This is Cocoro Japanese Pottery Cafe in Smith St, which has been open for a year. Continue reading “(Real) green tea at Cocoro Japanese Pottery Cafe”
Ume Nomiya, Gertrude Street’s Japanese drinking house
Miss K, renascent party girl, took me on a bar crawl of Gertrude St on Friday. We checked out Little Rebel (don’t share my barber man’s enthusiasm), Radio, and Gertrude’s (more anon). It involved dinner at Ume Nomiya (ume: Japanese plum, usually pickled — pictured, thanks to Matt Helminski; nomiya: drinking house) the tiny 37-seat Japanese place next to our regular haunt, Tandoori Times. Indolent Andy said it was his favourite Japanese restaurant, and that was enough to pull me out of some inertia and get in there. Mind you I think lingering first impressions when the place was but a bar and was not all that busy were preying on my inertia. Then, it was a bit too cool for school, weird even, though that was back in 2001. We loved every minute of our relatively quick dinner and warm sake slurp there. Continue reading “Ume Nomiya, Gertrude Street’s Japanese drinking house”
Abbotsford Convent Bakery is Open
Its hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thanks to Carlmonus in London, over at Flickr, for the lovely photo. My photos of the bakery are still trapped in my camera while I find the little cord which allows them to travel towards Flickr.