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The Boil Bar Grand Opening Media Tasting (Yonge St)

Posted on November 2, 2016 by stenoodie

The Boil Bar located at 664 Yonge Street in Toronto

This past Saturday, I was invited to a media tasting event at the Grand Opening event of The Boil Bar in downtown Toronto. Having had success in their uptown store, The Boil Bar has expanded a flagship store near the busy intersection of Yonge & Bloor at 664 Yonge Street. You can get there by either walking from Yonge & Bloor subway station or Wellesley subway station. What is different at The Boil Bar’s seafood boils compared to other ones is that they infuse alcohol into their seafood boils and cocktails! We were all looking forward to trying out these alcohol-infused seafood boils! 🙂 Continue reading →

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Terroni at Adelaide

Posted on November 1, 2016 by stenoodie

Terroni at Adelaide located at 57 Adelaide Street East in Toronto

I’ve heard so much about Terroni but had never been to any location of theirs before to try a single Italian dish. Thus, I was very grateful to be able to get to try it finally! We went to Terroni at Adelaide on a Friday night — they have two other locations; one at Queen and one at Yonge at Price.

Terroni at Adelaide is located at 57 Adelaide Street East and housed inside the historic York County Court House, which served as the city court from 1852 to 1900. How neat! Continue reading →

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Media Nexus Network “Influencer Photography & Networking Event”

Posted on October 31, 2016 by stenoodie

Media Nexus Network “Influencer Photography & Networking Event” located at Moscow Tea Room at 82 Peter St in Toronto

A couple of weeks ago, I received an e-mail from a representative from Media Nexus Network about an “Influencer Photography & Networking Event” (later branded as a “Networking & Photography Workshop” in a subsequent follow-up e-mail). Within the e-mail, the representative described that this was an event where photography workshops would be set up for bloggers to create content, share ideas, and collaborate on site. Continue reading →

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Ebisu on Queen

Posted on October 30, 2016 by stenoodie

Ebisu on Queen located at 204 Queen Street W in Toronto

After attending the grand opening party of Ebisu on Queen two weeks or so ago, I returned to the restaurant to actually try out their food on a regular weeknight. I had received a $20 gift voucher from them at the grand opening party and intended to use it towards my visit. Continue reading →

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Complimentary Tasting Dinner at Té

Posted on October 29, 2016 by stenoodie

Té located at 70 Ossington Ave. in Toronto

When Grace Cho, the chef and co-owner at Té, reached out to me about visiting her restaurant for a complimentary tasting in order to get my feedback and review on Zomato I was excited and looking forward to the meal!

Té is an Asian fusion restaurant on the Ossington Strip of downtown Toronto. Their menu is an Asian twist on North American bar foods and their cocktails are tea inspired; this includes bubble tea cocktails. Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Transmogrify

Posted on October 28, 2016 by stenoodie

Signal Hill, TST, Hong Kong. September 2016

“Transmogrify,” which means “to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.” Asides from the usual photos of butterflies, street art, or autumn colours, which I feel like has been overdone, the photo I’m choosing this week is typical of the activities that I partook in while I was in Hong Kong just a month ago: Continue reading →

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10/26/2016 Steno views

Posted on October 27, 2016 by stenoodie

A huge big room today..!

Reporting from the Financial District today on the 10th floor. No windows though

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South Korea 2016 Day 2: Palaces, Coffee, Lanterns, & Food Trucks

Posted on October 26, 2016 by stenoodie

Seafood feast with fresh fish soup and seafood by the ocean in Gangneung!

Day 2 Korea. Sept. 15, 2016

Today was a really great second day in the land of kimchi and palaces (got to eat/see both of those today)!

In the morning, we locked up our hanok VERY securely with one of the primitive forms of lock and key — a chain with a stick 😂 — and then headed to the little cafe called Café Lee Mong right in the Gangneung Seongyojang village that was open to the public for free today thanks to it being a public holiday. Continue reading →

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South Korea 2016 Day 1: Arrival in Gangneung

Posted on October 25, 2016 by stenoodie

Seongyojang House (강릉 선교장) located at 63, Unjeong-gil, Gangneung-si, Gangwon-do 강원도 강릉시 운정길 63 (운정동), South Korea

Wed. Sept. 14 2016. Day 1 in Korea.

Last night, we took a red eye flight (getting to the airport at 10 p.m.) departing at 12:40 a.m. to go to Incheon International Airport for 6 days of self-guided travel in Korea. Woohoo! It was the first time that I’ve been to Korea without a tour — I’ve visited previously two other times, both times through a tour agency :). Continue reading →

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Touhenboku Cafe [Defunct]

Posted on October 24, 2016 by stenoodie

Touhenboku Cafe located at 142 Main St., Unionville

What a surprise it was to see that there was a Touhenboku Cafe while strolling down Main Street Unionville yesterday! I didn’t know that in addition to the ramen restaurants that Touhenboku had opened up (one on Queen Street West and one in Richmond Hill) that they had an individual cafe shop too! I couldn’t resist walking in to check out what it was about. 🙂 Continue reading →