I never assume that it’s OK to bring a toddler to a restaurant. Not just for our convenience, but also for the business. It certainly isn’t fair to drag a kid to a tiny cafe and blame the business for only having high backless stools, or to a swish bistro and expect them to put [...]
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The iconic neon piggy on West Hastings in Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside stood among the big red Woodward’s W as one of the most recognizable signs of my childhood. I was keenly interested to read about the efforts of restaurateurs Mark and Nico Bran to reopen the butcher shop and diner (which closed in [...] It took me a few weeks of frequenting the Real Canadian Superstore in Richmond before I realized there are businesses on the ground floor, with their entrances facing the covered parkade. Paul’s Kitchen does Hong Kong cafe, Chinese comfort food. It’s super cheap. Those are the two things you need to know, because it doesn’t look [...]
When we visited my sister in Toronto, J happened to be on a diet of no gluten, no sugar, and no yeast. She miraculously found a fantastic place for lunch that fit that bill called Zocalo. We thought it was a short walk from her place. But it was one of those stinky, humid Toronto [...] Sometimes you just need a dependable, convenient and inexpensive place for lunch. Chez Faye Cafe fits that bill in Yaletown, right beside the Roundhouse SkyTrain station. It serves breakfast, coffee, sandwiches, pasta and a handful of Korean and Japanese dishes, for under $9. My bulgogi box ($8.95) had a serving of beef, rice, simple green [...] I love breakfast/brunch. I hate lineups. Red Wagon Cafe is lined up to the yazoo on weekends. Solution: go during the weekday. The cafe feels like it’s been in the neighbourhood forever with a loyal, local clientele and suitably old yet funky looking decor. It’s half true. Red Wagon opened last year, but took over [...]
Sometimes I just want food that’s straight-forward, fast and cheap. For years, the Lido Cafe has fit the no-frills bill. It reminds me of places we used to frequent when I was a university student, especially with its $6.95 full breakfast. The Lido’s faded neon sign and table jukeboxes have withstood the test of [...]
Wake Bistro has opened up where Fiasco Gelato used to be in Kensington. It focuses on breakfast and lunch which is pretty smart in an area dominated by pub food. The menu is short and manageable with mostly things in between bread, soup and daily dessert specials. On weekends, it expands to include omelettes and [...] |
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