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221. Pastrami & Montreal Smoked Meat ft. Eric Silver!

This week, host Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and special guest Eric Silver (@el_silvero) talk about Pastrami and Montreal Smoked Meat! What’s the difference between these two beautiful staples of the North American Jewish Deli? What link do they have to a common ancestor? Why is Smoked Meat just called Smoked Meat? And what happens when lamb chops, apples, and nutritional yeast find their way into the Random Meal Generator? Thanks be to Nooch.

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217. Smash Burgers ft. Justin Bragg from Le Jus!

This week, host Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) talks to Justin Bragg from Le Jus (@lejus_mtl) about bringing his delicious smash burgers to NDG, his love of diner culture, filipino food, and putting mashed potatoes on a sandwich! Then, we see what happens when brisket, rutabaga, and balsamic vinegar find their way into the Random Meal Generator!

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Introducing: The No Bad Food Recommended Restaurant List!

This week, host Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) introduces the newest project from the No Bad Food team: The NBF Recommended Restaurant List! We’re looking for your favorite Montreal restaurants, and will feature 20 of them on our list before the end of 2025! The goal is to help highlight and lift up some of the awesome food our city has to offer, regardless of Michelin status.

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115. Tom Turns Thirty!

This week, hosts Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) celebrate Tom’s latest milestone birthday by digging into some of their favorite foods of all time. We talk powdered donuts, cheesy bread, calamari, schnitzel, sushi, bagels, and more!

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Pasta Fest MTL 2023 ft. Mathieu Fortin

This week, host Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) calls up Mathieu Fortin (@pizzamath), creator of Pasta Fest MTL (@pastfestmtl), to get the scoop on this year’s PastaFest lineup! We also get into Mathieu’s recent trip to the Las Vegas Pizza Expo, and hear about the slice of pizza that changed his life. This year’s PastaFest is May 11th-24th! Head to www.pastafestmtl.com for all the info!

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114 – Top 5 Canadian Foods

What even is “Canadian” food anyway?
There are many mixed emotions releasing this episode today. On one hand, we originally recorded this to “celebrate” Canada as we have in the past. On the other hand, with recent news and the further evidence of how Canada has mistreated our Indigenous Communities it’s difficult to feel very patriotic. With that said, we have included resources in our show notes to resources and charities so you can help educate yourself as well as give back to some incredible Indigenous causes.

Ultimately, we decided to release today’s episode anyways. Today’s episode centres more around food than Canada and our guests today would be the first to tell you that they don’t celebrate Canada day. So join Tuong and The Upford Network/Natural Toonie’s  Tom Zalatnai, Alexander Smith, and David Hall as they try to figure out what is “Canadian Food” and make a Top 5 list from it!

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E44 – “Feels Like Today” Plays Softly (Smallville, Ben Konop, The Matrix)

On this episode of The Improv Punch Up, we have the Valiant Vinny Francois! This week we see a romantically tense race between Superman and The Flash, we learn that sometimes the people booing you are the ones supporting you the most, and we see why The Matrix should have been set in a high school.

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30 – 2nd Annual Top 5 Ways to…(According to Improvisors)

Yes and…we’ll do this episode for a second year in a row!

Welcome to the second year of a THREE in ONE Ranked episode where we put 15 improv groups on the spot from the Ottawa Improv Festival 2018 to weigh in on three questions that only improvisors can answer! Join Tuong La and co-host wannabes Angus MacDonald, Leslie Cserepy while we make a Top 5 and RANK other people’s answers! Also we get a surprise visit from an old “friend” of the show from Marvel’s hit Netflix show Daredevil…

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