Dinner & a Haircut?

/ shellerina

Not in that order!

The priorities:

1) clear Canadian Customs and get our “Number”

2) Pay for our slip + get the “secret codes”, (showers, laundry, dock gates, WiFi, etc.)

3) Get Ray a haircut!!!

Before pic:

Shelly calls it my Brillo Pad.

After pic:

Damn I look good!

We loved our visit with Chelsea (the entrepreneur/proprietor and licensed cosmetologist from Paris France (I believe)) and Lena (the barber we know for sure is from Cuba),

They can be found here at this place, a very short walk from the docks at Consolidation Basin Marina in Kingston ON.

They told me Lena’s schedule was full. But then I told them I just travelled all the way from Florida -by boat- to get a haircut here! So, Lena fit me in!

His “business name” is Fades Jimenez. So if you see that in your Google search, this is the place to find him. ((He did not seem to object to gettin US$ cash instead of Canadian bills for his fee+tip.))

As busy as they are, their rates are reasonable. “You just gotta get lucky like me, or get on their schedule!” ((Kinda like marina reservations.))

86 Brock Street, Kingston ON
Chelsea with one of her many good-spirited customers, and me of course… before my “job” got done.

4). Then dinner!

Newly-groomed-Ray and Shelly started walking “back to the boat to fix dinner.”

Good luck with that … here in this town. There are really great restaurants within every block and at every corner. We didn’t get very far.

Observably, TANGO Nuevo was the place getting the most foot traffic. Yet there was no wait! This young couple (above) live locally and come here “all the time.”(They agreed to have me use this pic for our blog.) We gave them one of our Looper cards for free. (I won’t say what we normally charge.). The woman looked at it and instantly spouted out the correct pronunciation of our last name (Sirois) en Francaise! (With rolling R: SeeRR-Wah)

Dinner here was delectable. Shelly and I focused on the seafood section of their diverse menu: Harissa Coconut Curry PEI Muscles, Thai Curry Cod, and gourmet garnished Octopus. All had 3 different and fantastic sauces which complemented the medley of garnishes masterfully selected by the chef for each of these proteins.

It is very easy to over-cook calamari and octopus making it rubbery. Not at this place! They did it perfectly so it was soft and melted on the tongue!

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