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his crime novels is great

what about justin

coming soon mr. fromage! stay tuned

that is my plan! it will be like a free guidebook made by the best reviewers - montrealers!

daou i have been to many many times, i find the food very good especially the grilled fish. lacking is the hummous and other spreads and salads, even the rice is not great. rumi i had one mediocre meal but i like the atmosphere jerusalem i go to all the time it is next to CAPLAN DUVAL where i go to get stuff for cooking. the falafel there is homemade but the texture is not there. they have excellent salads al mostafa i will check out, i can eat schawarma each day no problem!

a great sitcky thread would be BEST OF MONTREAL like BEST PIZZA, BEST INDIAN each person can submit a vote and the most **** for the top 3 gets ranked

ok thanks i will check out this place

carswell - please tell me the best lebanese food i did not yet found one. i ate at ALEP (syrian mountain food) near MJT it was quite good, not greAt but i hope to try it again soon to confirm. i have a real problem finding a good falafel with the right texture, i like the homemade style with crunchy outside and softer but chewy insides like in israel

continuing this thread here since it is not really aproppriate there -- yes I live in Montreal sensorial why would you doubt this and i do not hang out in westmount i live in the plateau you are apparently a world-class traveler so please tell me all these great places that are as good as your travels. i am searching specifically for goat roti so i would love to hear that. falafel? this i also have see to believe. pho no doubt is popular here but i dont care for it so i have no knowledge. tell me great sushi, yakitori, gyoza, korean,iranian. if it exist i will be very happy man. i am not arguing that the food may be OK by local standards for sure even basha has good lebanese food by some stndard - it is not GREAT with a big population of immigrants here it should be GREAT. we have a lot of moroccan here but is there great moroccan food? please do not say EL MOROCCO.

sensorial, i dont want to turn this into a forum about montreal, maybe we should take this elsewhere. this forum was originally about lobsters! sorry friends for the distraction! going back to the montreal forum! thank you ruth!

Ruth, you are making a good point. from the viewpoint of food and tourism, my answer is no you do not need to have great ethnics food to be great. to this point, montreal is a+ with our local stars like lesley said. we have some great quebec farmers and seafood and meats, no doubt i will not complaint here. also even though quebec wines are not really good, i think that we have some ice apple ciders that is really amazing better than ontario ice wines - this is a local treasure. but as a resident you cannot live on that alone. i need ethnic foods! for this i will say that montreal is not good. if you think NYC is not good for all those categoris you list, then please do not try the same here! the ethnic question makes so sense here because we are a true melting pot. arabs, north africans, italian, irish, french, african, camdodia, vietnam, korea, china all the provinces, taiwan, hong kong. so big ethnic population but the food is wishy-washy. makes no sense. i hope it will change. LA is the greatest food city in the USA to me, there is no comparaison for ethnic foods with anywhere else especially if you like latin american. LA is also one of the best city in the world for STREET FOOD! anyway i cant wait to see your GOURMET article about our fine city and to celebrate its treasures again

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johnl - i have issue 161 with the australia reviews. in fact i just finish reading it. sorry my english is not good so sometime my point is not clear maybe blockbuster is not a good term but grange is a big big wine. maybe not in comparison to recent monsters but taste older vintages next to old vintage of bordeaux or rhone and it show very big. yes with age it becomes more like a bordeaux but never a delictate bordeaux always a big one like 1961 1980,1982, 1990 bordeaux. for torbreck the high-score points for parker and halliday for run rig and factor - these are bgi wines. again not maybe compared to some monsters from dan phillips and ringland but in a lineup you can see which one is big monster from down under! to clarify - i enjoy all these wines as long as are a bit aged. i read jancis (mainly for french wines and to help with my english understanding!), halliday (i like his wine tour guide and was so useful to me when i live in australia for 1 month), and parker (less for review more because i like his style - as a cowboy seeking the truth!). for the other regions, i am not saying he does not like/know/review those regions - it is a fulltime job for a person to focus on one region of one country! see how many people complain how late he is with review of other regions. not because he is lazy but of course he is busy. parker is also a great voice for burgundy no doubt but in time pierre will have more time and efforts to focus on this great region. the many voices now at the wine advocate is a great thing i hope to see more. i did not yet get the great wine estate book i hope santa will bring it for me carswell, it is a joke to mention phaneuf (for you people - he is a local wine reviewer) in the same breath as parker. this is like speaking of fellini or bergman in the same sentence as a local village man that video weddings. where is your basis that parker is afraid of distributors and producers?au contraire mon ami! he is to expose the frauds in this industry and there are many many of them. can you imagine his opinion of the SAQ (local monopole). why would he review a bad wine? to take space from a good wine? which idiot would put a bad parker score on his bottle? why dont the consumer look at the good wine review as a guide of which producer and vintage is good why do he need a bad review. you are very angry at parker i dont know why. as for your friend who quit the newspaper because he didnt like the pressure commercial, maybe he should go join le parkair and work with him since that is part of the manifesto of parker - no pressure from commerce! like johnl said if you dont agree with parker or do not like him as a man then feel free to read other reviewers. just respect his works. johnl remember that for jancis and halliday they have only a very small percent of the voice of the wine reviewers even if you consider that they are both excellent voices. for whichever reason they have a problem with parker. he does not effect them in any way except to take a piece of their market. they are always attempting to gain more viewers by being controversial but i think this is SO BAD for their image and respect for their works. makes it like a tabloid magazine. best to keep the focus on what is in the glass than who said what and who is bad and who is good

a great review of Uigur in Chinatown in today's Mirror. LOTS OF MUTTON on the menus. also some price cuts. sounds great i keep trying to check it out but forget it

hello nimzo maybe jancis does not like the same wines but parker and halliday have some faves in commons. this includes some monster wines from aussie such as torbreck and some others. parker is not tending towards fruit driven wines in aussie - they have always made them there! in fact even with no help from the winemaker due to the hot climate the wines there will always be blockbusters. see grange from 50 years ago, same story i also enjoy some wines from cooler regions but parker has no issue with these wines unless they are thin and watery. also in time we are seeeing parker delegate authrotiy for some regions to others (burgundy, germany, italy) who have more appreciation i think for those regions.

here also the food section of the local paper is really the best (only) good thing in the whole week! I am speaking of the MONTREAL GAZETTE the only english daily local in a francophone city we are lucky in such a small city to have 2 food writer, one for cheap foods one for fine dining. they i believe are both freelancer but are regular contributors and do a good job to expose the city resto scene. also both participate here on EGULLET so international viewer can have a taste of montreal there are some issues like the paper cannot afford to pay for the resto meals since there is no budget so the reviewer can only go one time realistically per review since they pay themselves.the one visit might seem a problem but here we have a lot of restos to be reviewed and limited resource so it is maybe beter to spend the $ reviewing more restos than having many visits to equal one review lesley, the fine dining reviewr, also have a column for market fresh delicacies and also local food events, which we have a lot! we also have a wine writer but we will not speak of him... a great idea from our paper is they put the food section on saturday so that in a touristic city like here, a visitor will see the food scene in the paper on his visit. this is very important for the tourism industry here, you can ask any restauranteur. this should be standard for touristic cities this is just the english paper! we also have two french papers each with food sections. i will not speak of them since i dont read them.

having been a art director for many years i have to say that you and your teams did an amazing facelift for gourmet you made it relevan to a new generation through style and substance and for sure did not scare away the old generation with your honest yet beautiful photography bravo!

just my opinion Sensorial, since i was born here, lived here during the high time of montreal, left during the low times to travel the world, and now came back during supposedly the greatest period of montreal restos tp see that the food scene here is better than ever but certainly not world class and representing our huge ethnic communities! i am the first person to promote montreal as a destination for tourists, summer or wintertime, it is really one of a kind place to come for us locals that live here, another story altogether i love this city my home town but if you know of some secret great cambodian, turkish, sushi, sizchuan, bbq, pizza, tex mex, authentic mexican, chicken wings, indian, malaysian, israeli, pakistani, iranian, i coul go on forever, please let me know even lesley says in her column that this is an uninspired time for montreal right now. this is a great city and it will come back again i know it maybe thanks to the support from all the recent good things written about it also it is important for the sake of ethics to come clean that you are involved with the production of the Anthony Bourdain television show and maybe other commercial interests as well...? it is customary on this board to announce such things before promoting ones own interests

when is the show going to air on travel network? is it going to come to a channel in canada as well?

very sad to see a nice lady like janice turn into such an old gossip in the end it come down to power and professional jealousy i say be more like parker and live and let live there are so many wines we can each have a favorite and never share the same favorite with each other but all share a glass and share the same sense of fun and camaraderie let us also not forget that Le Parkair is a gentleman and RARELY reviews a bad wine (under 80 points). in fact i cant think i ever saw one. there are so many wines out there who has time for bad ones?! this is why i like the WINE ADVOCATE even though we cannot have mostof the wines here in quebec

depends on the location. rent a room in a resto and you are ok or anywhere that have a permit already

miss robinson very obviously edited the speech to only contain the points that are relevant to hers and hallidays arguments against parker and kramer... everyone know that jancis and halliday have bones to pick with parker and his huge successes the full text is here: PDF FILE more funny is how he puts his foot in mouth about kramer everyone knows the aussie wine shows are old boys clubs, and are rigged. read even halliydays own comments about this how the chairman tells the judges how to judge. kramer is maybe wrong that the big wine company control the votes, instead it is the wineries themselves that do it, big or small! le parkair is one man with one pallette, as is halliday if they disagree, who cares i just wish people would stop attacking parker

but is it as good?

thansk but i did not know that this was a book, i will look for it thankyou

aaahh yes you are correct, no truffles. just mashed potatoes or really butter with potatoe sprinkles what is LM&LPSDLPDT