After our trip to Quebec City and researching and eating the best French Toast I’ve ever eaten – sorry mom – at Panache, I decided to embark on a mission to find the best in Toronto.
Panache French Toast
My research led me to School in Liberty Village. I ordered the Crunchy French Toast. After waiting for what seemed to be hours (likely about 25-30-minutes), and watching the staff bring delicious food out to other customers, the food arrived.
First off, there were two pieces on the plate, and after further examination each piece was actually two-slices of loaf chalah together. It had a slight citrus taste and had what appeared to be fried Rice Crispy bits on it. It was very good, but I highly doubt it’s the best in the city!
If Panache is the benchmark, being a 9.5/10 (I need to leave room for someone to one-up Panache), then School’s Crispy French Toast was about a 7.5/10. My apologies to Brad Moore, executive chef at School, but the dish needs something more. Maybe some fresh cream or fruit slices with it. Also, machine cut chalah? Really? Your chef’s couldn’t muster the effort to hand cut?
What made Panache better? Well, for starters, they use brioche. Then amazing local maple syrup, chopped almonds, and fresh local strawberries and orange slices. I would say that the 9-hour drive just for the French Toast is worth it!
Onward and upward…
Anywhere you suggest that I try next?
Related Posts
Toronto auto-show (post-mortum)The Toronto Maple Leafs
Colours of fall
Mac “swirly ball of death” seen on Family Guy
60,000km
Wow! What a tremendous show of support for such a great cause. Because of your donations, my original goal was completely destroyed! I’ve surpassed the original $500 goal, and upped it to $750. Well, that $750 goal has come and gone, and now I’ve set a new goal, and I’m hoping that those of you who have not yet donated can help me hit the $1000 mark!
$1000 will…
- teach 25 families how to save a life with CPR;
- teach 30 classrooms of children the foundation for heart-healthy living with the HeartSmart Kids program;
- administer 2 Automated External Defibrillator training courses that could save lives; or
- equip a doctor with a blood pressure monitor to help keep patients healthy.
Please have your donation completed on this Sunday (June 5) as I’m doing the ride on June 6.
To sponsor me, please visit: http://davidpisarek.com/bigbike/
(This page is a redirect that will forward you to the secure donation page)
If you’ve already donated, I just want you to know how much I appreciate it. Those of you who have not donated, it’s not too late. In either event, please pass this on to everyone you know.
Remember, donations over $10 will receive a tax receipt.
Thank you so much for your amazing response!
Related Posts
The BIG bikeKeep the donations coming in! Today is the last day!
Big win, now at 50
Playoffs round 2, game 1
So, walking around today I took a few more pics that I liked and wanted to share.
Enjoy.
-
- A photo of Rice Lake.
-
- A house up in the Kawartha area
Related Posts
Colours of fallLanscaping, nearly completed
iPhone ringtones from any MP3
macbook pro as a primary (part 2)
Celebrity look-a-likes
Autumn is in the air, and then in my lens.
Here are some photos from earlier today.
-
- Autumn 1
-
- Autumn 2
Related Posts
More fall picturesLanscaping, nearly completed
My photography is going into a gallery!
I’ve just launched the first public beta of http://www.davidpisarek.com (v8).
I’ve streamlined the design, and refocused the site to reflect more of my photography.
Please take a look around the site, and let me know if you experience problems with anything, or if you notice anything strange.
I would really appreciate if you can test the site by resizing your browser, trying different browsers, etc. 
Related Posts
Website v7.0 is now liveLive CSS editing for IE and FF at the same time
The “condo cam” is live and online!
George W. Bush – live address to the nation
What are the benefits of SEO?
I’ve been working on the blog a bit in the background – some functional and technical things that I wanted to change, and have slowly been resolving.
One of the items on my list has been to figure out a way to get my automated Twitter “life stream” hidden from the blog homepage. I figure, if someone wants to see my Twitter posts, they’ll either look at my Twitter page, or look at the Twitter category in my blog. I think it’s more important to showcase and highlight my actual posts instead. Plus, on my homepage I have the most recent tweets displayed.
I was going to script something to do it, but instead I came across the plugin “Simply Exclude” by CodeHooligans.
I’m quite impressed. After installing the plugin, within 1-minute I had the Twitter category removed from my homepage. No coding or scripting needed!
The only glitch is that if you tag a post in multiple categories, and one of those categories is excluded, it too will come off the homepage. Maybe this is something that will be fixed in the next version.
Related Posts
WordPress 3.3 “Sonny” upgradeiOS4 for iPhone 3G isn’t all that great
Who are you calling a twit?
Another award under my belt from the CCAE
I’ve been meaning to post this for a couple of weeks, and I’m just getting around to it.
I did something interesting with my website. I took a look at my stats, and created a neat-looking word cloud, based on the keywords that people enter in search engines to get to my website.
It’s quite interesting to see.
dmpP website word cloud for 2009
Related Posts
Rogers website is ‘busted’Website v7.0 is now live
2010 is coming to an end
2009 baseball season closer
New website design is launched
