While making shortbread has been his constant job over the quarter century, Stryg has two other major accomplishments under his belt. He toured around the world as a professional counter-tenor singer and opened the first proper restaurant on the stretch of Queen East that became Leslieville: Hello Toast.
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When I began this summer’s series of profiles I had no idea of the range of personalities I would meet and the contrasts of perspectives on one uniting topic – ice cream. For most people, when you bring up the topic of great ice cream in Toronto their first thought is of Greg’s, a small shop unassumingly located near the corner of Bloor and Spadina.
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Schiopetto is one of Collio’s oldest wineries, and Carlo’s father Mario started a winemaking revolution in Friuli when he set up shop there in the mid 1960s. Vigorous vineyard management, stainless steel fermentation, and white wines made with a skin contact and extended less contact, their wines are regarded by many as some of the finest in Italy.
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Getting out of the city for a few days can be so very therapeutic for both the body and soul… particularly when one chooses to visit one of the most exciting culinary destinations in the country. This week we look at the choicest places to eat, drink, and be merry in the wonderful town of Stratford, Perth County, Ontario.
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I am one of the diehard people who cannot visit Montreal without eating at Schwartz’s deli. If I’m there for the day, that is where I will eat. No questions asked. The hot, steamy meat comes fresh from a steamer with a pickle the size of the Jolly Green Giant’s big toe. It’s the type of place that always has a lineup (in -30 degree weather in winter) lineups that I have not seen in Toronto. You eat and then you leave. It’s a shrine. It’s an institution. My question is, can Caplansky’s, Goldin’s and The Stockyards beef it up for us?
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