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VANCOUVER: Red Wagon Cafe

I love breakfast/brunch. I hate lineups. Red Wagon Cafe is lined up to the yazoo on weekends. Solution: go during the weekday.

The cafe feels like it’s been in the neighbourhood forever with a loyal, local clientele and suitably old yet funky looking decor. It’s half true. Red Wagon opened last year, but took over [...]

Star Wars pancakes

File this under “things you don’t need” but “super fun for grownups under guise of doing it for kids” and “why not? we have a a gift certificate to burn.”

Yoda, Darth Vader and a storm trooper as pancake moulds can be yours for $29.95 CAD from Williams-Sonoma. They also make Star Wars [...]

CALGARY: Stampede planner

It’s that time of year again in Calgary. Suits are replaced by plaid shirts and shiny belt buckles. Hay bales become a normal decoration for restaurants and bars. And douches who don straw cowboy hats and skanks who slip on too-short jean skirts and get disgustingly loaded need to apologize to real, live cowboys and [...]

CALGARY: Stampede pancake planning

Love it or hate it, it’s that time of year again in Calgary. You can tell, because store windows are all awash in cartoon cowboys and cacti.

Yes, the Calgary Stampede is back: 10 days of cowboy hats, plaid shirts, and boozy corporate get-togethers. And deep-fried things on sticks.

To be honest, the only thing that makes [...]