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CALGARY: Breakfast at The Main Dish

It seems you can’t get into any decent breakfast place or diner in Calgary these days without having to line up. (Or queue up as my newly relocated friend JJ would say.)

The alternative involves eating things wrapped in paper.

So it was nice to find that The Main Dish — which I thought only did [...]

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 [...]

CALGARY: Royal Kabab Express

After 20 years and a current economic slump, the owner of the Wall Street Gallery off 14th Street decided it was time for a change. So he turned the framing and art store into — a kebab house.

Royal Kabab Express has a handful of tables for eating in, or you can take out, which [...]

CALGARY: Shawarma addiction

The cranky-on-the-outside/sweet-on-the-inside technicians at work always know the best, cheap places to eat. That’s how I found Jimmy’s A&A Deli in the northeast northwest. Some guys call it Jimmy’s; others call it A&A; I call it frickin’ addictive and awesome.

It looks like any other corner convenience store on the outside but inside is a Middle [...]

EDMONTON: TV dinners!

UPDATE: Culina continues to offer TV dinners with these updated choices for $14 each.

This doesn’t really come from my travels but it does have to do with eating and it’s my blog so I can do whatever I want. My “big-city” friends like to scoff at Edmonton, thinking it’s some sort of quaint backwater. [...]