What's for Dinner #121 - the End of Vacation/Start of School Shopping Month Edition - August 2025

[Phoenikia]

Splurge dinner with a friend at Martine’s Wine Bar in Toronto.

Pornstar martini

Green salad with fennel

Stuffed zucchini blossoms

Potato topped charred cabbage

Ajo Blanco

Raviolo with crab and nduja bisque. Sounded tastier than it was. Lol. The nduja overwhelmed the crab and the raviolo.

Restaurants with Patios and Good Food [Toronto]

A nice dinner at Martine’s Wine Bar tonight. [PXL_20250816_221557956.MP~3] [PXL_20250816_221613258~2] The porn star Martini [PXL_20250816_222449471~2] Very nice lettuce and fennel salad [PXL_20250816_224136553~2] Stuffed zucchini blossoms with cacio e pepe sauce. These were good. They would have been better if they had been fried in hotter oil. [PXL_20250816_232223234~2] Potato purée topping charred cabbage. We liked this. [PXL_20250816_232218254~2] Ajo Blanco. This was probably …