The Ladies Who Lunch (Part 2)

[Shelby]

I don't remember the last time I went out to eat.  It's been over a year or more I'm sure.  

 

I.Want.Calamari.  

[Anna N]

I am a little slow posting this week. On Wednesday Kerry and I thought we would like to eat at a new Persian restaurant in the Village Square in Burlington. It was past their posted opening time and there appeared to be some activities going on inside. But it was a freezing cold day and we were not prepared to wait in the cold until they opened the doors. Hence we ended up paying a repeat visit to Mikado.

Kirin for me

Ginger tea for Kerry

Miso soup and salad

Calamari

Korean dolsot bibimbap for Kerry

Tendon for me

And the always delightful sweet bite. One dish, two tiny forks and a snow white, icy cold portion of apple.

[Anna N]

I think we are doing a little too much lunching! I am blaming it on the basement clean out. On Monday we ate at the Royal Tandoor restaurant (www.royaltandoor.com) in Burlington.

Chai tea for Kerry. I just had water this time.

Onion bhaji

Amazingly tender naan.

Haryali chicken served on a sizzle platter and still steaming

Lamb korma

Basmati rice

[Anna N]

Today yet another trip to the basement for another load of stuff that needed to be placed elsewhere and of course we needed to refuel. This time we returned to a Thai restaurant the name of which completely escapes me.

No photos but Kerry had ginger tea and I had Thai iced coffee.

We ordered an appetizer plate for two:

It arrived as you may notice with only one shrimp. It is hard to share one shrimp so when the server returned with another dish Kerry pointed out this dreadful error on the part of the kitchen!

It was quickly rectified and peace reigned once more.

Kerry had coconut soup

And I had a beef salad.

[Darienne]

Onion bahji.  My very favorite.  No Indian food in Moab, Utah, unless I make it.

[Okanagancook]

Another great looking Naan!!!!!  You're killing me Anna.  Must have been heaven dipping the naan in the lamb korma.  Delicious.

[Dejah]

Hoping the warmer temps will return so I can get out to try making naan again in the Big Easy...Miss my naan..................

[rotuts]

"""   too much lunching  """

 

doubt thats possible.

[Anna N]

Today we had our last lunch before Christmas. We had business to conduct in Toronto so we found our way to Pho Phuong (1603 Dundas St., West, Toronto). I should have taken a take-out menu as this place does not have a web presence but I will try my best to tell you what we enjoyed.

Kerry had Chinese tea of course and I enjoyed a beer (Tsing Tao).

We shared a crispy pancake (bahn xeo)

And a Vietnamese noodle salad (bùn)

A rather restrained lunch for these two ladies!

[Shelby]

Oh this looks so good.  I'm craving any and ALL types of Asian food......probably due to Christmas food overload.  

[Deryn]

Me too, Shelby. I live where there is nowhere to go to satisfy those cravings either - so I have to make my own and while it can be tasty, it is never as beautifully presented (when served for one) as it is in the pictures that Anna and Kerry take. I live vicariously though these lunch lady chronicles and I am so thankful they seem to like the same kind of foods I do (and no one can see me drooling as I look at the pictures).

[Darienne]

Deryn and Shelby, I think you both have a lot of company on this thread.  If we want Asian food...we make it ourselves. 

[Shelby]

Yep, at least I'm not alone....I have to make my own too.  Which, I'm thinking of doing for NYE.......

[Okanagancook]

We also have to make our own asian food.  Pot stickers are our favourites.  Just learned to use the waffle maker to cook our green onion cakes....brilliant (from Will it Waffle?)

My brother always makes Peking duck for Xmas.  

[Anna N]

After taking care of a few errands in temperatures that hit 20 below we headed for the warmth of Sakai where the sushi chefs call out a welcome as you open the door.

Salad

Miso soup (hot and welcome!)

Takoyaki (for rotuts).

For Kerry the Wednesday lunch special. Korean bulgogi and Japanese tempura

For me chicken katsu.

[Anna N]

Hard to believe it could have been even colder yesterday than when we last lunched but it was indeed. When lunchtime rolled around we wanted a warm venue with warm comforting food. Not hard to choose with those criteria. We headed straight for Bombay Grill!

For Kerry hot masala tea

For me a kingfisher beer.

Onion Bhaji of course. We dug into them before we remembered to take the photographs!

Reshmi tikka described as boneless cubes of chicken marinated in cream and mildly spiced and cooked in the tandoor.

Dhansak lamb described as well-spiced hot sweet and sour curry. And well spiced it surely was!

Naan bread and rice.

It looks like an awful lot of food for two people but this time our ordering was quite deliberate. Kerry would be going directly from lunch to work and would take our doggy bag with her for dinner.

[Anna N]

Today our lunch was much more of an adventure than we had planned. After getting our haircut in Burlington we picked up Kerry's ailing chariot to drive it to the repair shop in Hamilton. We knew it would likely be there for a while so Kerry's husband followed in his vehicle. The plan was we would drop off the car and return to Burlington then pick up a rental car and decide where to go for lunch. Well apparently the universe had other things in store. A few kilometers from the repair shop and on a very busy Hamilton Street the car faltered and then quit smack bang in the middle of an intersection. Kerry's husband managed to push it so it was no longer blocking the intersection and Kerry called CAA. On a day when the temperature was hitting 30 below with the windchill we didn't expect to see a tow truck for some hours. But lo and behold. We had come to rest right opposite the famous Bedrock Bistro Café!

http://www.bedrockbistro.ca

Few of these old-fashioned diners still exist so it is an experience not to be missed to eat in one of them!

Our male guest went for the brontosaurus burger and finished every last crumb on his plate

Kerry ordered the chicken Caesar salad

And I had the Philly steak

It was far more food than I could possibly eat but it was a fun experience.

We stayed warm while keeping an eye on the car lest the tow truck show up and enjoyed a fun meal. Not too long after lunch the car was on its way to the repair shop and we were on our way home to pick up the rental car.

[Anna N]

We were a little surprised today when we returned to one of our favorite lunch spots Pomelo restaurant. Their exterior sign had been changed. When we brought it up with our server we were told the restaurant had changed hands. Somehow it didn't seem like a good thing.

Ginger tea for Kerry.

A Thai beer for me.

A shared plate of calamari.

Tom yum pho for Kerry

Beef pho for me

[Darienne]

We were a little surprised today when we returned to one of our favorite lunch spots Pomelo restaurant. Their exterior sign had been changed. When we brought it up with our server we were told the restaurant had changed hands. Somehow it didn't seem like a good thing.

 

But...did it foretell good or bad things...?

 

[FauxPas]

We were a little surprised today when we returned to one of our favorite lunch spots Pomelo restaurant. Their exterior sign had been changed. When we brought it up with our server we were told the restaurant had changed hands. Somehow it didn't seem like a good thing.

 

Was the food as good as usual? 

[Anna N]

Was the food as good as usual?

[Anna N]

Today Kerry and I wandered around the T&T (Asian) supermarket on Burnhamthorpe in Mississauga for about two hours. We were particularly on a mission to find some of the Ramen noodle brands recommended in another topic. We really did not have much success but did enjoy ourselves immensely. We were just too close to Kenzo Ramen to find anywhere else for lunch.

Takoyaki which Kerry was able to watch being made

King of Kings Ramen for Kerry

Tonkotsu Ramen for me

For rotuts another Japanese spice which along with white pepper was served with my Ramen. I found this to be much less tongue-tingling than the stuff I use at home!

[ElsieD]

Yum. Looks good.

[rotuts]

I really hope to try Takoyaki some day.

[Anna N]

There's a reason we don't hang around sports bars and the food is only one of them! However, we attended the Toronto gift show to drool over the latest in kitchen gadgetry and the food there is even worse than one gets in a sports bar! After walking aisle after aisle of shiny new pots, pans and gewgaws we had worked up quite an appetite and so pulled in to the first place that looked like it had food.

Calamari

The platter of ribs, wings and boneless wings. Enough said.