We are participating in the 2006 City Dine promotion that benefits the Canadian Association of Food Banks. This is our menu that we are offering with a $35 wine pairing. The wines paired with the menu offer a great value for some great wines that would normally be worth $50 if we offered them by the glass.
Dinner Menu
$35.00 Three-Course Prix Fixe Meal
$35.00 Rare Wine Pairing
First Course
Weathervane scallops – sautéed~savoury clams ~ fennel broth
Cakebread Cellars Sauvignon Blanc 2004
OR
Cauliflower Soup – truffles~lobster salad ~ smoked steelhead caviar
Cakebread Cellars Sauvignon Blanc 2004
OR
Romaine Hearts – garlic dressing~bacon rasher ~ sourdough crouton ~ anchovy
Cakebread Cellars Sauvignon Blanc 2004Main Course
Cornish Hen – lemon thyme~walnut crust ~ golden beet puree ~ verjus vinaigrette
St. Francis “Nunn’s Canyon” Reserve Merlot 1998
OR
Queen Charlotte Island Halibut – organic carrots ~ chorizo ~ asparagus sauce
L’Ecole No.41 Columbia Valley Semillon 2004
OR
Canadian Striploin Steak – pepper crusted ~ slow cooked leeks ~ fondant potatoes
Benziger Cabernet Sauvignon Sonoma 2003
Or
St. Francis “Nunn’s Canyon” Reserve Merlot 1998Dessert
Meyer Lemon – tart~maple ice cream ~ hazelnut crisp
Buller Fine Old Muscat
OR
Rare Cheeses – medjool dates
Buller Victoria TawnyCome out and support this event and the other participating restaurants www.citydine.ca
——————–Tim Keller
Restaurant Director/Owner
Rare One
Category Archives: Politics
keep rocking, Lebanon!
In a followup to this post of mine, Ahmad over at Cold Desert has posted a couple more liquor ads. It’s amazing how patriotic a good marketing company can make getting pissed, eh? We saw it here first, but these guys just don’t stop! They may be hungover, but they’re still on the ball; still, there goes the sales in Southern Florida.
Check out the latest Absolut ads in Beirut:
and
Rebuilding a country is thirsty work. Man, I could really use a drink right now…
the ultimate blog posts
This is a clever strategy to promote your blog: tell anyone who will listen that you were a guest blogger on one of the most popular blogs, and given how pathetic the search boxes are on most of them, corroboration, if it existed, would be impossible to find anyway.
So Wired has done a handy-dandy list of the ultimate blog posts for each of the top blogs, sorta like that time I pitched the Province on the “single welfare foster mom of Aboriginal, dyslexic pit bull orphans wins lottery, gets impregnated by Brad Pitt, steals car from Surrey mall” story, and it shouldn’t be long now until she finally manifests and I can write the damn thing.
Ultimate blog post for raincoaster: Cthulhu rises from Rl’yeh, exposes Stephen Harper as an inhuman Fungi from Yuggoth and destroys him, all slavering right-wingers awake from their mind controlled walking comas, surviving Watergate Plumbers drop dead from the shock, worldwide communal anarchy is declared; the YouTube video (soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails, bonus appearance by the Monkees)
While blogging has only reached prominence in the last few years, it was actually invented by the ancient Romans who built a majestic blog in 200 BC from marble, granite and links they stole from the Greeks.
“Blog” itself is short for “weblog,” which is short for “we blog because we weren’t very popular in high school and we’re trying to gain respect and admiration without actually having to be around people.”
Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you’re about as likely to find someone else interested in it…
Boing Boing: Crocheted replica of subway map cracks DRM on collection of old video games.
Kottke: Elwin Festerator is the unsung inventor of the curly telephone cord. “I looked at a straight telephone cord, and I asked myself, Elwin, why can’t that be curly? So I went out and got my brand-new curling gun, and I curled the hell out of it.” Related link: New Yorker article on the Olympic curling team.
Daily Kos: Bush caught in three-way with Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh.
Little Green Footballs: Bush enjoys triumphant three-way with Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh.
Gawker: Paris Hilton does pretty much anything.
Cute Overload: A kitten licks a puppy while the puppy licks a bunny.
Fleshbot: Same as Cute Overload, only with coeds.
MAKE blog: How to create a nuclear accelerator using a Flash drive, a Commodore 64 and a guy named Roger.
Metafilter: Unhelpful link text. Extra links added for padding that have little to do with the main topic of the entry. Are extremely loaded rhetorical questions the only thing that can save us now?
It’s a blog, Metafilterites. What do you think?
the liquor freedom indicator: bellwether of liberty
I think we can abolish CSIS, MI6 and the CIA now. We have the Liquor Freedom Indicator to take and transmit the temperature of any geopolitical hotspots.
Imagine the savings: total cost = the bar tab for a double Johnny Walker Black on the rocks in a bar in the capital of each nation. Compare that to an estimated $30 billion for the CIA alone, $200 million for CSIS, and £776 million for MI6. Hmmm…
I shall get to work on the travel grant application immediately.
Americans need to know who their friends are and now. That’s been a tall order since long before Archie Bunker wondered what trick Nixon had up his sleeve pretending to make peace with the ChiComs. Our own State Department is standing proof that you can spend seven years at Georgetown, ace the Foreign Service Exam, and still not know your Assyrians from your asshole.
Today, the world’s a ball of confusion, right? War
in Iraq, Lebanon, Uzbekistan, Timor, Somalia, Gaza, Backwaterstan, and Toledo. The quickly shifting sands of foreign relations have increased the complexity of the U.S.’s ties, alliances, and uneasy truces from “merely knotty” to “what the hell are we doing?” If war is God’s way of teaching Americans geography, are asymmetrical, urban, guerrilla conflicts with non-state actors God’s way of making geography irrelevant?
Average Americans consistently demonstrate no understanding of expected return, octane ratings, and what the hell their legislators voted for last session. They’re never going to get ahead of the foreign policy learning curve unless someone can simplify the process. That’s why I try to distill all analysis of a foreign country’s structure, culture, and prospects for success down to booze.
So without further ado, I give you the liquor freedom indicator.
There follows an dryly exhaustive analysis of Pakistan, Gaza, Saudi Arabia, Beirut, Northern Lebanon, Southern Lebanon, and Iraq. So to speak.
Still no word on Salt Lake City.
keep walking, Lebanon
Maybe you’ve heard of the rather edgy marketing that Johnny Walker is doing in Beirut; mind you, marketing whiskey in Beirut is always an edgy business, and I speak as the progeny of a woman who lived with a guy who made a moderate fortune importing Johnny Walker Black into Saudi Arabia. And taking blackmail photos of the Saudis in his casino for the CIA, but that’s neither here nor there.
Although it’s not as edgy as marketing it in Salt Lake City, come to think of it.
Their actual sign:
And the suggested new, rather more specific design, from Animal New York, via Gawker:
