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GRANDE PRAIRIE: Hong Fah Thai restaurant

Thank goodness my mother-in-law is a whiz in the kitchen because eating in Grande Prairie would otherwise be a tastebud-numbing, revolving door of chain restaurants.

I’ve been visiting this northern Alberta city of pickup trucks and fantastic beef jerky for a few years now, resigned to the most exciting culinary outing being Mah’s Restaurant. But [...]

CALGARY: Delicious Thai

To find the delicious flavours of Delicious Thai, follow the sound of a didgeridoo and the smell of burnt coffee past the crowd of rasta-hatted, hackey-sacking, patchouli-scented characters.

The tiny Thai restaurant is in the same Kensington courtyard that usually spills over with customers from the Roasterie. You know where I’m talking about.

Delicious Thai’s exterior [...]

TORONTO: The more things change

UPDATE – January 2010: The owners of Irie Food Joint have closed the Jamaican restaurant and opened Harlem Underground in the same location. The new eatery focuses on Southern food as well as live events.

Sometimes I think I’m an 80-year-old woman at heart. I like to drink hot water and carry old Kleenex [...]