Maisonneuve has a decent piece on finding good pasta in this town, high end and low.
(As a non-wheat-eater I don’t ever expect to eat resto pasta again. I make pasta dishes at home with this stuff and I can recommend it. But is there any resto here that offers pasta dishes with non-wheat noodles?)
New Yorker star writer Adam Gopnik is at heart a Montrealer, as he reveals here. He does a talk here tonight at Concordia.
He bugs me. I once phoned him up and ask him to talk about Montreal and he claimed that he didn’t remember anything about the place and wasn’t qualified to talk about it. Guess it’s a money thing.
It’s always unpleasant to find people saying very different things depending whether they think they’re on the record or off it.
Now all of a sudden that Montreal is cool again, all the traitors who fled are suddenly declaring their allegiance. Pathetic.
To be fair, a lot of folks left Montreal at a time when they couldn’t see their careers going anywhere if they didn’t. I don’t think that makes them traitors.
Villeray missed its chance to see the old Chinese hospital turned into a useful and valuable establishment. The Inuit who could’ve been staying there will be staying in Westmount instead.
The way this story is framed is so sad. Bad Villeray not wanting sick inuit, nice generous Westmount………please. The bottom line is what was being proposed for Villeray wasnt a hospital but a transit house in a residential area.Health Czar David Levine told the folks of Villeray not to worry because they would hire security guards and would include a holding area in the transit.Few hospitals I know have “holding areas”. Ask the people in lower NDG what its like to live beside a transit house. Westmounts generosity …………….sounds strange doesn’t it.
The building has always been an institution (when it’s been in use) and is on Saint-Denis, which is only partly residential along that stretch. Your implication is that borough mayor Anie Samson’s resistance to the Inuit idea was reasonable. So, can anyone tell me anecdotes about lower NDG’s transit houses?
Incidentally, any hospital has to have security. People can become violent for all kinds of reasons – physical pain, losing loved ones, being intoxicated or disoriented and, not least, being in a setting alien to them. That’s not in itself a condemnation.
I’d rather stay in Westmount than Villeray too.
I’d have to disagree with you on that. Westmount is expensive and I can’t imagine the Inuit feeling very much at home along Victoria at lunchtime.
Sorry for the belated response and I know this is a sad story at every turn,but check out Nunavimmut Internet News ,”Nunavik House “post of January 2010 . The comment thread by the Inuit served by the Transit says a lot.Also check out the article in Nunastiaq news and some of the reaction to the new Tupper street location.
A backgrounder on the film Funkytown and its portrait of late 1970s Montreal. Another review from the Toronto Star.
The two Italian characters in Funkytown were extremely badly dubbed in French. Was that only for the Quebec version (because there weren’t enough french speaking parts)? I’d like to know.
The Plateau has kept up a policy of cutting back on snow clearance and it’s saved the borough $1.5 million.
On the other hand, the borough may be facing a tax revolt from property owners angry about increased valuations and thus increased property tax.
Domenico Cotugno 13:26 on 2011/03/04 Permalink
If you eat wheat- or gluten-free pasta, there are better alternatives than rizopia. I recommend Pasta Joy brand. I find it much better than rizopia.
Also, you can still have pasta in a restaurant! Check out Zero8 restaurant on St-Denis: http://www.zero8.com. Enjoy!
Marc 07:50 on 2011/03/05 Permalink
I recommend trying spelt (épeautre) pasta, it is very good.
Kate 13:34 on 2011/03/05 Permalink
Spelt is a hexaploid species of wheat. It can make a nice pasta (imported Italian brands, expensive but good) but it’s still pretty much wheat, as is kamut.
There are a couple of Italian corn pastas that are pretty convincing replacements for wheat pasta, plus the rice pastas we’ve mentioned. These are fine but the point about my post is that (to my knowledge) you can’t get any of them as options at any Italian resto here. Home cooking is covered but now and then you want a treat.
Domenico Cotugno 10:42 on 2011/03/06 Permalink
Other than Zero8, there are 2 other restos I can recommend for wheat/gluten-free dining. The first is Ottavio restaurant (www.ottavio.ca) which has several locations, and the second is Pizza Villa (www.restaurantpizzavilla.com) which, despite its name, has no gluten-free pizza.
You should really try them out. Any of these 3 are good, though I actually prefer Ottavio or Pizza Villa for pasta since Zero8 has no cheese. Pasta is not pasta without cheese! Bon apétit!
Kate 22:36 on 2011/03/06 Permalink
Thank you!