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CALGARY: BottleHouse pub

So once again, a restaurant occupies the doomed corner of Memorial Drive and 10th Avenue NW, where other eateries have tried and failed. This time though, I hope the BottleHouse Beer Parlour — despite the cheesy name and font — gets a chance.

First of all, the space is huge, so there’s no cramming elbow to [...]

STAR TREK: Romulan Ale

The Alberta town of Vulcan (population 1,900) knows a good thing when it sees it. It’s embraced the fact it shares the same name as Spock’s birth planet on Star Trek and turned it into arguably the area’s biggest industry.

A sign welcomes visitors in English, Klingon and Vulcan. The tourism centre is shaped [...]

ROGUE: Santa’s all hopped up

This is me in the liquor store: “Ooooh, that’s a pretty label/design.”

Salesman: “That bottle glows in the dark.”

Me: “I’ll take it.”

Rogue Ales is an Oregon company started in the late ’80s by some friends and an accountant with a penchant for home brewing.

“Rogue is a small revolution,” says its website. “The spirit of the [...]

MONCTON: Barnyard BBQ

The Pump House was one of my favourite places when I lived in Moncton. It’s a great, spacious brewpub downtown with a huge patio and lots of beer.

It now has a larger bottling brewery in the city’s north, with the Barnyard BBQ restaurant in the front. After a few wrong turns, I can [...]

CALGARY: Wings at Juliet’s Castle

You would think that at an outing of three food bloggers, there would be at least one camera ready to record the experience. Well, you would be wrong.

Patent and the Pantry, Binky Silhouette and I decided to go somewhere off the beaten track for cheap wings, landing at my suggestion of Juliet’s Castle Sports [...]

CALGARY: Wing night + punk rock bingo

I’m a big fan of chicken wings, so when JJ invited us to Broken City’s wing night, I immediately accepted.

The Tuesday wings special is a reasonable $4 per pound. The salt and pepper wings are excellent — hot, crispy and finger-licking salty. The hot wings are just OK.

But my friends, Tuesdays at Broken [...]

SAN FRANCISCO: Thirsty Bear

By our last night in San Francisco, we couldn’t bear the thought of eating more seafood, or really anything else. We were in one of those funks where we couldn’t decide what to have, but we didn’t want crap. I know, woe was us.

Jason vaguely said, “I want something casual. With beer.”

I remember lying on [...]

TORONTO: Where the boys are

Before Toronto’s smoking ban, Smokeless Joe was one of the few havens of clean air in the city. I wish I had known about it when I lived there. Not only for the air, or the 200+ different kinds of beer, but because this prime guy territory.

I don’t mean the sports-bar type variety, or [...]

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