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In honour of our larger-than-life American cousins, we hit up Perkins Family Restaurant for a Fourth of July breakfast. Perkins is a chain that started as a pancake house in Ohio, and now has 400 restaurants across the U.S. and Canada. To be honest, we didn’t really wake up and say, “Hey, it’s July 4th, [...] 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 [...] Enough has been said about Phil & Sebastian’s splendid coffee talents, but getting your sleepy hands on a cup of their lovely liquid usually meant a hot, cramped, long wait at their Calgary Farmers’ Market booth. In late November, the duo finally opened their long-awaited storefront location in Marda Loop, and it’s been packed ever since. The [...] One of my new favourite restaurants in Calgary is Fassil, a family-run Ethiopian place in the southeast. I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to get here to try their delicious stews and other dishes. If you’ve never had Ethiopian food before, here’s a quick primer. All food is served on and with injera, a [...] The Wildflower Grill is a sleek restaurant in the Matrix boutique hotel building. The downtown Edmonton establishment focuses on “new Canadian cuisine.” We went there to try the Sunday brunch (11 a.m.-2 p.m.). Everything on the menu (9 mains, 3 sandwiches, 2 salads) looked delicious and promising. A warm, buttery, crumbly cornbread muffin kicked everything off, [...]
It seems you can’t get into any decent breakfast place or diner in Calgary these days without having to line up. (Or queue up as my newly relocated friend JJ would say.) The alternative involves eating things wrapped in paper. So it was nice to find that The Main Dish — which I thought only did [...]
Doesn’t this look better than your desk?
Doesn’t this look better than a sandwich at your desk?
This definitely looks better than anything at my desk. All of the above is courtesy of Jack of Hearts Bistro, a comfortable, sunny spot in the beautifully restored heritage Lorraine Building in the Beltline. Graphics guru David [...] Did you know 40 per cent of the world’s coffee sales is in instant coffee? It’s huge in Europe and Asia, which accounts for much of the $21-billion instant sector. I’ve been in high-end hotels in China where they plunk down a jar of Sanka when you ask for coffee. There are full aisles of instant [...] |
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