Cold Front

It's a pretty cool. if monochromatic, view from the solarium right now. There's a cold front moving through. The temperature has dropped 4C in the last 45 minutes. There's a 60km/hr wind gusting up to 90 km/hr blowing from the SW. Dark clouds are scudding across the harbour and the islands with clear skies away in the direction of Burlington. All the ice in the harbour has been driven into the north east corner leaving the rest ice free. It really is quite impressive.

Globe Bistro

Brunch today with lemur_catta and pigsnout000 at Globe Bistro. It's located at Broadview and Danforth so it's just a short streetcar ride for us which was nice given the weird weather. It was very good indeed. They gave us free taster size smoothies while we were looking at the menus. The coffee was very good. The food was excellent in concept and execution. I had the "Fry Up" which was yer classic of the kind with bacon, sausage, black pudding, beans, mushrooms, tomatoes, eggs, champ and toast. Every component was damn near perfect. The toast was a lovely sourdough, the beans were homemade and delicious, the bacon was from Cumbrae, the sausage and black pudding exemplary. Even the grilled tomatoes were good and I don't like grilled tomatoes! The lemur had chestnut pancakes with apple compote and a spiced up creme fraiche. They were delicious. D had a bacon melt made with the same sourdough as my toast. It came with excellent potato salad and green salad. Nothing was complicated but it was all very carefully done and beautifully presented. It's also a very nice room and the service was excellent. The bill, with tax and tip, came to $63. I can see us trying it for dinner in the not too distant future.