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Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Inaugural ‘Springle! At Keller Station' brings people out to Donovan Park
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Springle! At Keller Station is supposed to be just like Kringle! At Keller Station, but in the spring. The event brought hundreds of people to Keller Station in Peoria to shop local businesses, eat at food trucks, and even talk with the Peoria Police Department. Danielle Laroche owns Lost Art in Keller Station and helped organize the event. She said after the success of the Christmas event, a springtime or summer version was highly requested 'First-time events are always a little bit hard, just because no one's aware of it. But, as it generates, kind of like Kringle!, we foresee this to become a big thing,' said Laroche. More than thirty local businesses and resources were set up in the parking lot of Keller Station. Kringle! At Keller Station was the inspiration behind Springle! At Keller Station. Kringle! is a Christmas event that brings out local small businesses, resources and even Santa Claus. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Ottawa Citizen
24-04-2025
- Ottawa Citizen
Hum: Caméline in Vieux-Hull indulges a passion for creative pasta
Article content Grilled white asparagus ($23), bolstered with guanciale, grated egg yolk and tarragon aioli, felt like a high-in-umami delicacy. Article content We then shared three of the menu's four pasta dishes. Article content Skewing sweet were the agnolotti filled with roasted beet and house-made ricotta, adorned with stracciatella di bufala (the delicate Italian buffalo-milk cheese), orange honey and poppy seeds ($29). On a plate of toothsome tagliatelle verde ($33), earthy wild mushrooms, black garlic and Calabrian chili were all impactful. Article content Article content Article content Carivnore that I am, I preferred the wild boar tortelletti with gremolata, well-salted kale and fried shallots ($34). But my companions had different favourites among the perfectly al dente pastas. That, of course, is a very good sign. Article content Ordering the three appealing but distinct desserts was a no-brainer. Maple gelato affogato ($12) provided the proper sweet, caffeinated jolt. A well-made slice of white chocolate and blood orange tart ($14) nailed its combination of flavours and textures. A slice of upside down banana cake with brown butter cream and ginger crumble ($15) was super-moist and comforting. Article content Article content Before dinner, cocktails ($11 to $18), such as the mix of mezcal, Aperol, lime juice and pineapple juice that I had, were interesting and well-balanced. Article content The always evolving list of privately imported wines chosen by co-owner Alexandre Régimbal includes about a dozen each of whites and reds. Currently, bottles range from $70 to $105. About 10 wines, including an orange wine and a rosé, are available by the glass. I asked someone who knows much more about wine than I do to survey the list and he called it 'an interesting list of food-friendly wines with a focus on low intervention.' Article content He also remarked that about two-thirds of the bottles are from France or Quebec, and just four are from Italy. I responded that perhaps Caméline thinks of itself as a Québécois restaurant that happens to specialize in pasta, rather than an Italian restaurant per se. Article content Later, when I spoke to Laroche and Régimbal, they said I'd hit the nail on the head. Camelina oil, as we anglophones would say, is a Quebec product, and so the restaurant's name nods to some provincial pride on the part of Laroche, Régimbal, and fellow co-owner Audrey Labelle. Article content Further to that, Laroche offered the example of a cacio e pepe pasta that he's made. His riff on that Italian classic involved Quebec cheese and dune pepper, also native to Quebec. Article content I'd like to try that dish if it ever returns to Caméline's menu. I'd also like to sit on the restaurant's back patio, which will seat about 30 when it opens in a month or so. Article content By then, it will truly be spring. Goodbye, root vegetables. Green asparagus and other seasonal delights will be available. Article content
