Borealia Restaurant – Toronto If you happen to be an adventurous gourmet and would like to experience among other specialties bison (pemmican) bresaola, or mussels smoked in pine needles, then ehad to this small husband and wife owned restaurant. Its 45 seats in a narrow, but long space is tastefully […]
Two devout Lebanese brothers started this restaurant enterprise in 2006 in Toronto, the largest city of Canada that attracts many Middle Eastern immigrants, and creates a demand for specialties of their hoe countries. Paramount caters mainly this market segment, but also attracts many who like to explore other cuisines. Middle […]
New restaurants fail at alarmingly high rates (80 percent) during the first two years of their existence. Most of the se bankruptcies can be attributed to poor management. Successful restaurants not only require a good chef, but also exemplary service, appropriate décor and ambience, suitable beverage selection and general intelligent […]
Today, we not only expect restaurant managers to serve us palatable food, but we want them to meet the expectations of our social conscience – impeccably ethical, environmentally responsible, and concerned about our health. Restaurant must provide food, beverages, service and an adequate environment commensurate to prices charged. Menus must […]
When Martin Kouprie and Peter Geary took over the restaurant, it was already a going concern by a chef. Kouprie changed the menu and design of the restaurant successfully. Today the 130 seat restaurant caters to business people around Bay and Bloor Streets for lunch and dinner six days a […]
Only a decade ago, very few restaurant guests would inform their servers about their allergies, ask what ingredients different dishes contained and then order requesting certain ingredients to be fully excluded. These days, such requests occur almost daily and frequently during lunch and dinner. Restaurateurs, servers, and cooks often have […]
Imagine yourself in a restaurant with a hot date. Both of you order food. The server, gently, but in a well-timed manner asks what wine you would like upon handing you the wine list. What to do? You are overwhelmed. You don’t know Merlot from Adam, or for that matter […]
A little more than a decade after global warming, gradually disappearing rain forests and endangered species ruled our collective conscience, new concerns have started to dominate our concerns: pesticides, mad cow disease, e-coli genetically modified foods, fungicides, growth hormones and food safety. In this first decade of the 21st century, […]
