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Hope you had a Happy Halloween! part 2

Last Saturday, I come home from art class, and my mom says:

I want to be Gaga in the meat dress tonight!

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Thoughts in my mind:

#1 You know who Gaga is?

#2 In the meat dress?

#3 Mom you're so cool

#4 Let me call alllllll my frieeeennndss........

And that's how my Mom won the award of the coolest Mom ever among all of my friends.

unbelievable...

Hope you had a Happy Halloween!

I partied so much too much this week-end! 4 nights in a row of fun. Ahhhh.... no wonder I woke up with a cold this morning. Now, all I want is the red Christmas cups from Starbucks. Let the Christmas season begin!

 Amy Winehouse (hair pouf and 463829471 tattoos included) 

 Gaga (galaxy rocks, scar on face, platinum hair, you got it!)

 Minnie and Mickey

 pretty bat

and Minnie Mouse again!

Carlos & Pepes

My blog is making my friends fat. And broke.

Said Savvy when, after Le Fuchsia, we ended up at Carlos & Pepes.

Carlos & Pepes is a two-floor mexican extravaganza on Peel street. It competes with 3 Amigos in many ways, and I kept pointing out those differences throughout the night. The chips were warm and the salsa particularly sweet. The drinks were good, but not any different from the 3 Amigos ones. What I especially liked was the chimichanga. I had flautas, which came with a red and green house sauce (both very spicy), sour cream and guacamole. Savvy's quesadillas were big and really filling. On a whole, the experience was great but the atmosphere, the prices and the food is better at 3 Amigos. Do you agree?

mango peach margarita

lime margarita

quesadillas

chimichanga

flautas

Le Fuchsia

For more than two years I've been studying in the same building yet until today I've never set foot in the basement-level student-run restaurant Le Fuchsia. Two words: I've been blown away.

Not only is the service fantastic, but the food... When you're seated, you're given a menu with something like this: entrées (lobster bisque, tuna tartar, terrine of grilled vegetables, amongst other things of the same grandeur), then main meals (fish curry, pan fired sole, some other type of fish, duck à l'orange, lamb shank, beef in Roquefort, veal in garlic sauce, fettuccine with prosciutto, mascarpone and arugula and I think I covered it all. Dessert is tiramisu, chocolate cake, millefeuille, creme brulée...
The catch? This is only this week's menu. Beware: next week's could be better.
And here's the thing: the price is (wait for it!) at most 10.95$.
For the three course meal.
Coffee or tea included.

 tuna tartar with avocado and mango

 lobster bisque

 veal in garlic sauce with linguine

 beef in Roquefort sauce with potato puree, asparagus and vegetable ragu

 tiramisu

field berry millefeuille

My tuna entrée was exciting. Even my friend who doesn't (ever) do seafood tried it with success. I tasted her bisque and it was very salty (she didn't finish it, of course. It's seafood). When my main came, I took a bite of the veal and was instantly transported to a foreign land. A place where my mother made me ragu when I was a child, and it was juicy and chewy and it simply melted at the touch of my tongue. When I came back to myself I thought, my Monsieur will definitely like this place.

My friend's beef was as good if not better than my veal. Well cooked but still juicy, with a smooth hint of Roquefort, with heavenly warm vegetable ragu and creamy potato puree. Her tiramisu was what a tiramisu is supposed to be, unlike the dessert we pass as "tiramisu" most of the time. It tasted of fresh mascarpone cheese and was not too sweet, just perfect. My millefeuille was hard to cut (I'm slowly starting to accept that all millefeuilles are a pain to cut) but provided me spoonfulls of joy.

I think I found the best bargain in town, and all this time it was under my nose.