with Margaret River Winemaker Stuart Pym of Suckfizzle and Stella Bella fame…
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Iacopo Lenci is the Brewmaster/Owner of the cult Tuscan brewery of Bruton. He also happens to be the son of acclaimed Winemaker Agostino Lenci of Fattoria di Magliano fame! One has to understand that Iacopo Lenci is certainly not your common-or-garden Brewer.
HE was recently in town to meet with the cream of Toronto’s beer writers at Kensington Market’s wonderful Burger Bar.
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Just this afternoon Chef René Redzepi of Copenhagen’s famed Noma restaurant was in town to launch his book Noma: A Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine. He sat down with Alison Fryer of Toronto’s Cookbook Store to discuss his personal cooking philosophy and how he executes this in his restaurant. For those of you who did not have the chance to attend here is a little snippet of what you missed… most inspiring!
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I have to be quite honest here… my inherently inquisitive mind has always wondered just what goes on at one of these Penfolds “Recorking Clinics” I almost imagined it to be akin to some kind of secret Grange-loving cabal’s ritualistic get-together… which in a way it was I suppose, but oh so much more… At these sessions Penfolds offer a unique service to owners of their wines… and it is all free of charge.
When Penfolds rolled into town just the other week I took along an older bottle of Penfolds Kalimna Bin 28 for appraisal by Penfolds Chief Winemaker (and friend of Good Food Revolution) Peter Gago, and filmed what I found to be a fascinating process…
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