Cheapy Tuesdays! I don’t know about you, but I always thought that Tuesdays are the worst day of the week. It is still the beginning of the week and has not yet passed the halfway mark. Tuesdays just make the week seem so much longer! There are of course Cheapy Tuesdays at the movies which makes this day of the week seem a little bit more exciting but I would prefer to spend my Tuesday night with my girlfriend catching up about what we did on the weekend and bitching about our long week ahead over a nice bottle of wine to take off the edge. This is exactly what I did last Tuesday! It just so happens that my good friend Heather and I found out a couple of months ago that Restaurant L’Academie offers 10$ pasta and mussels Sunday through Wednesday evenings!  Well it used to be 10$ anyways, they did hike up their prices to 11, 95$, however your meal does come with soup or salad so I still see it as a good deal considering its byow.  There are many byow  French/Italian restaurants downtown that offer far better selection and taste, however, when I am looking for a good, midweek, last minute restaurant, this is a good dining option. Both my friend Heather and I work in the city, so we meet at the SAQ in the faubourg, pick up a bottle each (no judgment- I did say Tuesdays are quite the brutal day, one bottle is simply not enough) and walk over to l’academie on crescent street. No Hassle! Heather is going through a red phase, so I picked up a bottle of white for myself.

C’est la vie- a French fruity chardonnay/sauvignion wine. A few of my friends always buy the red equivalent and love it. It happened to come in white so I decided to give it a try. Let me tell you, the sweet, fruity taste of the wine paired with my tortellini rose was a great combination. I managed to polish off both very nicely. It was a very giggly evening. And of course what’s a Tuesday night without a movie. Long story short we somehow ended our evening in lovely Lasalle watching the Muppet movie. That story is for another blog another time.   I highly recommend this  byow (Bring Your own Wine) dinner+movie combination to any girl looking for some female bonding time. It definitely livens up your week a little bit. Even if you have an early morning the next day, it would have all been worth it and you will be laughing about the drunk stupidities you and your girlfriend talked about after finishing a bottle of wine each.  On another note, I will be going to Bombay Mahal this Thursday night with some friends and bringing a newbie with me ) It shall be a delightful Bombay/Barefoot evening! Love you all… Alex! xo