Last night, to celebrate CB’s birthday we had dinner at Canoe. It was, as always, spectacular. This was our first time getting the tasting menu. It would take too long to list the full details of everything we had with all the wine pairings, but here’s the brief overview:

• our amuse bouche was shaved carrot, mushrooms, caper berries and beans and a chocolate sauce
• next up was warm goat cheese on bannock with shaved black truffle and vanilla foam & veggies on lentils
• the salad was warm lobster (which I normally don’t care for, but this was quite good) with a dill pickle tartar & lemon thyme
• the intermezzo was a pomegranate foam with olive oil and a light salt on top
• our main was a BC sablefish with a black mustard dressing. CB had the same thing with foie gras on top. The others had caribou.
• dessert was a quince bread pudding with fruit and candied almonds, paired with a 2006 Fielding Estate Select Late Harvest Gewurztraminer

It was an excellent, excellent meal. I can’t imagine Canoe ever falling off my list of favourite Toronto restaurants.

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Today’s been a busy one. We have people coming over in a couple of hours so we’ve been scrambling to get stuff ready, and to run all the errands we didn’t have time for this week. We just carried our new chairs home; of course it’s the coldest day of the year on the day when we have to be outside carrying packages…so it goes.

OK, must shower and throw together a playlist.

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