Novak to Toronto?

[keefe]

I love visiting Canada especially the province of Quebec.  I'm treated like royalty because of my last name as a member of the "first family". 

Your last name is Obama?

[mugrad99]

Toronto is nice in a bland, inoffensive way. I much prefer the audacious impertinence of Montreal. Grace Kelly was beautiful but you knew you would have a far better time with Isabelle Adjani

+100000
Two words for you:  Joe Beef

or Foie Gras poutine at Au Pied de Cochon (I know that's more than 2 words).

Toronto, to me, is more like Chicago, while Montreal is more like a combination of any large European city with a touch of New Orleans.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Your last name is Obama?

A bit more Canadien-Français.

[keefe]

A bit more Canadien-Français.

Monsieur Trudeau?

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

+100000
Two words for you:  Joe Beef

or Foie Gras poutine at Au Pied de Cochon (I know that's more than 2 words).

Toronto, to me, is more like Chicago, while Montreal is more like a combination of any large European city with a touch of New Orleans.

I would agree with this except Montreal is more French than New Orleans.  English is also widely spoken there.  Quebec City is a different story.

[keefe]

+100000
Two words for you:  Joe Beef

or Foie Gras poutine at Au Pied de Cochon (I know that's more than 2 words).

Toronto, to me, is more like Chicago, while Montreal is more like a combination of any large European city with a touch of New Orleans.

You, sir, have superb taste. I have dined there. It is not possible to capture the essence of Au Pied in jus two words. But if I were limited to just one it would be Somptueux!

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Toronto does have a lot of first gen immigrants and they have freshened the city's cultural offering for the better. I just find Montreal has always had the tawdry appeal of a woman who has lost some of her youthful allure and knows she must compensate in other ways. My great grandfather was the Bishop of Halifax and I still have family in the Maritimes. I find Canada to be exceedingly pleasant in a numbing sort of way.

Halifax is a nice little city although difficult to get to.  I enjoyed my very quiet and laid back visit to the Canadian Marintimes.  

[mugrad99]

Thanks to my wife and her fluency in French, or more precisely Quebecois, Martin Picard pulled up a chair and spent the better part of an hour at our table exchanging stories of drinking and eating around Montreal, his Sugar Shack, and what not to see and do in the city.

We try to make it back every year. I can still taste the Duck in a Can, Boudin Tart, Pig and Foie Gras Pie, Pouding chômeur...etc.

Although the Lobster Spaghetti (think a whole Lobster with a Lobster Bisque as the red sauce) at Joe Beef is close...

[swoopem]

Did anyone else frequent Windsor when they were 19 years old? I've had some good times in that dump of a city

[avid1010]

Toronto does have a lot of first gen immigrants and they have freshened the city's cultural offering for the better. I just find Montreal has always had the tawdry appeal of a woman who has lost some of her youthful allure and knows she must compensate in other ways. My great grandfather was the Bishop of Halifax and I still have family in the Maritimes. I find Canada to be exceedingly pleasant in a numbing sort of way.

blue fin tuna fishing near halifax is on my bucket list...actually planning to do the drive through toronto, ottawa, montreal, quebec city, and finally halifax with my dad before i regret not doing so. 

i had a college professor (~10 years ago for a human environmental problems course) that purchased an ocean front cottage on a credit card as the fishing village took a dive when commercial fishing (for cod i believe) went to hell.  said it was his piece of heaven for one month a year.  he knew i liked to fish so he'd show pictures of some pretty impressive catches, along with the beautiful scenery. 

[Eldon]

+100000
Two words for you:  Joe Beef

or Foie Gras poutine at Au Pied de Cochon (I know that's more than 2 words).

Toronto, to me, is more like Chicago, while Montreal is more like a combination of any large European city with a touch of New Orleans.

Funny, me and my buddies call Toronto "baby Chicago."  Montreal is definitely way more French than New Orleans.  And echoing someone else on here, Quebec City actually feels like a foreign country (as opposed to Toronto, where it feels like...well...baby Chicago).

[keefe]

Did anyone else frequent Windsor when they were 19 years old? I've had some good times in that dump of a city

When I was in Ann Arbor we did road trips over to Windsor for cheap gas and duty free CC & Molson's Golden. We would have dinner at a place called Wong's Kitchen. Windsor is to Montreal as Detroit is to Paris.

[keefe]

Thanks to my wife and her fluency in French, or more precisely Quebecois, Martin Picard pulled up a chair and spent the better part of an hour at our table exchanging stories of drinking and eating around Montreal, his Sugar Shack, and what not to see and do in the city.

We try to make it back every year. I can still taste the Duck in a Can, Boudin Tart, Pig and Foie Gras Pie, Pouding chômeur...etc.

Although the Lobster Spaghetti (think a whole Lobster with a Lobster Bisque as the red sauce) at Joe Beef is close...

I've only eaten there twice so I'm assuming Picard is the owner chef/maitre d'hôtel? The menu there is superb and we savored every morsel but it really is a coronary in the making. It is an off beat place with a vibrant, exciting offering. We were very impressed with concept and execution. My wife loved pate and foie gras so it was a real treat for her. I love foie gras because PETA doesn't.

[sailwi]

Grew up in Detroit and came to appreciate the Windsor ballet and cheap everything when the exchange rate was at .70 to the USD, can't believe the dollars are almost the same value these days.

[keefe]

blue fin tuna fishing near halifax is on my bucket list...actually planning to do the drive through toronto, ottawa, montreal, quebec city, and finally halifax with my dad before i regret not doing so. 

i had a college professor (~10 years ago for a human environmental problems course) that purchased an ocean front cottage on a credit card as the fishing village took a dive when commercial fishing (for cod i believe) went to hell.  said it was his piece of heaven for one month a year.  he knew i liked to fish so he'd show pictures of some pretty impressive catches, along with the beautiful scenery. 

My trips to Halifax have been family so I've never been fishing but obviously everything there is focused on the sea. It is a quaint place with an excellent pub culture. Best time to visit is summer with long days but bring sweaters. A worthwhile side trip is to visit Louisburg, the huge French fortress which, surprisingly, surrendered to a British-American army without having offered any real resistance. It was yet another proud moment in the storied annals of French military history. Capture of Louisburg opened up the St Lawrence to the RN and led to Wolfe's defeat of Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham below the walled city of Quebec. North America became an Anglo domain from that moment on. 

We have albacore just off the coast here in the Japanese Current. It's a couple nights in blue water and the swells are not for the squeamish. But whacking tuna is a lot of fun and they eat great.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

My trips to Halifax have been family so I've never been fishing but obviously everything there is focused on the sea. It is a quaint place with an excellent pub culture. Best time to visit is summer with long days but bring sweaters. A worthwhile side trip is to visit Louisburg, the huge French fortress which, surprisingly, surrendered to a British-American army without having offered any real resistance. It was yet another proud moment in the storied annals of French military history. Capture of Louisburg opened up the St Lawrence to the RN and led to Wolfe's defeat of Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham below the walled city of Quebec. North America became an Anglo domain from that moment on. 

We have albacore just off the coast here in the Japanese Current. It's a couple nights in blue water and the swells are not for the squeamish. But whacking tuna is a lot of fun and they eat great.

I made a visit to Louisbourg.  Impressively large and it looks like a French village.  The wife and I caught the last tour as we drove from Halifax to Sydney.  Apparently the fort had nothing to do with rest of French Canada  as everything was imported regularly from France.  The British Navy & Marines showed up and seiged the fort.  The fort walls were made of local materials that held up great against waves but turned to sand when hit by British cannonballs.  Due to the geography the French army couldn't even attempt to confront the Marines that had taken position behind the fort on land.
In Sydney we took a boat cruise around a Canadian marine sactuary called the Bird Islands and watched Atlantic Puffins fly & swim.  The next day we were on our way to PEI.

[willie warrior]

Sheesh--we have gone from a thread about Novak in Toronto to a thread about touring Montreal! Only on the internet.

[real chili 83]

Sheesh--we have gone from a thread about Novak in Toronto to a thread about touring Montreal! Only on the internet.

Nope...only on Scoop.

Next up, this thread turns into another Crean love/hatefest.

In before the lock.