Senator all day brekkie: eggs over easy, bacon, potatoes, beans, challah toast
The Senator, Philomena, BBQ, and Dom Hemingway. Winners – Senator & Philomena. Second place – Dom; dead last – BBQ.
We set the alarm for 6:45 in the morning and tried to add a film, but just didn’t quite make it. The Senator was a great breakfast in a warren of wooden booths – I got the Senator breakfast and Mark got pancakes, and we just split everything down the middle. After, we wandered around a bit and tried to buy transit passes for the coming week – but our chipless American debit cards wouldn’t work in the machines in the subway stations so we had to find either a station with an attendant, or a convenience store that sold the passes. We found an attendant, and got the passes, eventually.
We decided that Philomena was probably our favorite movie of the fest so far. Judi Dench and Steve Coogan were a great combination.
Dom Hemingway was just a little too over the top gangsters + magic realism; might work in the hand of Elmore Leonard. But it did prove that Jude Law can play a young Michael Caine at his Cockney coarsest with aplomb.
And the BBQ at Lou Dawg’s, although tasty, and the bartender was really attentive, was just not quite the right thing for my old lady digestion, when consumed at 8:30 PM before a movie. I appreciated his frankness – “Between you & me, Lou Dawg lager is PBR”.
Toronto Transit Pass
