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CALGARY: Cowtown Beef Shack

Beefy, beefy, yum pretty much sums up the Cowtown Beef Shack.

The Shack serves roasted AAA Angus beef from High River on big, fresh baguettes. To add to its distinctiveness is the fact it is an eight by 12 feet shed kitted out with an oven and airplane-like bathroom.

Two people, including owner Brad Johnson, take [...]

CALGARY: Steak tartare at Caesar's

When people from out of town ask me where to go for a steak, I send them to Caesar’s Steakhouse downtown with its timeless decor and tuxedoed servers. It’s debatable if it has THE best steak in town but it certainly has the most unique atmosphere.

I first blogged about Caesar’s in 2007. Since then, I’ve [...]

RICHMOND: Chef Hung Beef Noodle

Beef noodles are a humble and popular Asian dish. At first glance it’s a simple bowl of broth, noodles and stewed beef, but the quality of each is what sets amazing beef noodles apart from the rest.

Chef Hung Beef Noodle has lots of locations in Taiwan, with its first restaurant in Canada at Aberdeen Centre [...]

TURNER VALLEY: Chuckwagon Cafe

One of the prettiest drives on a sunny day is part of the Cowboy Trail between Calgary and Turner Valley/Black Diamond. It’s an even worthier trip when the end goal is the declared winner of the “search for the perfect burger.”

Last summer, Gwendolyn and her sister — for the sake of research of course [...]

CALGARY: Village Pita Bakery (Short Pants Plaza, part 4)

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 [...]

EDMONTON: TV dinners!

UPDATE: Culina continues to offer TV dinners with these updated choices for $14 each.

This doesn’t really come from my travels but it does have to do with eating and it’s my blog so I can do whatever I want. My “big-city” friends like to scoff at Edmonton, thinking it’s some sort of quaint backwater. [...]