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A love of shoes and fried chicken on Oscar night is just part of my friendship with Shawna who hasn’t lived in the same city as me for years. So when we do get to meet up, we look for a great restaurant where we can feast and catch up. Since she eats mostly vegan, [...]
There’s finally a bakery in Kensington again, yay! Malicher is located next to Nellie’s. There’s a handwritten sandwich board on Kensington Road advertising lunch specials and baked goods. The first thing I noticed when I walked in was a stack of what looked like flat, long donuts. It turned out to be langos, a Hungarian [...]
European Bakery and Deli is easy to miss, tucked into an apartment building on 17th Avenue S.W. I forgot to take a photo of the exterior but here’s one posted to Urbanspoon. I stumbled upon it a few years ago when I interviewed owner Shaqir Duraj for my day job. He graciously performed for the [...]
After a waffle breakfast, I had to grab something to go for lunch and somehow Gwendolyn (she’s an enabler) convinced me to get two baguettes for “research.” Ever the enablee, I chose a baguette with chicken ($8) from Manuel Latruwe, and a Perigord baguette ($10) with duck rillettes from L’Epicerie right next door. The Latruwe baguette [...]
I was craving waffles one morning so took the opportunity to try the Belgian kind I’d heard so much about at Manuel Latruwe. The bakery sells flaky croissants, fresh bread and sweet pastries at the counter. But you can also order off their short breakfast/lunch menu for eating in the cafe. I can categorize [...]
Stop No. 4 on the tour of Short Pants Plaza is Village Pita Bakery, a bakery, deli and Mediterranean grocery store which has been around since the late ’70s. They make fresh and hot pitas, which are sold in bags, and are also used in Lebanese food you don’t really get anywhere else. Village Pita [...] I have a new favourite coffee shop. The Vendome Cafe is in the Sunnyside heritage building where Heartland Cafe used to be, behind the LRT station. The owners of Teatro run it now. The Vendome has some of the friendliest staff I’ve ever met at a coffee place, even when the lineup stretches to the [...] |
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