Sometimes pricey-tasting wine doesn't have to have a big price tag, like Priorat, "the Sidney Crosby of wines."
Old cookbooks, history, and orange/almond Icebox Cookies.
If you have lots of money to spare, and would like olllld wine and rare, futuristic wine storage perks with your charity donations, how about spending tens of thousands to help the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine and getting a Porsche Design Studio wine fridge full of vintage selections date back to the '50s?
If you got to attend a celebrity dinner, would you? What if you were served a big pig's head, with eyes ready to eat, or maybe some of those wobbly red things on roosters? It was all for $295 a plate.
Did you know that dry scallops are better? The water and preservatives affect the quality, so get some dry ones and try scallops with chorizo.
Toronto restaurant reviews: Grace on College St., Swatow on Spadina, and Chinese Traditional Bun on Dundas St. West.