I love the nostalgia!

I love the flowers in general..well if they are on darker background I'm in heaven . I tried to analyze it and remembered that was a design on the dress of one of my dolls. black dress with flowers on it. lol. some things get really imprinted...

It seems a little odd to me with the tile and that kind of flooring, perhaps more suitable with painted wood. I'm afraid I passed the chintz stage in the 90's.

I can always appreciate chintz, have always loved it. Chintz and toile are the fabric loves in my mind.

I didn't realize that stuff was tied to the 90s but in retrospect it makes sense. :)

I like those papers. They don't seem terribly dated to me. The colors somewhat but not too much...

..can somebody explain to me how chintz is different from other florals? I try to understand the difference for quite some time already..i see the word a lot but obviously don't fully grasp it

(yes, I think I even checked Wikipedia))

I believe it has something to do with how the fabric is finished. Chintz should have a bit of a sheen to it, I think.

thank you! at last:)

I think for it to look more intentional, id have used something very modern (maybe the sink) for contrast

April I know that chintz inspired patterns are found on tableware and wallpaper as well as fabric. I don’t really know if these two patterns count, maybe the floral has to look quite Asian or Indian to count?

I kind of like that they used old fashioned mirrors and fixtures alhough I agree that the tile isn’t right. I guess if you wanted to place it in the 90s a square white tile would be better! And maybe rose carpet on the floor… Ha ha!

The restaurant was very good and the rest of the decor was quite stripped down while still feeling pretty warm, which is my favourite combo. It’s not a French restaurant but the decor was a little...I don’t know, you can tell me. Something about it felt almost a little Parisian to me or maybe just stripped down in a particularly rural Nova Scotian way.

From a local newspaper article about the restaurant…

I like it a lot. I think whoever designed this space knew what he was doing. If he wanted a bit of "wut?" it was very intentional. The food seems delicious..I'm sure was delicious as well..:)

thank you for sharing Robo, I really enjoyed it. I'd love to spend an evening there too.

It’s pretty much all seafood. My husband had tuna tartare (great) and tuna toast (amazing). Charred sourdough bread with a tuna slurry and a slice of fontina melted on top. Had a selection of local oysters as well. mine was branzino with dandelion greens, tomatoes and olives.

I love the florals!

The meals sound delicious too. It would have been hard for me to watch my husband eat some of my favorite foods while I could not :-(

I'd choose branzino as well:) I don't eat seafood. And bread lol. And plenty of other things. I'm usually fine..have a rare gift of choosing the best meal in the menu too..from what I'm allowed to eat of course.

(My husband, on the other hand, eats everything, and feels very sorry for me..he thinks I suffer..while I truly don't. Especially not with things I don't eat as a choice. Health restrictions are a tad harder..well it's easy to get used to. I noticed that people always think that whatever other person is not eating is harder to bear, My son can't have dairy-any dairy-and I'm like "poor boy!" but he's doing fine. While I can't have gluten and I'm doing fine, and he's like "Poor Mom!" That's actually pretty funny,)

Rita… Although I’m pregnant, a lot of the rules and restrictions have been relaxed now and it seems you can eat almost anything these days! Including deli meats, sushi (except salmon) and soft cheeses as long as the latter have been pasteurized. However I am very prone to food poisoning because I typically will eat just about anything, so I have been a little more careful than usual. Plus I have crazy heartburn that is only just under control with extra strength Zantac so I am trying to avoid spicy and rich foods as much as possible.

Wow, that is so cool, Robo. I am so sorry about the heart burn, though. You are almost done baking baby-Robo ...

Robo, why salmon? I always thought it's tuna that should be avoided?.. Or is it something with salmon they found lately? Because I noticed they started being medium rare on salmon in restaurants that ends up being medium..less soft that I prefer..and a waiter will usually say right away that's how they prepare it now. I noticed this several months ago, it wasn't always like that.

(I love salmon so that was a blow for me. Dishes are just not the same)

(wow this thread is really making me hungry now))

Fresh salmon can contain small parasitic worms that can cause some problems unless it has been flash frozen or cooked. Even then a lot of salmon used in sushi has been flash frozen but I don’t know how to tell which is which. Tuna is OK in small quantities but does have mercury.

I’m with you, I prefer everything as rare as possible and it was weird to adjust my habits for pregnancy – – in fact I didn’t really adjust them that much.

Very pretty decor and food. I'm intrigued by the tuna toast and wonder if you can say more about the "slurry".

Well color me surprised but apparently tonnato is NOT just another word for tuna and actually means a sauce with tuna, anchovies, lemon juice, olive oil, and mayonnaise (and sometimes capers), blitzed in food processor. so it was that on sourdough with a slice of fontina on top.

Nice Italian twist on a tuna melt, thank you!

Tonnato is traditionally served with veal. It is one of my favorite dishes.

The tuna is in the sauce on top of the veal. The dish is called vitello tonnato.

SO glad I was pregnant for the first time 48 years ago, 46 for the 2nd ! The only thing we were not to do was take aspirin - we were told me might bleed-out on the delivery room table. At that time, "drink in moderation" was the guideline. But "moderation" in the late 60's/early 70's was a couple of drinks before dinner, a couple of glasses of wine with dinner, and a couple of after dinner drinks after dinner! Geeze! Why we all weren't picked up on DUI's is amazing to me today! I'd pass out cold with that much booze in me! But that was considered "social, moderate drinking" at that time. Of course, men also were still having 2-martini lunches...

Drinking during pregnancy is maybe a little less...bad than the cdc would have you think. Most of the evidence stating “no amount is safe” has come out of one very biased researcher in the US and there’s not a lot of evidence of harm from moderate drinking. You have to be kinda trying to give your kid FAS. That said I didn’t want to drink at all during my pregnancy (and had the heartburn to prevent it), but had I wanted a glass of wine I wouldn’t have hesitated.

http://blogs.bmj.com/bmjopen/2017/09/11/evidence-for-potential-harms-of-light-drinking-in-pregnancy-surprisingly-limited/

When I was pregnant for a first time I obviously read a lot of literature..:) From allover the world-whatever I could find in a local library basically. What was amusing is how some guidelines and advices were different from country to country

so. while USA and Israeli literature on the subject were in favor of moderate drinking..like one glass of red wine is fine..books from Russia and France for example were very srict in that regard. They were like "Absolutely not!"

I think they maybe had in mind national character or something..:) Like, they had probably this idea that in different countries "moderate" will be interpreted differently..

There is a lot of interesting pregnancy and early childhood advice out there with varying levels of absoluteness (not my best word choice.) It's a feminist issue for me.