To all the veggies out there..
Thanks to the vegan food blog Mangiami for snapping this pic of our veggie pulled porc!
Staycation at the Dep — A Tropical Feast!
February 10, 2012 at 08:00 PM
Too broke to jet somewhere tropical this winter? No way to relax on the beach, soaking up the sun? No fear!
Our next special dinner of 2012 will transport you somewhere warmer! We will feature a Caribbean-inspired feast, complete with jerk chicken, tropical desserts, and other spicy delights. The night will be led by none other than one of our own — Jeremy Felker!
The dinner will begin promptly at 8pm on Friday, February 10. The set menu will be $20. Seating is limited, email me at natasha.pickowicz AT gmail.com to reserve your spot!
We hope to see you there!!
Brooklyn's Vegan Secret Supper comes to the Dep!
January 28, 2012 at 08:00 PM
We’re thrilled to announce that the first guest chef dinner of 2012 will feature Chef Mérida of Vegan Secret Supper, a supper club based in Brooklyn, NY and Vancouver, BC. Everything is made handmade, in-house and vegan, using only local and organic ingredients.
For her dinner at Le Pick Up, Chef Mérida will present an elegant and beautiful three-course vegan feast inspired by Quebec and the winter. We can’t wait to see what she will come up with!
For more information about Chef Mérida, please visit her website and (mouthwatering!) tumblr.
The dinner will begin promptly at 8pm on Saturday, January 28. The three-course set menu will be $30. To RSVP, please email us at natasha.pickowicz AT gmail.com. Seating is very limited, so get in touch with us soon!
We hope to see you there — vegan and non-vegans alike!
Le Pick Up on C'est le vie!
[Photo of Judith Lussier, author of Sacré Dépanneur!
Happy new year!!
To kick off 2012, we were featured on the CBC’s first installment of their Dépanneur series for the show C’est la vie. Our segment airs again tomorrow Tuesday, January 10 at 11:30am on CBC Radio One (88.5FM in
Montreal) — so tune in!
You can also stream the show on their website here.
2012's anti-diet
Here at Le Pick Up, we resolve to eat even more sugar and butter in the new year!
A visit from Acquired Taste Mag
[All photos by Chuck Ortiz]
We love this series of moody photos, taken by Chuck Ortiz, editor-in-chief of Toronto food magazine Acquired Taste. Among all of the fun things to do in Montreal, we’re stoked they made time to check out our Pork Club BBQ with Szef Bartek!
Some internet chatter
Thanks to Carly for her rad write-up of her recent brunch experience here at Le Pick Up. Hmmm, I wonder who this was about?
“All the food, in fact, was fantastic. And our server attended to us with a wonderful mix of friendliness, aggression, camp and good-natured humour. He didn’t have to work too hard though to convince us into sharing a blueberry cobbler – which is basically sugar, flour, butter, cinnamon, a whole heap of fresh berries and a generous dollop of what I think was clotted cream.”
It could only have been our one and only Joseph, no?
Full brunch report here.
DLPU at Osheaga 2011
Here’s the hut where we’re serving Veggie Pulled Porcs and other snacks at Osheaga. I know, it’s kind of hard to see, but you can always smell your way there…
When you look into the VPP Hut, the VPP Hut looks into youWe were on the news!
Aphrodite Salas from CTV news dropped by the dep this week to feature us on ‘The Sunday Bite’.
Summer is here...
…which apparently means we all start wearing pink tie dye?! Both Natashas showed up to work wearing the same outfit. Psychic sister-name vibes.
Cooling off with Powermade
Thirsty? Have you tried my favorite summer beverage, Powermade? I tried prying Penny for the top-secret recipe, but she remained mum. All I know is that this pomegranate-and-tea concoction is a killer combination of sweet, tangy, cold, and citrus. All that you would want in a summer iced beverage.
DLPU's Muffuletta in la Presse
We were very excited to be included in this week’s la Presse feature about the muffuletta!
Read the article here:
And a the history of the sandwich here:
This is our recipe – you can get the sandwich Monday to Friday over lunch, but get there early, they go fast!
Ingrédients
1 pain rond italien (comme celui de la boulangerie Marguerita, qui se vend également à l’épicerie italienne Milano)
Huile d’olive infusée aux herbes
1 t. de giardiniera (légumes marinés à l’italienne)
1 t. d’olives vertes et noires
1 poivron grillé tranché
1/3 t. d’aubergines marinées
200 g de jambon forêt-noire
200 g. de salami calabrese épicé
150 g. de fromage provolone
Préparation
Couper le pain en deux, retirer un peu de la mie et badigeonner généreusement d’huile d’olive infusée.
Empiler les ingrédients dans l’ordre suivant: giardiniera, olives, poivron grillé, aubergines, jambon, salami et fromage.
Refermer le sandwich. L’emballer bien serré dans de la pellicule plastique et laisser mariner pendant quelques heures, au réfrigérateur.
Au service, couper en pointes.
Never said about restaurant websites
Thanks for all the awesome feedback about our new-and-improved enthusiasm for our website!
…After all, we don’t want to be like these guys.
[via Mark Slutsky]
Harry Partch on Rose Petal Jam
The marriage of music and food is what the Depanneur Le Pick Up is all about.
What better to represent this colorful partnership than the eccentric American composer Harry Partch?
Now, to make some rose petal jam…
