Upon our arrival in Toronto after a lengthy travel time (45 minutes at the border crossing and 15 minutes figuring out how to get into our hotel), we changed and got ready for dinner at the top of the CN Tower, which is the world's tallest tower. The restaurant makes a full rotation every 72 minutes. It was neat because we had an early dinner (5:45), so we got to see everything in daylight and at night. But first, the scrumptiously painful (i.e. too much) menu for the evening.
Appetizer
WILD MUSHROOM AND VIDALIA ONION BISQUE
Quebec ash rolled goat’s cheese, cracked olive crostini, tarragon crème fraiche
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Main Course
Tia: PAN SEARED FILLET OF ATLANTIC SALMON ON WILTED BABY SPINACH
Creamer potatoes, coriander sprouts, toasted pumpkin seeds, warm green tomato vinaigrette
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Bryan: TRUFFLE SCENTED PORTOBELLO MUSHROOM STEAK ON FRESH HORSERADISH MASH WITH ROASTED KING OYSTER MUSHROOMS
Grilled asparagus, morel mushroom cream
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Dessert
Tia: NIAGARA PEACH AND STRAWBERRY CRUMBLE
Cinnamon crème Anglaise, vanilla ice cream
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Bryan: DARK CHOCOLATE TOWER WITH SUMMER FRUITS
Raspberry vanilla crème Anglaise
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Although it was quite the splurge for us, we had an amazing time and the food was delicious. A few shots from the tower.
Lake view:
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Sunset:
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The city of Toronto:
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Us at dinner. We scored a table right next to the window!
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If you look closely, you can see that this is the view below (to the street) from the glass floor in the tower. It was so scary to stand on, even though it is entirely mental!
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The view from our hotel room:
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On Saturday we walked alllllll around, for a solid 8 hours, mostly in Chinatown. It was great to be back in a city with some ethnic foods. For dinner we decided to go to a sushi-go-round, which we miss immensely from Portland. This place sounded so cool too...the go-round part was boats that were actually in water. Well, it turns out that the sushi was very expensive, and the soba with chicken that I got was so gross that I barely ate any of it. So we paid $31 for nothing, and walked to this great Irish Pub and had a great time while watching some baseball, hearing some nice live music, having some fantastic drinks, and getting dinner #2 (putine, which is a Canadian thing...basically fries with gravy. Sounds nasty, but it was really good). We were seated in this raised section and had it all to ourselves for the 3ish hours we were there.
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We did a little shopping while we were there, but with the weak value of the dollar, we couldn't afford much of anything! Of course we did stop at Ikea and get a few little trinkets, including my favorite new striped apron. We also got some fun new stuff at Lush, including a blueberry mask and some shampoo that is in a bar form.
At some point during the weekend I was telling Bryan how he just isn't the type of guy to buy me flowers. It's totally fine, and he shows me he loves me a million other ways then buying me something that is going to die. I came home Tuesday after running some errands, and he said "come here, I have a surprise for you." He had hidden (in my closet, which I still think is really funny), these pretty pansies.
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You can't tell from this picture, but this is a big heavy planter full of them. I guess I made him feel bad, so he went out and bought me flowers. Too cute! I think they will dress up the house nicely for the upcoming upon house.
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More next week after the Niagara Falls trip.
4 comments:
what a fun trip. all that food looks so amazing; makes me hungry. And what a cute boyfriend!
Ok, so I zipped over after your comment (which I appreciated, btw, and responded to).
How fun that you are in Rochester! My dh's father's family is all from there and we love it. Seriously, it is such a lovely old town!!
hi tia,
me again :) just wanted to let you know that if you EVER have a topic that you think would make for some good discussion on my blog, please e.mail me (I'll give you the credit) and I am always keeping my eyes and ears open for good post topics.
thanks!
you can't forget the cheese curds! its what makes the poutine, a poutine, afterall!! lol. ;-)
if you ever venture farther than Toronto to Ottawa, you have to try a sharmwma or a beavertail. ;-)
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