Enter your email to get notifications of new posts

2384656420_f66ea56306

Categories

Archives

VANCOUVER: Eli's Serious Sausage, Chili Tank street food carts and an Oven Monkey

Most of Vancouver’s street food carts congregate downtown or in business districts. I live in the ‘burbs. So I love it when they come to me. A few food trucks are regulars at the bi-weekly Steveston Farmers Market.

Eli’s Serious Sausage is a sausage truck. (Insert bawdy joke here.) I think that’s Eli in the [...]

CALGARY: Mimo Portuguese

There’s no doubt Mimo Restaurant is run by a family that’s proud of what they do. Our server, Carla, is the daughter of the owners and in typical Portuguese fashion, she loves to chat. But that’s how I learned about the restaurant, and the area’s, interesting history.

A quarter century ago, part of what we know [...]

EDMONTON: Café de Ville

Looking for somewhere new for Sunday brunch (we can only go to Culina so many times in one weekend), Jason’s family and I headed to Café de Ville, which has been in Edmonton for a while but somehow not on our radar.

The restaurant is on the ground floor of the three-storey Buena Vista building built [...]

CALGARY: Over Easy Breakfast

The corridor at the top of Edmonton Trail near 8th Street should be renamed the Breakfast Belt, or the Bacon Block, or French Toast Township, or the Huevos Hood (WOOO! Someone’s had too much coffee this morning.)

Joining the always popular, lined-up Diner Delux, and the weekend brunches of fairly new AKA Bistro, and Big [...]

CALGARY: Mermaid Inn

I’m a little behind on the blogging, but my review in last week’s Metro was on the Mermaid Inn inside the Danish Canadian Club.

I totally forgot to mention that no, you do not have to be a member to dine there. In fact, I was really excited this summer when the club was holding a [...]

CALGARY: Prorogued = perogies

It started off as a joke. But the more times we heard and saw the word “prorogue” this morning — and believe me that’s a lot in a newsroom — the more we envisioned a warm, solid plate of perogies for lunch as the country falls apart around us.

Or as Perez Hilton calls it, [...]

TORONTO: Sweet street meat

Pitch dark midnight, downtown Toronto, and 70 km/hr winds. But the comfort of the yellow hot dog stand beckoned. I have no idea what hours these guys keep but they always seem to be there when I need them.

A few drinks with friends and suddenly I needed a spicy Italian smokie. The corners of [...]