La Concha restaurant, Mazatlan

Our go to breakfast place. The El Cid all inclusive food package offers at least a dozen different restaurant options. But this is our favourite.

Trip Advisor ranks it #20 of 329 Restaurants in Maz.

la-concha-restaurante

Spoon & Fork restaurant, Toronto

I highly recommend this chain of restaurants. Japanese, Sushi, Thai & Asian. All you can eat ordered a la carte.

‘All You Can Taste Menu’ lets you choose from an assortment of food items for one price.

Trip Advisor

spoon-and-fork

back to Bin 555?

Once again we organized a blind taste test of some of our favourite inexpensive red wines.

Three of the four of us had been YUGE Bin 555 fans for many years. I’d recently switched to Vielle Ferme after a blind taste comparison. Then to Copper Moon last week after another blind comparison.

Copper Moon has been on sale for C$8.88 a bottle recently! 🙂

3-wines

But in our most recent show down, it was Bin 555 that won once again.

As non-discriminating as I am, all three are pretty close. Most likely I’ll buy the least expensive of these on any given day.

Dosa and Uthappam

My favourite two south Indian dishes are not all that easy to find in Canada.

Happily Shiv Bhavan Indian Restaurant opened a block away from my brother’s place in Glamorgan, Calgary. My old neighbourhood.

I ordered both my first meal there. To compare.

Dosa
Dosa

I’m not sure. Dosa is more impressive to look at. Uthappam tastier.

I’ll have to keep ordering both.

… bring you, the most authentic Indian food by recipes straight from the roots of south Indian villages. We call ourselves the “village” cuisine. Back in Indian villages, the food is made with ingredients that are made fresh from ground up. No artificial pre-packaged ingredients, no food color, no MSG …