I’ve had the opportunity to go out for lunch with one of my imaginary friends, Mike several times over the past couple of years. Yesterday was just such an occasion and we went, once again, to Carlos’ Cantina on St. Paul Street in St. Catharines. We’ve been there thrice, now and Amy and I went [...]
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Sick of being in the house, we decided to take a date night tonight. This is a fairly regular occurrence around these parts and being in the Niagara area, we usually try to find a non-chain restaurant to grace with our presence. Tonight we decided to try Café Amore on Martindale Road in St. Catharines. [...]
Today was our co-op student’s last day in the office but since he left at 11:30, my boss took him and the rest of us out for lunch yesterday. We went to Real Sushi (or Real Shusi, if you’d prefer the name on the back of the waitstaff’s t-shirts). Amy and I have been going [...]
This is another downtown St. Catharines find. Niagara has some of the best restaurants anywhere. Admittedly it’s no New York City but it’s also cheaper and 20 minutes’ drive instead of 8+ hours. Whenever we talk about going to Noodle House (288 St. Paul Street, map is here) we say it like Dean Vernon in [...]
Downtown St. Catharines (and Niagara in general) is home to a great many excellent independent restaurants. Pow Wow is one of the first that we tried during our year off of chain restaurants. PW is right across the street from my office. According to their site, they’ve been in business for nearly 15 years. They [...]
Today is the first of the lightning reviews. These are going to be quick reviews of five or so items, sometimes physical, sometimes a bit more ethereal. Today’s are fairly physical objects. I will do a quick review of the first five books I happen to grab out of my bookshelf. Normally this is where [...]
I’ve had accounts in multiple different protocols for many years. My first was ICQ (long since forgotten the number, haven’t used it in ages) and then I moved into MSN along with most of the rest of the non-US world. I played around with IRC for a bit in college and then when I joined [...]