Tag: Brittany Levett

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Food & Wine | Papilles Pop-Up Wine Bar Launch Event

Last Tuesday my boyfriend and I attended the launch event for Papilles pop-up wine bar. For one month the old street cafe; Papilles at the Brew, becomes a wine bar at night. Owned by husband and wife team Anne Roque and Jonathan Dupont, Papilles offers guests Frapas (French tapas) and various types of carefully sourced and selected French wine.

Around 50% of the wine selections are available by the glass as well as 500ml carafe, which means you can sample the wide variety that Papilles has to offer.

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Food & Wine | Texture by Next Issue is now available in Canada!

I don’t read magazines very often, especially fashion ones (Sorry, Julio!) Once I’m finished I’m always left feeling fat, ugly, that all my make-up sucks (and consequently needs to be thrown out) and that I’m in desperate need of new clothes.

The same goes for Décor magazines (my apartment is ugly) Food (my dinner looks depressing) and Travel (I’m too poor to go anywhere, ever)

I think the root of this; for me at least, boils down to the advertising. The constant bombardment of aspirational clothing, housing, nourishment and lifestyle leaves me feeling insecure and distracted from the articles at hand. Which is too bad, because it took me 4x longer than it should have to read Zadie Smiths fascinating short story, Moonlit Landscape with Bridge, in the New Yorker. I couldn’t appreciate the beautiful lattice pastry in Bon Appetit because the ads for Kitchen Aid mixers made me envious (They come in Pistachio now!) and when Lena Dunham was the Vogue cover girl last year I was so body shamed by the time I got to the article that I had to read it twice. Continue reading “Food & Wine | Texture by Next Issue is now available in Canada!”

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Travel & Lifestyle | All the reasons why we love Zipcar

2015 has proven to be an incredible year of growth for us at DoTheDaniel.com! With the addition of Nicola in London and Brittany headed there in the next few weeks, we seem to be growing not only in Canada but in the UK at an exponential rate along with you all. Working with brands that we genuinely love is such an integral part of what we do. On that amazing list is of course our friends at Zipcar. Come and see all the reasons why we love working with them both personally and professionally! Continue reading “Travel & Lifestyle | All the reasons why we love Zipcar”

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Food & Wine | Our favourite summer recipes with President’s Choice

So they say today is the first day of fall, and that’s ok. But for those of you who aren’t ready to let go of the warmer months either, we’ve rounded up our favourite summer recipes with the best ingredients from President’s Choice. No matter what the time of year, you can be sure that we will be enjoying ourselves in the kitchen and are always looking forward to sharing our creations with you all. Continue reading “Food & Wine | Our favourite summer recipes with President’s Choice”