1061 Autumnwood

Found this article on the web one day and was dying to try out Sweet Endings. Finally got the chance to see for myself what got ranked so high. Well it was disappointing. The chocolate cake that we had was super tall and impressive but it was dry with age. It can happen. Perhaps it was a bad week or something? Dunno.

They didn’t have any coffee though. I hear that’s weird for a dessert place… dunno.

Anyways, someone should try out the other dessert places and report back.

330 Ellice Avenue

Mohammad and I checked out this restaurant a few weeks ago. They serve Ethopian food. I had chicken with the traditional really good huge crepe like bread. Rice boy had rice and lamb. It’s a small family run restaurant. There’s a traditional seating area with small round low tables (perhaps made out of jute) with small stuffed cube chairs around it (think ottoman). There’s also normal seating in the dining area with wooden table and chairs (normal height). In a separate section, off to the side they have a bar and pool tables with a large screen tv. I’m not sure if they serve food in there or not.

I’ve had Ethopian food before and liked it and this place didn’t dissapoint either. They had this amazing crushed jalapeno sauce for the appetizer samosas. By far however the highlight and the true ethnic feature of this establishment is their coffee ceremony. They first show you the green coffee beans (did you know that they’re green and not black? I so thought that they were black. I thought you pick them from the plant/tree/bush/root/whatever black). Then they roast it in a small metal container and they bring it out to show you. Then they grind it (I didn’t hear any electronic grinding noises and we were pretty close to the kitchen so they may even do it by hand). Then they bring out the coffee in a small clay coffee pot. It’s not your normal medium double-double. You drink it in a small cup. Ethopians traditionally drink it with a little salt or butter but they’ll likely give you cream and sugar. Unfortunately I cannot drink coffee, my body rejects it with terrible force. I couldn’t resist a few sips for taste though and suffered the next day. They serve the coffee in a small wooden serving tray with handles. Along with the coffee they give a hot peice of stone that you’re supposed to spoon scented sand to ward of evil spirits. I admittedly was adding too much sand and could have inadvertently created too much smoke to perhaps almost create enough smoke to endanger the low hanging lighting above our table completely unintentionally.

The people at the restaurant were very enthusiastic to have us. Apparently the restaurant was featured on some local tv channel so the they insisted that we stay and watch the small clip before we left. The food portions are very generous and the prices are pretty low. They also feature vegan dishes.

The movie was really really good. Yes, GM paid for the movie but the product placement was tolerable. Excellent special effects, script and acting. If there’s one movie you see this entire summer I think you should either see this one or Pirates (but only see Pirates if you’ve seen the other Pirate movies).

Shia LaBeouf stars in this movie. He’s the new “it” boy. He’ll also be doing the new Indiana Jones movies.

I remember loving Transformers when I was a kid. However I forgot the whole story line and plot. I remembered names like Optimus but that was about it. It was nice catching up.