White Brick Kitchen

White Brick Kitchen

Dragged through a bitter cold morning and I find the staff at White Brick Kitchen awake, bright-eyed, and bushy tailed; I immediately dislike and resent them for it, though this comes entirely from my lack of sleep and has nothing to do with them. I wait for the Silly...
Uncle Betty’s Diner

Uncle Betty’s Diner

Walking north up along Young St. from Eglington station, I ran into the Silly Vogelfänger, and so we skipped off to lunch. We’d been laughing too much to choose a place as we walked north, and so we turned back south and stopped at the first restaurant that we came...
White Brick Kitchen

Buk Chang Dong Soon Tofu Korean Restaurant

Following the Walk of the Dead parade in Dundas Grove Park (?), the Opaque Dancer and I found ourselves cold and hungry, the broken bread we pinched and the heat from the effigy bonfire not enough to keep us warm or drive away our hunger. Heading back to the Annex, we...
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Coffee & All That Jazz

I needed to wake up, or else needed stimulants in general. After walking up Roncesvalles with the Cheery Milliner, fatigue was leeching into my limbs. We ended up in Coffee & All That Jazz, a wide strip of a cafe just west of Roncesvalles before it runs north into...
White Brick Kitchen

Food and Culture

This took me a while to sit down and start. I find the divide between food and the cultures that consume and create it intractable, similar to how food and medicine is impossibly linked in Chinese cuisines. I vacillated between taking a high view of food and culture,...