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#visaeveryday 3: Browns Socialhouse

are you gonna eat that? — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:49:29 +0000

(This is a sponsored post.)

Made only one purchase today for #visaeveryday. We had brunch at the Richmond location of Browns Socialhouse.

Normally, grammatical offences would have knocked this casual dining franchise off my list. First, its name. Shouldn’t it be Brown’s or even Browns’? Socialhouse is not a word. And its noun-verb mixed motto of “Restaurant. [...]

CALGARY: Happy St. Patrick’s Day

are you gonna eat that? — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:50:25 +0000

Some of you may be heading out for a raucous pub and green beer today/this weekend, but for those of us who seek quieter climes (yeah, I’m old), try my favourite place to relax with a few drinks, Milk Tiger Lounge.

I blogged about Milk Tiger when it first opened. They make drinks here the [...]

TORONTO: Swish by Han

are you gonna eat that? — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:03:44 +0000

Finding a spot in Toronto to catch up with some girls from work turned out to be a bit harder than we thought. We didn’t want to go to a pub so that ruled out a lot of places downtown. A bistro/bar was way too noisy and crowded. We finally ended up at Swish [...]

CALGARY: Milk Tiger Lounge

are you gonna eat that? — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:00:54 +0000

I began taking photos of Milk Tiger Lounge as the sun was setting outside, but then the dapper bartender/owners started serving me their delicious cocktails and the rest is history.

The lounge is as polar opposite as you can get from the space formerly occupied by A Bar Named Sue, as well as from the [...]

Oh yukkaflux!

are you gonna eat that? — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:26:54 +0000

“Have you ever had yukkaflux?” Colette asked me one day.

I definitely had not. Turns out it’s a kind of liquor concoction favoured by high school and college kids in the Prairies.

Spelled yukkaflux, yukaflux, yuccaflux and yuckaflux, it even has a website dedicated to it.

Colette’s version involves dumping whatever leftover hard liquor is at hand [...]

TORONTO: Girls’ night out

are you gonna eat that? — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:45:09 +0000

UPDATE: Coca is now closed as of spring 2009.

I met my friend Natalie in Grade 8, waiting outside our social studies class. We were drawn to each other in that shy, awkward bond familiar to anyone who’s just transferred to a new school. We shared years of tedious classes, ridiculous bathroom pranks and stalking [...]