The Yum Yum Factor

 Hello my lovlelies! The family is on our first vacation in almost two years and it's a covid friendly affair. Not ready for international travel, airports and sharing air for 8 hours, we threw our Segway Ninebot Max scooters on the roof of the car and headed east. We stopped in Montreal for the first night, thinking we would just get up early and continue on our way. HAH who is going to bitch about burrata and rose outdoors? Like that was going to happen. I booked us into the brand, spanking new Hotel St Thomas on Sherbrooke, we dropped all of our crap into the ginormous room and hit the road on the scooters. It was a Monday night, which means just about any restaurant I would want to visit is closed so we did the only thing you can do in on a Monday.... we went to Old Montreal and grabbed an outdoor table at Bevo Bar and had a lovely bottle of Rose, some pizza and apps, perfect after a long day of driving. Once we woke up, we all knew we wanted to stay another night so I took ca...

I am posting my Week In Yum a day early because I am on the road to Montreal tomorrow after lunch at Taste of Toronto. Keep an eye out for my posts about my trip to Detroit in the coming weeks. First up, after telling you about the Shepard Fairey exhibit, I will be doing a round up of the amazing restaurants I ate in and then I am going to share a story or two about some of the people making things happen in Detroit, but for now, if you can swing a trip to Detroit before this wonderful art show is gone, move heaven and earth to do that. Shepard Fairey "Printed Matter"  Renowned American artist, Shepard Fairey, spent most of May in Detroit painting a 184 ft mural on the back of the Compuware Building at the behest of Quicken Loans founder and CEO, Dan Gilbert. Gilbert also commissioned him to tag the outdoor walls at his Beltway Alley outdoor gallery, behind the Library Street Collective, which is currently housing a large Fairey exhibit. It seems that this ...

Heatherlea Farm Landman Garden and Bakery I loved almost everything we experienced on our tour of the Headwaters but the things that always stick out, for me anyway, are the people I meet. I love getting to meet the people who dedicate their lives to growing and producing the food that we eat and if I can't kind of fall in love with the people, I can't fall for the place. Two of the farms that that really stuck out, for me, were Landman Gardens and Bakery and Heatherlea Farm Market . The best part is that both of these farms are an easy drive from Toronto - an hour, at most- making them great places to haul an ice packed cooler to, if you know what I'm saying. Landman Gardens and Bakery Calling this place "gardens and bakery" is a bit misleading because although there are, in fact, gardens and a bakery, there are also a bazillion goats, chickens, sheep and a couple of cows. Milking the bazillion goats is a big part of their revenu...