He grilled out a small ribeye and I made him a tomato, mozzarella, basil salad. Dressed with olive oil, balsamic, s &p. For me I decided on a turkey sandwich. Multi grain bread, buttered, spread with Boursin, avocado. Lays potato chips.
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As a nosy former resident of the Okanagan, do you mind sharing what winery it was from?
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I wish for your sake I could recall! The restaurant was Ithaka, in Victoria, but I don’t recall the specific vineyard and haven’t been able to find their wine list online.
I’m from PNW on the US side of the border. My family - when I was growing up - often vacationed at Lake Okanagan (Ogo Pogo anyone?) and I have revisited several times since. The region and its abundant fruit ring true to me.
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Too hot to cook so made a sandwich on white with homegrown sliced tomatoes, Swiss cheese, CA avocado, and Best Foods Mayonnaise. No salt due to the joys of living with CKD.
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Thanks for the response!
It is a beautiful region with amazing wine and fruit.
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Gorgeous tomato.
Tostada Tuesday. Seasoned pork tenderloin, poblano pepper, onion, mole with lettuce, radishes, cotija cheese, cilantro. Esquites.
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Merci beaucoup. They’re called Purple Heartthrob.
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After a fairly late and pretty heavy lunch I wasn’t sure if I was up for yet another meal out, but we’d swung by what used to be our favorite Greek place earlier in the day (i.e. before the ginormous lunch) for 8pm, and my PIC seemed eager to go out: he gets kinda antsy when we only have a limited amount of time left here, and we’d already planned on a dinner at home today. Lastly, the nice weather was practically begging us to leave the house.
The place was srsly hopping for a Tuesday, and the person we’d made a rez with had told us that they don’t take rezzies for outside.
We arrived on time, then stood around in the restaurant for a good 5 min until someone finally seated us — inside, of course.
It took at least another 10 min for someone to take our order (drinks & food), and then we sat there for another 10 min waiting for our beers. My boo saw a 2-top open up outside, so we took our stuff and snagged it so nobody else could. It hadn’t yet been cleared of our predecessor’s debris yet, i.e. an empty wine bottle, glasses, napkins.
And we sat. And sat. The two dudes working their tushies off seemed confused, and I fully understand that it was our mistake that we didn’t alert either of them to our move outside…. but they couldn’t possibly have thought that we got up and left entirely, after already having put our order in.
One of them finally stopped by to ask if everything was alright, and we replied that the stuff still on the table wasn’t ours, and that we had moved outside, where we originally wanted to sit, anyway.
More confusion. Eventually, the stuff was taken away, and we got a new plate with ONE napkin & silverware. Nobody bothered to wipe off the table, so my PIC used a wet towelette and did it himself 
The dude with whom we ordered showed up to confirm our order once again (we’d now been at the restaurant for 45 min sans drinks). I was pretty annoyed at this point and had lost my appetite. The tarama was ok,
the tzatziki heavy on the garlic,
and the chirino souvlakia again better than the arni souvlakia, which was on the dry side. I admit I’m spoiled by my PIC’s fabulous lamb kebabs. I had a couple of pieces of each, and that was that.
We had them pack up the meat & tzatziki. When we paid, the waiter asked if we wanted an ouzo — pretty common here, just like getting a grappa/limoncello at Italian places after dinner on the house.
They brought out ONE ouzo. ONE shot glass of ouzo 
I should’ve asked whether it was for my boo or me, but at that point I was ready to just get outta there. We shared it, of course.
Looks like we’ll have to find a new favorite Greek place in Berlin. Bummer, man.
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Long time no see! How’s chefing going?
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That’s too bad about the service. Do you think they might have been understaffed? There’s one locally owned restaurant here in Ottawa that I love (locally sourced foods, very tasty dishes, pleasant staff etc.) but whenever I’ve been there it’s been on a Friday or Saturday night when the place is hopping and they have only one waiter on duty. The poor guy looks so frazzled but it’s not his fault so I put up with it.
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It’s a family-run place. They were busy. I get that. And the two guys serving were running around constantly. Our mistake for not informing them we had switched tables, although the outdoor patio isn’t all that large (it’s basically just tables on the wide sidewalk), and neither is the restaurant itself.
Maybe we took a table regulars had hoped for? I saw a guy scoping the outdoor tables before sitting down inside, but I had specifically asked for a table outside, and was told by the person who took our rez that — while they didn’t take reservations for outside, she would move us if one opened up.
The one ouzo for the two of us was just downright weird. There’s other Greek places in the vicinity we liked in the past, so we may check them out again. This one has the advantage of also being very cheap. Our bill came to maybe $45 including tip.
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The one shot of ouzo was a passive aggressive punishment for sitting at a dirty table without informing the staff, big no no 
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Right? It’s weird, we’ve been going there for many years, but perhaps not often enough for them to remember us (like other places that are ‘regular’ for us).
PA is always such a helpful way of trying to solve a situation, too 
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Love the Chili Threads, pretty plating.
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Thank you!
Nominations are open for the new Dish and Cuisine of the Quarter:
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