Comments on: Enter Fowke

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:19:45 +0000

Roger,,, obviously your source was a bit confused. She left Mon Bella, not the other way around. As for overwhelmed – by what? The lack of clientele?

Best of luck to Fowke! I look forward to seeing if he can drum up some business and hopefully make a success out of a semingly doomed location.

By: paulkamon

paulkamon — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:57:04 +0000

Okay, okay. You’re right, it’s starting to creep me out too. Back to a PR friendly pic. ;-)

But really, Brian is still pretty kick-ass even without the M-60.

By: nwyles

nwyles — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:45:10 +0000

I actually find that picture quite disturbing.

By: paulkamon

paulkamon — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:04:19 +0000

^ Yes. This recent picture was taken while Chef Fowke was in Maui on vacation where he was reluctantly drawn into a violent skirmish to liberate a bunch of hostage boogie-boarders from the New Age cabal known as the “Dolphin Triad” that was trying to seize control of the lucrative crystal trade. Within 12 minutes he had single-handedly wiped out the entire cabal, restored order to the beach, and had prepped a whole hog dinner for the locals. I hear the Luau was ‘off the hook’!

By: Barrett

Barrett — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:47:53 +0000

is that actually what he looks like without a shirt?

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:42:10 +0000

that really is a disturbing photo.

Good luck Brian

By: roger

roger — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:39:23 +0000

I heard from some who worked there that the chef (Lauren Campbell) was quite difficult and overwhelmed most nights. Despite having no experience as an exec chef and getting a fair shot at running her own kitchen, allegedly had too many ‘diva’ moments and the owner had no choice but to move quickly and concisely.

I for one applaud their move. I think the neighbourhood will enjoy having a dependable, experienced and passionate chef in a such a nice room, and in my one meal there, Brad reminded so much of a young John Bishop that I can see much hope for this new room.

Best of luck guys!

By: Fossil

Fossil — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:18:12 +0000

HKDave…. u might want to hit refresh on your browser

By: HKDave

HKDave — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:48:50 +0000

Their website is still singing the praises of Lauren Campbell.

By: Chris Brown

Chris Brown — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:51:19 +0000

What’s up with this place? Truly a location of the damned it seems. They did a nice reno, came up with an interesting small plates menu and then changed it, before anyone could try it out, for a new chef and what they said was a demand for full meals! Who asked for it ’cause the place has been dead?
I actually walked by last night and the small selection of mains featured Steak Frits -and they’re just a couple of doors down from Smoking Dog who seem to have that as their trademark.
Hopefully this time round, in this economy they’ll try to carve a niche that makes sense for the space and location.
Good luck Brian.