Mildred Pierce, Toronto, ON

Every summer for three weeks, 130 of Toronto's finest restaurants offer a special 3-course prix fixe menu (lunch and/or supper) ... Summerlicious! It's a great opportunity to check out restaurants you've never been to before ... and in some cases, can't usually afford to go to.

Tonight, Joe, our property manager, treated us (the condo board) to Mildred Pierce, a fancy restaurant at the end of our street. We introduced him to this restaurant a couple months ago and he loved it. Unfortunately at the last minute he couldn't make it but he said for us to go anyway and he'll pick up the tab. So we did!

Me, Anne, Joanne and Grant

I had a fennel apple salad with sunflower seeds to start. I had pictured a leafy green salad with chunks of apple. Who knew that fennel is white, looks like linguine and crunchy?! My steak and shoestring fries were good. And my lemon tart was tasty.

Mildred Pierce, Toronto, ON

Our property manager took the condo board out for supper tonight at Mildred Pierce. Mildred Pierce is an upper end restaurant at the end of our street. From the outside, it doesn't look like much. It's in a baby blue building that looks like a factory. We get stopped all the time by people looking for it because it's so hard to find. But it's quite different in the inside.

I've been there about six times since I moved to the 'hood five years ago. I always get the same thing ... roast chicken biryani and clove-scented basmati pilaf with cashews, apricots and date chutney. Very yummy! And for dessert, I had Classic Mildred Pierce profiteroles with Lindt milk chocolate ice cream drizzled with a rich dark chocolate sauce. Again, very yummy!!!