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2009-12-07T11:16:00.000-08:00

Building ,always building,it's like some insane compulsion,...building websites,writing music,building food,....tearing down food...mmmmmfood ,oh gotta go,back later

2009-12-04T18:32:00.000-08:00

Back again mindless tirades about life and the price of anything and the stupidity of whatever I happen to deem stoopid...sorry if you have a differing opinion but the only thing you truly own is your mind,the rest? well that's for you to figure out...it's just nice to be back....write soon for no one will read.....

2009-02-13T10:16:00.000-08:00

well Hell I quit... no one reads this blog anyhow and the only reason i ever wrote on it was to rid myself of any frustrations that i had about the restaurant industry....and there were lots...from guests that thought that each purchase in a restaurant show be some kind of gastronomique sexual experience to the slave that runs the food to the table for minimum wage and 2% of some snotty waiters tips...when even the snotty waiter didn't take anything seriously because "really I'm an Actor!!!" ....all the way to the uninspired sous chef who did what he had to do even though given free hand nothing got done...except some recreational drug use and the pillaging of the hostesses and the bar stock....after hours of course...all the way to the coke laden assistant general manager who's a really nice kid...just need to focus...and spend 10 weeks in rehab...wow if only the people that came in to eat knew....you have to wonder...out of the ten years i spent completly stoned on pot ...and i mean everyday( figured it out to be about 40# of consumption,personaly) who knew?EVERYBODY?I mean i can tell if one of the monkeys is fried so i have to assume all of those owners and general managers and directors of operations must have known and willingly abused all the dumbass addicts that passed through their doors just to make a lousy 10% of net to appease their greedy pockets and have the lifestyle that all the crackers couldn't afford but could fake by being in the business...hell free booze,late nights promiscuous people,free drugs,free food....but as we all know nothing is free ,is it? Don't take me the wrong way ...I've had a hell of a lot of fun getting to where i ended up and i have no regrets..there are a few days i'd rather forget but ....no shame...where do i start...????asthe 21 year old dish pig who got fired after 6 months because i started coming to work a little too wrecked or as the junior coook working for 4$ an hour and a free pizza ,until 3 am...reeking of peeled garlic and having to wear the last guys uniform even though he was smaller than me...and overtime pay....what the fuck was that?and the smoking the drinking the sex and the insane italian alcoholic chef who told me stories of escaping a pow camp in ww 2 and offering me money to off his partner by tripping him and stuffing the remains in a 650 degree oven...What the fuck was that...for years i just assumed that weird shit like that happened to everyone..but as i got older i found out that that wasn't true...i was getting an exceptional education...by attempting to play music at every opportunity and by being in the restaurant business i was being shown things on the darker side of life.....to be continued

2008-07-30T17:03:00.000-07:00

crab brulee now you think your on to something but no already been done...everthings been done so what

2008-07-23T21:42:00.000-07:00

been too long nothing to say....summer clientele like dumb fish that bump against aquarium walls bump bump bump....more food please...don't know when they're being had for a buck...I do so love them to pieces....guest in total bitch...everyone of staff tell me so,,,,smart bitch though gets good service a special attention cause no one wants to deal with the bitch...oh how i adore marco pierre white...now thats some funny shit

2008-06-19T16:59:00.000-07:00

fondue...and that's all I have for today........

2008-06-04T20:21:00.000-07:00

old bats...in their knickers oh my lord I don't know.come in at 5 for a party at 7 and start rearranging the seating so they're all freaking back to back with no access room for service.what the hell?then get indignent when they have to pass plates back and forth like they're at grandmas or at the beverly hillbillies using the pot passer crazy crazy people oh well another day in paradise

2008-05-30T10:30:00.000-07:00

ah the critic....or cricket...making annoying noises when you least want them to...okay everyone has an opinion ,but to have a well thought out or educated opinion is rare it seems....moms day for example....we were trashed on a website where a guest was not happy with what they recieved....to say so when you'rein the restaurant would be the logical thing so the establishment could possibly change your experience to something positive or at least be given a chance to make you happy.....NO...rather you go on a public format to bitch and complain that you weren't happy....no french toast for junior...well we were not offering that on the menu...you only had 21 different choices that you could have made....you are correct ...any idiot can make french toast given that you have the ingredients...I guess you're little brat would have enjoyed garlic parmesan french toast as that was the only style of bread we were using at the time...an enquiry as to whether a childrens menu was offered would have probably made your mothers day much more enjoyable..in response to your food taking time to get to you and the quality of it..well I don't think you were pleased that junior couldn't get what you thought they wanted,so we lost the battle of happiness long before it started.....if your food was cold and not to your satisfaction why in hell's half acre didn't you send it back?I'm sure we could have rectified the situation...you'd rather selfishly go home and flagelate in front of your keyboard on a blog that no one really reads about what a dreadful time you had.....in response to your fawlty towers comment...yes the menu was designed to be fast and efficient for the 250 meals that were processed in the 5 hours that the brunch menu was served....at least you didn't leave crying that the restaurant spoiled your mother's day....you probably didthat to yourself the day you and the giant monkey that you hump ,fornicated to create junior...do yourself a favour and stay home on amateur day next year...whip out the frying pan and make idiots french toast...you'll be a lot happier....new years,mothers day,valentines day are big money days...and only the people that don't dine regularly go out......as far as there being a lot of toddlers in the restaurant I would say there was maybe 15 all day and I don't recall thinking that any of them were paying the bills or buying a drink....maybe I should charge for heating up pablum...gee there's an excellent money maker...food that you bring in yourself.....so you self indulgent turd ,just like me,go to starbucks,buy a muffin order a lot fat/nofat cappucino with extra whip,put sugar in it ,feel good that you've insulted some one that worked long and hard to get where they are in life and does try everday....put on the food network,watch some pro wrestling...take the time to learn what you're talking about ,and maybe,just maybe you'll be less likely to be a flat bottomed rudderless boat sailing down the river of life smashing into the rock like english muffins that are scattered about the shores.......oh yeah one more thing it's foie gras...not foix gras you doltxoxoxoxchef posting at dinehere.ca reviews...find it yourself....restaurants don't like children...they don't drink booze.......yaddayadddayaddayyadddahey

2008-05-29T15:03:00.000-07:00

lunch the bane of all exsistance I ordered salmon/no rice why didn't i get extra vegetables....oh fug I don't know...why didn't you get extra salmon.my car didn't come with free air conditioning even though i passed on the automatic window option...are people really this stunned..guess so where in the grand scheme of the universe did we only get the intelligence gene in some and not in others or the ability to understand that a little advance notice goes a long way?why gord why?every week you yell and scream about things that should be understood.Right?like why serve the steak when you have no idea how it's cooked....moo..poor louross it's not his fault he's short and has a bad haircut....mmmmmmsweaty chef food...all about the entertainment value...oh how I hope the fat sweaty,insecure guy wins,just so he can make 250000 dollars for a one year job....who came up with precooked meat ,so more time can be spent on presentation...yuck...i don't even want to know where they use something like that....golf courses possibly

2008-05-23T18:50:00.000-07:00

eggplant puree,the bane of all existence...does food taste better if it looks better,baby food is puree and damn good puree might i add,yet when you go to higher end restaurants it seems the more processed it is the more that is charged for it...food service all of it has a process and an expectation that was set by royalty years ago....ask any chef the order of the dining utensils and you'll be told about start at the outside and work your way in per course...true or not or how the traditional food is created ....fuggers

2008-05-21T22:25:00.000-07:00

survived another mothers day....amateur day as it's known to my friends in the business....no real stupidity to talk about...the sun came out and the dining sheep followed....baaabaabaa....here have this and we'll happily overcharge you for every fart and belch that you create during your dining experience......watched ramsey again last night hoping for a change...but no...same abbrasive crap with no real point to anything that is going on...no learning curve...just some average smucks trying to land a job that they won't have a year later cause they're not really qualified...reality television would in fact be dull as hell because most peoples reality is dull as hell.....or at least very redundant...I don't think anyone would watch my day...editted to a half hour and find it exciting to the point of tuning in again next week.....hmmm maybe in cartoon format .....the posibilities are endless........oh yeah i no longer care about spelling or proper grammer or syntax.....lalalalallalalalalalalican'thearyounoramilisteningyaddayaddaydaayyyyyy

2008-04-25T16:04:00.000-07:00

rant rant rant argue with each other about semantics of food and life and never get anywhere,too busy thinking about what the hell everbody thinks and wants.....the kids in the hall skit where 2 waiters and three cooks spend 5 minutes talking about where the dipping ponds should go on a dessert platter ....i could have eaten it in that time...not hungry right now though...getting things ready for service......reservation is where W and M live....no one will ever have the same respect for what we do as a doctor or a dentist all because of education base....the old bistro should have been called chez che,due to the opinions that flew around and the anarchist point of view....the old joke was make a bomb that destroys paper and you'll rule the world...we were told to fill it out in triplicate....now if you could send signals out buggering up cell phones ,you could stop north america on a dime.......when you drive ......drive....hang up your phone.....no one REALLY wants to talk to you any way....yadda yadda hey yadda yadda ho.....

2008-04-18T17:30:00.000-07:00

blah blah blah blah blah....join the whitespot army get a red seal....see chef run see chef fly...run chef run......iron chef blah blah blah....celebritycelebrity sobriety..blah blah blah...all day long i listen to the radio.....blah blah blah,,,,,see chef runrunchef run........see the redsealchefscooklikemadallthruthelunchrushfoodfrombroccolliallbanananasalltogethernow....blahblahblah agood dose of reality is what we may be in for ....everbody wants a rock to tie a piece of string around....or a prosthetic forehead....blah blah blah.........

2008-04-15T16:26:00.000-07:00

the price of everything skyrockets and the general public remain unawhere....pay attention..food riots in egypt,phillipines,etc....food is the one thing people WILL NOT go without!screw oil,bio fuel is a joke ,it's just another reason to jack the costs of the essentials of life...water is next..it takes more water to process bio fuel and north america & europe have gotten fat and lazy off the rest of the world...a hundred years ago the middle east was worth nothing on a commodity basis ..check out Dubai...what the fuck?We make everything out of nothing and for the past 5000 years have fought over piles of dirt and about what we believe in...when there's nothing left ,what will we believe in?Elvis?because we'll be finding chunks of memorabilia that the post apocalyptic waste will leave behind for us to find!!!!rice goes up because flour goes up and the middle class will disappear,in a haze of violence and stupidity...not caring that the fat get fatter and the poor will waste away...same as it ever was,same as it ever was.......it was so easy to sell out...smile for the camera ,life got easier,the car got bigger ,the food was easier to come by..drinking is the opiate for the masses or drugs or religion or......take your pick....all day long I cook ...all day long I serve...all day long I try to survive..some one comes in and orders food and we make it the best we can and yet they complain that it's not the way they like it so it goes in the garbage...and this is just a microcosm of what happens on a daily basis in all north american restaurants...we could feed the world,but then the population goes up and the costs go up and then...over and over and over....repetitive bull crap..trained thought so you don't feel guilty when you go to sleep at night after a 10 hour day slaving away in the "rice paddies"just to make a buck so you don't go hungry or have to buy an uzi to protect yourself from any body that's trying to steal your sandwich....Wayne(where ever you are) you were wrong! There's nothing wrong with no religion ,or heaven or hell waiting at the end.....somedays it's hard to take cooking seriously .After all it's only food...............

2008-04-11T15:58:00.000-07:00

friday can't be more maddening,it's like training day in the restaurant,guests that is,because they watched iron chef last night they think that that all of a sudden they have developed a sense for what I do all freaking day.Cracked!telling my servers that something is wrong or off even though I've already tried it to make sure it's up to my standards....and then having the audacity to ask for another when they didn't enjoy the first ....what's going to change????Messiah complex....fugger

2008-04-09T16:23:00.000-07:00

aargh,now we want to make our own menu on a daily basis ,not that I've spent 25 years thinking about what I'm doing...and as you all know the guest is always correct...not!Kevin just informed me that it smells like spring outside...I'm not sure what outside looks like anymore...But all I wanted was a grilled cheese sandwich.....well if we served cheese and bread that would be easy wouldn't it?being a latin sushi restaurant with french overtones and a heavy dose of indian you would think we would stock cheddar cheese,even though it's not listed on the menu....anywhere!nor do we serve white bread......a tandoori quesadilla...quite possible ,but grilled cheese...No,nononononono......Ramsey fit.....maybe get some make up a la ken baker and disguise myself so I can find out what the staff and guests really think of me....or take a short order cook and teaach them hhow to cook risotto while screaming obscenities at the top of my lungs.......today my fish guy told me that he gave himself food poisoning...any chef worth shit has poisoned themselves many times...whether through alcohol or user friendly pickles or the magic mushroom soup that they whipped up just before saturday service....get over yourself...what tthe hell would you really care, what anyone thought anymore ,if the stars all disappeared and the ass kissing 55 year olds who can'tmake a decent mac and cheese with out the box and microwave all stopped paying homage to all the iron chefs of the world....kung fu on television had better mantra than most of the chefs who no longer practice what made them in the first place yadda yadda hey yadda yadda hoooooooooo

2008-03-25T14:33:00.000-07:00

after lunch slow ,painfully slow,tashas dermatologists receptionist is nasty,nasty woman,not polite....why...well she probably didn't have lunch....mmmmmpizza ....continued madness ,hoping for busy,get slow,hope for sun ...get rain...hope for rain get sun.....prices going through roof on anything bio diesel related....are we making food too expensive to eat?cheaper to buy beef than bread..? no carbs? every one skinny with very little brain function(look it up)does any one read these besides me? why would they?need pictures,yeah ,pictures .............

2008-03-25T10:51:00.000-07:00

tuesday am empty restaurant,not open until 12 ,nothing new,slow weekend(easter,spring break)will work on blog,maybe some pictures,maybe some ranting,maybe nothing....back later with more...who reads this anyway?

2008-03-22T12:02:00.000-07:00

Saturday,armed and ready, waiting for the masses to converge and feed.usual state of general manager talking about cost controls and where and when things could have been different for the week...it's my friday..looking forward to two days away from work...don't get me wrong, I really enjoy my work,I just wish the business aspects were less and the artistic side was all that exsisted..as my sous chef says I'm an artist and I want to be treated like one....so we cut off his ear and we don't feed him .....back tuesday......

2008-03-21T17:27:00.000-07:00

friday lunch chaos cooks cut fingers blood,nonstop,no reservations,why,with phones so available,internet websites,I'm going to see if my dentist lets me just walk in to have a cavity filled at my whim...oh I know business is what it is and you're really at the disposal of anyone who strolls in off the streets But why is there NO rhyme nor reason to this business?did mars align with the stars today and we weren't told and that's why today was so much different than yesterday?is there no predictability in the universe....oh why oh why