Summerlicious

Okay, so Summerlicious is upon us. Reservations started a week ago, and the festival runs from the 6th to the 22nd of July, and I’m busy from the 7th to the 17th. Geoff will be back from Churchill before I am back from my vacation, so the 18th to the 22nd is good for us. As usual, Ray is going with multiple groups, one of which is going to Canoe so we don’t have to go there, unless we wanted to.

Here’s the site: http://www.toronto.com/summerlicious

::edit:: - Here's the microsoft document I have for the meals, with all the menus and some of my comments, from my top 20 list. This might or might not make it easier to look at and compare the restaurants: Summerlicious MSWord Document ::/end edit::

So I spent a few days looking at the restaurants with $35 dinners, since that’s what Ray would’ve wanted :P I guess if I felt like it, I could look at $15 lunches too, but that comes later. First, I think we’d rather have some fine dinners over some upgraded regular dinners (I wrote about this in a previous blog update about Winterlicious; long story short, paying $15 for lunch is paying price of Hamburger+1 to get Hamburger+2; paying $35 for dinner is paying price of Crème Brulee-2 to get Crème Brulee; one is a discount for fine food, the other is a premium for upgraded regular food)…

ANYWAY, so I’ve looked at maybe 60 restaurants with $35 dinners, and I’ve chosen about 21 of them which have some sort of uniqueness in their menu, or the restaurant is super-well known. I haven’t looked at ambience or location or prettiness of restaurant yet, just the menu.

The problem is that most menus are the same, so for those ones, it’s hard to choose which one is better. Most entrees consist of choices between a fish, a steak, a chicken, and/or a vegetarian pasta, and those ones are hard to judge. So in my list of 20, there are a couple of those, but most of mine have more unique or more different menus.

In my 20, there’s a few famous ones, like Canoe, Truffles, and Rosewater Supper Club. Acqua and La Maquette made it into my 20, but it’s fairly unlikely we’ll be going back to those. Other top choices in my 20 are Flow, Monsoon, Zucca Trattoria, and Bloom.

I guess we won’t discuss much of the other parts of the top 20, but for those curious, they were Richlee, Trapper's, Sequel, Jump Café, Fat Cat Bistro, Celestin, Cataplana, Auberge du Pommier, Bistro 990, Bier Markt, Katsura, and Romagna Mia (Bier, Katsura, and Romagna were the lowest on my list).

If anyone wants to do a cheap weekday lunch, let me know… I can probably take an afternoon off work for that, heehee.

Anyway, I think we should pick 1 restaurant from the famous/past ones (Canoe, Truffles, RSC, Acqua, La Maquette) and one from my other top 4 maybe (Flow, Monsoon, Zucca Trattoria, Bloom).

Anyway, now what to do with this page… I could list all the menus, but that just takes up a lot of room, and you can just find the menus yourself, yes? Hmm… what to do… sentence… over?


Apple, Almond, Arugula Salad: Baby arugula, roasted slivered almonds tossed and tart Granny Smith apples tossed in a Salsero vinaigrette, or
Fried Chili Calamari: chili garlic crusted calamari, crisp diakon + cucumber salad, mango pickle and caramelized soy drizzle, or
Drunken Pappardelle (extremely spicy): seared veal and chicken dumplings, tat soi, Napa cabbage & Thai basil in a concentrated spiced kaffir lime broth

Sea Bream: pan seared bream with new potato and fennel salad, seared scallop + honey mushroom and kaffir lime-ginger water

Forbidden Parfait: Polynesian style forbidden dessert with pineapple + macerated coconut + sweet bean puree topped with Tahitian granita and clotted cream

I don’t know, I think I just want Forbidden dessert :) Anyway, Anyway, if you’re interested, post a comment, and look at the menus, and let me know… we should probably make reservations soon. Sentence Over!

2.5 new SSB Terms!

After millions of SSB (Super Smash Bros) matches and dozens and dozens of Smash terms, 2 or 3 new terms have recently come up! Two by Jia, and half by myself and Hawk:

Reverse-V: Reverse-V is a move by Captain Falcon and it is done on Peach's Castle, or whatever that stage is with the bumper and triangles. It happens when Falcon does a Falcon Dive in such a way such that, after leaving the dive, the opponent's body goes diagonally up into the bottom of the triangle, and then bounces so that they go diagonally downwards away from the stage.

Artificial Triangle: Artificial Triangle, I think, is done exclusively by Monkey. Similarly to Reverse-V, in this move, the Monkey grabs the opponent and picks them up, ready for a forward throw. Then the Monkey jumps and throws the opponent such that, like Reverse-V, the opponent goes diagonally up, hits the bottom of the triangle, and is sent diagonally downwards away from the stage.

Lastly, the half term is not a term, but instead might be an inside joke, or something you'll hear us saying from time to time. I was Monkey in a 4-player game, in which one of the opponents was Ness, and I told everyone that I would get 7 kills this game. I end up getting 6 kills, and then I say, "If only I killed that child..." - and Isaque suggested it would be funny if you were walking down the street or in the mall, and as people pass you, you would loudly say "If only I killed that child..." ...