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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Well, if you like good food and good wine, then you HAVE to like good coffee! Personally I LOVE good coffee and I have to have the beans, grind them myself. Nothing like the smell of freshly ground coffee. I have always loved good coffee….but, my real LOVE of coffee started on my first trip to Rwanda. I never knew Rwanda had good coffee, but man do they ever. You just don’t know about it for any number of reasons, but most of which is this tiny country just doesn’t have a very strong…
For Pittsburgh hockey fans the brand-new UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex is the holy grail of ice hockey training facilities. If you have an opportunity to come to #UPMC66 to play a game or tournament, you won’t be disappointed! This is the home of the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Pittsburgh Penguins Elite hockey program presented by Dick’s Sporting Goods (have to always give them a plug for their awesome support of boys’ and girls’ hockey in Pittsburgh!) What a good meal we could host in the Pittsburgh Penguins kitchen!! Check out the rink: www…
The Old Winery Restaurant (NOTL, ON) It’s set in a beautiful restored, you guessed it, old winery! Typical Italian trattoria serving what I would classify as Italian comfort food. I had the handmade ricotta gnocchi in gorgonzola cream sauce. Friends had the pizza which is baked in a wood fired oven. The selection of local wines is really good too. We had a large group which they easily accommodated us, but the bar was great too and would love to go back to this spot! HIGHLY recommend…
Olde Angel Inn (NOTL, ON) Last year the IIHF U18 World Championships was held in Buffalo, NY (only 30 minutes drive from NOTL) so on an off-day a group of us came on an “advance trip” to check out where we would spend a week this year. We stopped in for lunch at the Olde Angel Inn. Having just returned a couple months earlier from a trip to London, it warmly reminded me of a traditional English Pub with traditional English pub fare! I enjoyed the Shepherd’s Pie last year and I enjoyed it again…