I’m having a Mitch Albom moment, I want to hug this restaurant as I would a mother. It’s called Sidecar and its in one of those negligible shoeboxes in the Portugese section of College which is still called Little Italy in honour of the late Johnny Lombardi.

Sidecar is a cocktail and I’ve been mulling over when I should confront cocktail creep. Wouldn’t you know it just as we get some good Canadian wines,the cocktail becomes the slug de jour. After all, gin can’t be corky and I know sadly whereof I speak - having just visited a new wine bar where I was served not one but two glasses of different corky wine in a row.

But something else catches my eye. Sidecar offers a $20 prix fixe on Tuesdays, why that’s tonight, then heart sinking a little, I see that its demo is 20s to 40s. What the heck. I slap on my blue mirrors hoping they’ll disguise the laugh lines and make tracks.   more »