Union Station Food Market

Hello people.

It's getting hot. The weather is getting or still is nice these days. Use it, abuse it, have some fun outside everybody. With better weather there is always more things to do, more stalls to see outside and try. Every few blocks seems like there are more food stalls opening for the summer.

Doublde Down Sandwich

This was from one of the food stalls there, double mini beef patties in a coconut bread bun with slaw. This was delicious, yet dry. Huge and filling all washed down with the ginger beer. A match made perfectly. The bit dryness from all that bread, with a nice cold drink to keep it fresh and crisp. All this was $11 together. There are so many other food stalls to try, would love to try the rest soon.

This is good, I bet all the other stalls are delicious as well, so go out and enjoy the different food vendors and try some new food today.

Enjoy the weather everyone.

IKEA eatin

Howdy folks,

Summer is still blazin, the weathers getting topsy turvy. It's hot, its windy, make up its mind.
Even though the weather is confusing, doesn't mean you should stop eating right. Anywhere you go, everywhere you go could be a place of food and treats.

I was helping a friend run some errands and stopped by IKEA. With so many items to see, Ikea also has a decent selection of meals, and snacks for a budget friendly price. Even breakfast here is a dollar I believe.



Vegetarian balls with broccoli and rice with beans (usually comes with tomato sauce, but substituted for gravy)

Usually I would go for the meatballs, the gravy and longan berry jam is delicious with the meatballs, but today I opted for an alternative. The broccoli's are just blanched, rice is bland, the vegetarian balls were a bit salt, and really lacked any flavour/texture. But all in all will I say this was a bad meal? I mean it did fill me up, for I believe $6.99 I wasn't overly disappointed. Though I did feel that subbing for gravy was a great idea on my part, added some taste and flavour to a boring meal. A bit healthier this wasn't bad.
Ikea you alright.

Well continue the journey, continue eating and enjoy your days.
 

Porchetta CO

Snap, Crackle Crackle Everyone

Those are the sounds of a tasty cracklin, or some tasty fried chicken.
My sister had brought me some Porchetta Co sandwiches, and boy were they tasty.
I love a good sandwich, and boy were these ever tasty. No extra frills, these are just simple and super tasty.

Pork Cracklin Sandwich

Pork was cracklin, sauce was saucy, with it dripping down everything was just finger lickin tasty. Not the hugest fan of the bread, but everything WOW. These were some superfine, super casual, super tasty sandwiches. Crispy pork, with other sliced pork, these were super tasty.


Fried Chicken Sandwich

These were the bomb. I mean fried chicken is always tasty, the sauce was killer, saucy and spicy oh my. These are just.. these are just crunchy, spicy goodness. It's a huge filler, So one of these will definitely stuff you up. Come and try these delicious sandwiches.

Sandwich, sandwich could eat these for days.

Enjoy the summer, enjoy the weather and continue to try different foods.

Tokyo Grill

What a food, what a place to live.

Living in Toronto has many good and bads. One great thing about living here is that it's so multicultural that you can try different foods from different culture within the city.

This time a place well visited was Tokyo grill which offers nearly authentic food. With  so many different sushi/Japanese restaurants, this place stays away from the sushi and goes for more classic regular Japanese food. I've never been to any other restaurant that offers nato.

From here I got the chicken katsu which is deep fried flattened chicken breast.
Chicken Katsu.

It comes with a side of rice, miso soup and salad and even the miso soup here tastes cleaner and more authentic compared to other restaurants.
The food here is affordable around Yonge and Wellesley.
I think it came to about $12.95 before tax.
Generous portions, and tasty food. The place is a bit cozy, but has a larger area in the back to accommodate larger groups.

If you wanted to try authentic Japanese food  without travelling there, check out Tokyo Grill for other tasty options.

China Cottage

How do you do everybody?

Got a hankering for some chinese food, or well american Chinese food and some indian so went to try some Hakka food which combines both worlds. After waiting for my friend we went to check out China Cottage and entering with high hopes, I was a bit disappointed. It could've been due to going at an off hour at 2, there was few customers.
Most of the restaurants have a $6.75 lunch special that offers rice, an option of daily soup, pop or spring roll, I chose the spring roll and the lunch option of chilli chicken which was suppose to be really good. The service was slightly lacking, and taste wise... personally it wasn't the best. It could just be me that wasn't a fan as it seems that they have a second restaurant that opened.



Chilli Chicken with Spring Roll

The meal was heavily sauced, lacked enough rice for the sauce ratio at least to me. The chicken is ok for the first few bites, but it gets tiring real quick. The meal was more sweet than spicy. Their hot sauce were thick red pepper sauce, and a pickled pepper sauce.

Would I come here again? If I had to with nothing else to try, I might come back but not my personal go to.

If you guys tried it and enjoyed it, feel free to let me know what is good.

Happy Day everybody.

Milestones Brunch

Hello everybody
It's the weekend, and weekends, people tend to relax so why not brunch. Breakfast and Lunch all rolled into one. Or why not do a breakfast brunch and lunch. 3 meals hooray.

But being the weekend looking for a brunch meal, we ended up going to milestones seeing the brunch sign up.

I've usually gone to Milestones for dinner, but seeing that they now have brunch, said why not. With multiple locations they haven't been that bad.

California Eggs Benny

These were tasty Eggs Benedict's. These came with shrimp, avocado salsa and bacon on a well cooked runny poached eggs and breakfast fries. But really my question is what is the difference between breakfast fries and regular french fries. Fries are always tasty either way. These were tasty yet a little expensive for a breakfast item at $15.50. Yum Yum

Strawberries and Cream French Toast

These french toasts were delicious. But really anything with syrup is pretty good. Strawberries thank you. Not a fan of cream but everything else, bread, strawberries and syrup yes please. At $10.50 these were pretty good.

Breakfast Tacos

The breakfast tacos are not that bad. Tacos good, bacon eggs good, salsa good, what can go wrong. Though it's a little small for my liking, at $11 but these aren't that bad. Even comes with fries. I would still go with other breakfast burritos but these will have to do for now.

Now that brunch is over, enjoy the rest of your meals

Captains Boil

Aargh  maties

Heres another round of food tastin, reviewin, travellin, and sailin into my tastebuds.
Coming back to Toronto, there is a wide variety of different foods to try. But the more places to try, the harder it gets to decide on what to eat. This time it was all aboard to the Captains Boil. Have heard great things and always wanted to try this place out. Hot steaming shellfish served in a bag, it has the fun aspect of seeing the food and sharing with friends. They have 3 different flavours but going with the captains boil flavours gives a mixture of all three. I would say, just get the captains boil unless your sure of one flavour you prefer.

Mussels

Usually I'm not a huge fan of mussels, because it's small and lacks flavour for me, or just get's overpowered by the sauce, but these were some nice tasting mussels. This was the spicy heat but wasn't that spicy. These were the biggest mussels I've tried. It felt like I was eating chicken wings, heavy and saucy, the shell fills up with the sauces and was a great combination of meat to sauce. This was 10.95$ and it was a good filling amount.

Shrimps

These shrimps were good. I'm usually a fan of shrimp, and like all shrimp. I can eat shrimp all day. These have the head and shell on it, and all perfectly edible, since it's all flavoured. The was the medium heat but was spicier than the spicy mussels that we ordered. At 12.95$ I would get the mussels if I was going alone, but definitely good to share.

Cajun fries and Cajun Seafood Fried Rice

The fries at 4.95$ and rice at 10.95$ depends on which you prefer, but both aren't bad. The rice is tasty even as it cools, but the rice is super tasty when hot and spicy. Honestly I feel like you need a carb, I love carbs with all the proteins and spice to help balance it out. So I would say pick one side, the rice is fun since you can pick the meat off and put it on the rice. The fries are just tasty.

So all in all, going with a buddy, this was way to much food for both of us. But it was tasty. I would recommended it for people to try. They have other proteins beside seafood, but and between the two of us it came to about 25$ each. So shiver me timbers, and yo ho ho to the Captains Boil.
They also give you a fun bib to not splatter all over yourself and gloves to not messy up those pretty fingers.

Toronto

Hello everyone,

So since schools done, it's time for many people to go back home.  For the moment I've put a pause of visiting different Peterborough restaurants, and will be doing reviews on Toronto restaurants that I visit. Theres a far more variety in Toronto, it'll be hard to try everything but I'll see whats available.

Cheers.

Rileys Pubs

An end to a busy season of schools, exams are wrapped up and what better way to end it then with cheap wings. Congrats to everyone that finished, anyone still studying a final hoorah

Riley's is known in town as the place to be on Tuesdays for its tasty cheap wings with an order of drink. with wings being $0.39 with a minimum of 10 and a drink order would come out to just about $10. This is a typical pub, with other pub foods and it even has a joint pool bar right next door. Usually Tuesdays are packed with people coming in for the wings after 5pm. Cheap food, thats still tasty can't go wrong.


Mix order of wings.

Sauces from top left going clockwise:
 Salt and Pepper. Hot Caeser. Honey Garlic. Hot Forty. Curry. Hot Honey.
Went with a few people, to try a bunch of different wings. Personal favourites were the honey honey and the honey garlic in second. The least favourite of the night was the curry dressing. It felt like an odd flavour for the fried wings. Not all the sauces will be hits, there are few misses. Nothing stood out as wow amazing, but for the price I would say this place is a popular place to go to with friends. For quieter scenes I would go on a day that's not Tuesday, as due to to the crowd, the service seems to slow down a bit. Just a heads up, on wings night, even water is charged and they give out a paper with rules to follow.

Enjoy the summer everyone.

Thai Express to Black Honey Bakery

What a busy week, or busy weeks. All the students know that as it nears the end, things get busier and a bit more hectic. Wasn't able to try a top yelp restaurant, but I will try to continue to constantly update this page more often.

During one of my study breaks I went to go eat at Thai Express which is located in the building next to the library. Trent offers a few food chain restaurants, Subway, Tim Horton's and Thai Express. The options are limited, so it doesn't really open up a wide amount of variety. It's still better than the regular cafe food that is offered though. I prefer to eat outside of school, but you have to make do with what is given.

General Curry "Red"

Upon deciding on what to order, I had chosen this one since I've never heard of a general curry. But upon realization, it's just curry with general tsao chicken pieces or it was just (breaded chicken). The sauce wasn't bad, but it wasn't spicy at all. I had even asked for extra spicy with a look of concern from the staff, but the spice level was there but not as spicy as to what I was looking for. Next time I'll just stick with curry, as the breaded chicken was just soaked and wet.

Next stop was back to downtown Peterborough. There are a few dessert places to try out, Black Honey Bakery. This place was ultra sweet and super delicious. A little disappointed since upon reading reviews there was some lemon tart/cake? that was supposed to be spot on, but thats a seasonal/request dessert. But they had other really good desserts as well. Most of the desserts were cheese cakes, with few cakes, and other sandwiches and drinks.

Chocolate Oblivion

This was spot on. Super moist and rich. It was super sweet as I was downing lots of water. But as a fan of chocolate, it felt like I was a kid in a candy store. A euphoria in my mouth. The ganache was a little harder than what I preferred, but still this was fantastic.

Study hard, eat good food and be happy.

Ashburnham Ale House

Another day, another adventure.

This time I got a chance to check out Ashburnham Ale House. Going down the list of where to eat, it seems exciting on what food I will be able to try next. A tasty restaurant, with creative menu items. I would definitely come back here more often to try other menu items.
I got the menu items off the website, I can't remember if it the menu names changed or not, since it seemed different? But either way I think they'll know and still, give it a go I say.

Kennebec Cone "O" Fries

These fries. These fries were so good. These fries, you can't go wrong. I think the fries were tossed in curry powder seasoning, along with a tasty zesty curry mayo dipping sauce. Drool. These were so good.

Southern Pride Brisket Sandwich

This sandwich was so juicy and tender. The meat just melts in your mouth. Definitely the main part of meal. I could just eat a whole bucket of this pulled beef. It came with a side salad, which helped balance out the hearty sandwich. the vinaigrette helped cut the juicy fattiness of the sandwich.

Henry's Pork Belly Ribs

These ribs were fatty, juicy, and again came with those super tasty fries. The meat was tasty, but I've had better ribs. I would still eat it, but would try other menus before coming back to this item.
The coleslaw that came with it was well I wouldn't even call it a coleslaw. It looks like coleslaw, but all it was, was shredded vegetables dressed in mayo. No other seasoning it seemed like. REALLY BLAND. Everything else was tasty except for their coleslaw.

For sure, add this place to a food destination and order some of those tasty fries.

Hot Belly Mamas

Where to start, where to start.

Exploring Peterborough, whenever someone come's to town, I feel like the first place I always take them is to Hot Belly Mamas. They offer a New Orleans, french creole cajun cuisine experience. 

I have tried several dishes here and most of their meals have been spot on delicious.

For the dishes being tasty, they have generous amounts of sides given. I was initially shocked and excited when they offered 2 sides per dish, but that was it. For the main dishes being tasty, their sides were more of a let down.

BON APPETIT

Started with their bayou boil. (Crawfish)

Actually my first time trying crawfish, and it was quite tasty.

A bountiful portion with a side of couple of breads. There were some potatoes mixed in, but the crawfish was spot on. 

Share the potatoes, keep the crawfish.

Mains: Tortilla Panko Crusted Chicken Sandwich with a side of sweet potato fries and jambalaya

Again, the sandwich was spot on. It was awkward with a giant piece of lettuce on the bottom, but boy oh boy is the chicken ever tasty. It also had some slaw in the sandwich. I would definitely order this again.
The jambalaya, tasted bland and wasn't a favourite, and the sweet potato fries are, well it's hard to go bad on fries.

Mains: Kansas City BBQ Ribs

These fall off the bone ribs, hmmmm so tender, and finger lick'n good. These ribs. I mean these ribs. Wow. These are some tasty ribs.
Sides ordered with it were cajun potatoes and house salad. Again salad is what it is, it had a vinaigrette on top, and the potatoes are nothing to cheer about, but the ribs so good.

Starting the Journey

Welcome to My first post.

The reason I'm starting this blog is that whenever people ask me what is good in Peterborough, or anywhere I go, all I come up with is confused look and quickly check online only to usually find a  tripadvisor list of top rated restaurant. I wanted to add more options instead of just tripadvisor, so while in school here, I had decided that I would try more food and help the people decide where they should try, and my Hit's and Misses.
I'll try to try different foods, while on a student budget.

HAPPY EATING!