South bay has tons of Korean restaurant, though I don’t know if any of them is truely upscale. However, there are some that are somewhat upscale (at least price wise). You can check my review on Blue Stone in the link below....

Toronto (assuming you’re staying in a downtown hotel): European Fancy Restaurant: Nota Bene, 180 Queen @University Ave. Chinese Fancy Restaurant: Lai Wah Heen, 108 Chestnut (btwn University & Bay) Public Market: St. Lawrence...

in a stone (metal?) pot was at the 24-hour Korean restaurant on Lawrence, but I have not been back since they reopened from a lengthy (over a year) hiatus. Enjoy, Gary So Gong Dong Tofu House 3307 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. Chicago, IL...

there is a place that grows and sells lavender just outside Niagara-on-the-Lake, on the Niagara Stone Road, near Southbrook Vinyards but on the other side of the road.

the all-night place on Lawrence may well be the cleverly named “Korean Restaurant” on Lawrence and Washtenaw. If you go again, get the bibimbop in a hot stone bowl. it’s so good, I never order anything else when...

, I’ve always relished the possibility that I would be named best man for a wedding in Chicago so I could put something together on Lawrence Avenue. Another interesting day might involve the Chicago branch of Scores, in...

in Chicago nearly a quarter of a century, other than the South-Side provincial excuse of living a stone’s throw from Gladys’s). Both have the distinction of proprietors who treated us like guests in their home kitchens....

There is at least one place that I know of that does tteok-bo-ssam in the Bay Area. I think the restaurant is called "Blue Stones" (or cheong-gi-wa) at 3530 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA. It’s on El Camino Real and...

There’s a very good Chinese takeout/delivery on Royal York south of Lawrence. It’s called Mayflower... Open late too....

Kinda sad, really. I wandered though the north and south St Lawrence. Found lots of Bob’s Red Mill, another brand called Indigo. As far as I can tell Rube’s get it’s stuff from a mill in Scarborough. In the...

dried fava beans to snack on ($2.25 for a tiny bag, yowch). There was a Syrian food place next door which was closed. Crossed the street to go up Lawrence and found the Qinng-dao tearoom which I’d heard about but never...

, and then head north on Kedzie to Lawrence with the idea of hitting an Assyrian place and/or something Korean. From here, we will head back south. Ms. VI really, really wants to fit in River Kwai, but we might have to head...

Well not just frozen yogurt, and a chain not an independant, but I am a fan of Cold Stone Creamery which has started to open up many locations around Chicago (and suburbs). They make all of their ice creams, sorbets, and a few...

It’s one of my favourite Korean restaurants (assuming you mean Koryo wooden charcoal BBQ on 44th+Telegraph). Lots and lots of barbecued meat, seafood+kimchi hot pots, stone pot rice, etc. Some dishes they will cook for you...

to prettier areas (Plymouth was my main other thought), we chose lovely Lawrence. Unfortunately, I wasn’t taken as much with their dogs as hiddenboston was. I really thought that frying them in oil was gonna add someothing,...