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VANCOUVER: Edible Canada breakfast

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 [...]

VANCOUVER: Joe's Cafe

Joe’s Cafe is an institution on the Commercial Drive strip. There’s actually a Joe. He and his brother opened the place in 1974.

Joe’s is packed during the World Cup, especially and obviously when Portugal is playing. There was a bit of misunderstanding with some lesbians in 1991 but for the most part, [...]

CHILLIWACK: Airport Coffee Shop

“I fly for pie,” says the sign in front of the Chilliwack Airport. A rhyming sign for pie? It was calling out to me, so I convinced my co-workers they HAD to stop for refreshments.

Run by three sisters, the Airport Coffee Shop is a friendly place frequented by regulars. “I fly for pie” alludes [...]

VANCOUVER: Kokopelli kid-friendly cafe

Now that I’m a parent, Kokopelli Cafe is the kind of place I wish existed in every neighborhood.

It’s a sweet cafe that bakes fresh pastries, makes healthy light meals and offers kids’ treats like macaroni and cheese, packages of Cheerios and 100% natural fruit popsicles. Even Mum-mums are available for sale if [...]

RICHMOND: Aoyama Cafe Japanese pasta

AoYama Cafe is associated with UCC Cafe, a popular coffee chain in the Philippines and other Asian countries. Its big sell is siphon coffee. However, I was focused more on the food than the coffee on the day I visited, so here’s a better writeup of their coffee system.

Located on the ground floor of Aberdeen [...]

CALGARY: Kol3 Vietnamese

UPDATE – December 2010: Kol3 took their subs and shu mai balls off the menu because they weren’t selling enough to ensure they were fresh all the time. Sadness. However, they have added a basa banh xeo. They also make a really good sate pho noodle soup. Banh xeo portions have also gotten much bigger [...]

CALGARY: Higher Ground vegetarian dinner

My biggest fears about vegetarian food is that it will be bland and I’ll still be starving afterward. But the three-course vegetarian dinner ($19) at Higher Ground totally dispelled that.

The licensed coffee house offers Global Vegetarian Night every Wednesday from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Each month’s menus are posted on their Facebook page. Reservations are [...]

CALGARY: Perkins

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, [...]