Introducing: R&D, Chinatown’s new Alvin Leung and Eric Chong co-production

20 thoughts on “Introducing: R&D, Chinatown’s new Alvin Leung and Eric Chong co-production”

1. West: 76
   East: 4

2. Get a life.

3. C.M., I think you should heed your own advice. Your childish comment says more about you than anyone else.

4. you wasted energy to say nothing? darren is actually posting something that some are finding interesting, or at least amusing. you on the other hand…

5. Toronto Life is narrow in its work and has a reputation for pandering to certain areas. Darren is proving that. Why does that bother you C.M.? And don’t you have something a little less cliched and hollow than ‘Get a life’?

6. I’m beginning to think that Darren is completely incapable of communicating in English. He never responds when others question why he simply just adds this stat to every restaurant listing here. He just gets his goons to defend his actions for him as those below. Yes, TL is biased toward the west end. We get it. Why not offer suggestions to restaurants that you think should be included in the magazine?.

7. Kk.

8. K.

9. Ok.

10. how many times do you need the same thing explained to you? why do you need darren to do anything more than what he IS doing? you keep droning on, this same complaint which is somewhat ironic because your complaint is that he keeps doing the same thing? why is a simple stat such a hardship in your life? and how do you come to the conclusion that anyone who disagrees with your petty whining are his “goons”? even you agree that tl is biased towards the west. maybe keeping it simple will get them to open their eyes to something? but i guess you’d prefer others to do all the work for them so they continue to not bother putting any effort in.

11. You sound like an idiot drama queen. Gets his goons to defend his actions? For one, how do you figure he gets people to do anything? And two: You say people defend his actions as though he’s perpetrating some big crime. I don’t understand what your big complaint is. And apparently this is a routine you do a lot?

12. goons! too funny. i like when trolls call other people names.

13. hey two cents, didn’t you ramble on a couple of times about how the east has nothing to offer, that it’s uninspired, not worth writing about. and then did a 180 the very same day? why do you need darren’s attention so bad? we get it: you don’t like that he’s not doing toronto life’s job for them. get over it and stop pretending it hasn’t been explained to you. there mere fact that you get so upset about him not saying anything is all the more reason to continue it.

14. There’s nothing better than getting in someone’s head. And he did it with nothing more than numbers. My No Sense is getting owned.

15. And for the record, a big story about Descendant Pizza opening in Leslieville soon. Big enough for Now and BlogTO and many others. But on that same day, and 2 days after, Toronto Life was still focused on Queen West. And Queen West. And Queen West. I like seeing the stat and find it fascinating that there’s THAT much of a disparity. We all knew it but to actually see it just in numbers is very funny. I’m with others, I don’t get why you get so pissy about it.

16. Funny, but when I noticed there were 15 comments already about this article, I thought at least a few of them would relate, you know, to the restaurant? Silly me.
    In the interests of getting on topic, I think this is a neat concept, and it says something for Alvin’s belief in his “Masterchef protégé” that he’s been front and centre putting his name on this new restaurant, given his reputation and Eric’s general lack of “pedigree” as a chef. I wish Eric great success and hope to get the chance to try it out soon.

17. you know what sucks ?
    having a severe shellfish + fish allergy.
    good luck with your new venture !

18. hear, hear.

19. Congratulations to Eric & Alvin for their co-production R&D Restaurant. I cant wait to dine & absolutely will recommend this to my family & friends.
    I wish them much success.

    CHEERS!!

20. “Judy”, until you can prove to me that you (and a few other Darren defenders conveniently using aliases) aren’t just Darren yourself, conversation over. If ‘Darren’ even is the pest’s real name.

    To everyone else: just look at this Darren piece of work’s profile and how willing he is to engage in snarky, combative exchanges on countless other posts… yet never to address criticism of his stats. However there is always conveniently a whole fleet of the same phantom accounts who DO chime in… every single time out. In a remarkably identical tone and sharply critical manner as to each other and to him in his other posts. And the only time they ever do seem to show up on Toronto Life forums is to defend their man. Seriously, NOWHERE else on here. Always to voraciously stand behind the stat of an absolute online stranger… again, every single time out. Interesting!

    So anyway, that’s that. You can draw your own conclusions.

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