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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 07:58pm on 26/06/2002
Hello! Good to run into you again.

Was it a good restaurant? Worth going back to? I'm sure I'll be back in Montreal at some point and it's always worth knowing about good places to eat!

It's easy to say people in the US have no taste for good food, but I'm not sure it's true. I mostly think that lack of exposure = lack of knowledge about food options = lack of demand for it. There are bright sides, and lots of people involved in the ongoing task of trying to change that. For example, friends of my family are involved in the US's first "real" prosciutto-making native operation. And not all good food is a foreign import either, especially when it comes to really tasty things to do with meat. One of the things I regularly miss most when not living in the US (unfortunately, New England doesn't count, it's no good for this either) is real barbecue. Mmm... barbecue ribs.
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posted by [personal profile] nepenthedreams at 06:09am on 27/06/2002
Was it a good restaurant? Worth going back to?

Oh my god yes. Toque (on St. Denis) was the best food I've *ever* had. I also had the best sushi ever up there - Kaizen on St. Catherine's.

As for America - hmmm...I guess I'm pretty happy in Boston, with lots of local restaurants and most people I know here are willing to try new things. However, when it comes to the people I work with outside the city, they would rather go to TGIF every day than try something new, and I find that depressing.

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