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VANCOUVER: Refuel

UPDATE-March 14, 2012: Refuel’s owners have sold the restaurant to Trevor Bird, who is competing in Top Chef Canada. Refuel’s chef says he will focus on his other restaurants. The timeline for the changeover is mid-May.

Every time J and I celebrate a special occasion, he asks what I want. And I always say, “Dinner.” Then [...]

September 14th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Eating / Food, Restaurants, Vancouver | 4 comments

CALGARY: CHARCUT Roast House

CHARCUT Roast House has earned a slew of accolades since it opened in March 2010 in the swanky Hotel Le Germaine downtown. It’s again in the limelight as co-chef and co-owner Connie DeSousa is currently competing on Top Chef Canada.

I have to confess, I hate the name. I dislike that it’s ALL CAPS [...]

May 21st, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Calgary, Eating / Food, Restaurants | 5 comments

CALGARY: CHARCUT alley burgers

UPDATE-July 6, 2011: CHARCUT is launching a lunch food truck to peddle the famous alley burgers. To find out where the truck will be parked around Calgary, follow updates on Twitter and Facebook. The menu will also include hand-cut duck fat-fried potatoes and poutine with Quebec cheese curds.

Some people like to complain that Calgary [...]

January 28th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Calgary, Eating / Food, Restaurants | 13 comments

CALGARY: Sharing at FARM

I can see why FARM has been an early favourite of many of my friends who live around 17th Ave SW. It’s a cozy, farmhouse-chic setup with an open kitchen and candles in mismatched teacups.

FARM is the restaurant extension of Janice Beaton Fine Cheese around the corner. So no surprise that cheese and [...]

October 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Calgary, Eating / Food, Restaurants | 4 comments

CALGARY: winebar, a sweet underground spot

Before I could get to the little crepe place on my mental list of places to try in Kensington, the basement space had closed and was papered up for months.

I didn’t think anything of it until some tidy lettering went up late this summer. “winebar,” it read in a nice sans-serif font. A good [...]

November 13th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Calgary, Eating / Food, Restaurants | 5 comments

VANCOUVER: Salt in Blood Alley

Directions are key in getting to Salt for the uninitiated. The first time I tried to find it was on a whim, guided by a vague sense that it was in some alley in Gastown. Cranky and uncaffeinated at the time, we gave up.

But I was prepared this time, having actually checked Salt’s website, [...]

October 5th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: Eating / Food, Restaurants, Vancouver | One comment