Bayou Brazil

Hello everyone,Another snow storm…I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!!! Freaking 45 min in the bus this morning instead of 15 min…arrgghhh. Ok, thanks for letting me rant.So last Feb 5th we closed of the Carnival, or Mardi Gras, at a Brazilian restaurant on...

Salon Mogador and Congrats!

Firstly, I would like to congratulate our two new Cheap Ethnic Eatz assistants: Gus and Sharon. Be nice to them until they are properly whipped into shape ;-P Thanks a gain you two for the much needed helping hand.Well our first dinner event of the year was a...

Le Figaro

A quickie post:Want to experience a true typical French little Bistro? Try Le Figaro. Its not far from where I work and I had lunch there with a friend. We had the lunch table d’hôte:A soup with lovely warm breadBavette de boeuf with nice rice, fresh...

Scarolies leading me to thoughts of Italy

Our last trip to an Italian restaurant made me, as usual, go down memory lane. I was lucky enough to go to Italy 11 years ago. Well I did about 9 countries in that trip but Italy was one of my favorites. One of our members went for 2 months this past summer.If you...

Christmas at Alpenhaus

Thank you for all that came to celebrate our Christmas dinner this past Saturday at the Swiss restaurant, the Alpenhaus. We were a great group of 29 sticking our fondue forks in the fondue dish. I think we would all agree that the owners went all out to recreate a...

Mystery Dinner: where did we go?

Ok, first off I want to say that this type of mystery dinner will happen once in a while for sure because it was a TOTAL SUCCESS. We had a blast and the night was full of surprises, even for me. I actually managed to shut my occasional big mouth the whole time and let...