Shiso Tree Cafe

Date: November 2 2010
Location: Unit 1 - 3160 Steeles Ave E, Markham, ON L3R 3Y2


Shiso Tree Cafe is another new restaurant situated in J-town. C.C. heard from his colleagues that this restaurant served Japanese style pasta so we decide to give it a try. Their menu have 8 different selections of pasta and two of them are Japanese style.

Here is a picture of what the restaurant looks like.

Green & Fruit Tee

Shiso Tree Cafe has a selection of different organic tea.

They are $3 each. I found it a bit pricey.

House Salad

This salad comes with the pasta we ordered.

This is the first time I tried out a soy sauce based salad dressing. 

Very interesting and quite tasty.

Tarako Pasta

Pollock roe flavored spaghetti with shimeji mushrooms, nori and shiso

I can't really tasted the Pollock roe but over all it is a very tasty dish.

Wafu Pasta

Japanese shoyu (soy sauce) based spaghetti with enoki, shimeji, oyster and king oyster mushrooms.

I don't find it to have a big different as compare with the Tarako pasta despite it is $1 more than the Tarako Pasta.

Menu

Joe Maggiano

Date: March 2010

Location: 2450 Sheppard Avenue East Toronto, ON M2J 1X1

Website: www.joessteakanditalian.ca

I haven't update my blog for so long. My C.C. kept all the pictures so I didn't have a chance to a hold of them. Anyway, This time I want to share my experience with Joe Maggiano with everyone. I've been to Joe Maggiano many times. I found their food to be delicious and with a reasonable cheap price. I have tried their oysters before ($10.99 for 6). It was a very good deal and the oysters were fresh. This time my C.C. and I ordered their pasta dishes (Penne ~$14.99, and Spaghetti ~$11.99) and their homemade strawberry cheesecake ($5.99). Yum! I will definitely try their oven bake pizza next time!

Bread Sprinkled with Olive Oil and Diced Garlic

The bread was soft and it tasted very good with the olive oil and garlic

Penne with Creamy Tomato Vodka Sauce

Penne was fresh and I love the favorable tomato vodka sauce. Nicely balanced!

Spaghetti with Clams in a White Sauce

I wish the pasta has a bit more sauce because it is not as favorable as the other dishes

Strawberry Cheese Cake

This is a very delicious homemade cheese cake. Highly Recommended

The chef baked different cake everyday so make sure you ask to see if they save a slice in the fridge