Another stay-cation

Our cat with special medical issues is keeping us home for yet another stay-cation this year.  This week we've focused on nice lunches out as our different-from-normal-life routine.  

Our first stop last Saturday is one of my favourite sushi restaurants in Oakville - very small with friendly owners and yummy food.  It is called Kenki Sushi (Kerr Street) and, in addition to very good sushi and sashimi, they make a crispy salmon concoction that is perfect.  Their bento box lunches don't seem to change and the service is fast so it is a great place to go on a busy-with-errands Saturday.

The next spot we tried was Colossus Greek Taverna.  I'm not normally a huge fan of Greek restaurants due to the same-ness of the ones I've tried but this place is different.  The food isn't cookie-cutter and has a little more imagination than most of the others I've tried.  My souvlaki-on-a-pita had crispy onions and the salad was more like the Greek Salads I remember from Greece.

Keeping with the sushi theme, OC's at Stoneboats, in Bronte is a sort of fusion sushi place.  Sushi but with some North American aspects - for example, one that we tried had cream cheese in it.  I'm not sure how long it has been since the change in ownership but if our experience at lunch was any indication, this restaurant should do well.  And they have the nicest patio in Oakville (which isn't saying much but it is still a nice patio).  We tried four different rolls - an avocado roll topped with mixed wild mushrooms (good but the mushrooms kept falling off), Crunchy Salmon with walnuts and avocado (yum), Haida Warrior with various fishes (also yum) and the special which I can't quite remember but it featured shrimp with the aforementioned cream cheese (yum again).

Finally, today we went to Cayuga to the Twisted Lemon.  Also a very good place.  I had a salmon wrap with so much flavour it almost overwhelmed my senses.  Very, very good.  I especially liked the little bites with drinks while we waited for lunch - fried wonton wrappers with lemon and pepper.  Difficult not to eat the whole bowl immediately.

That may be all for lunches out this week but with three days left, we may end up trying some others.  The added benefit of driving all over the place going to lunch places is that I have been able to get a bunch of knitting done on the way.  Nothing finished to show for it but at least I'm making good progress!