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Mimi’s Pub and Restaurant – CBC Review
Mimi's Pub (11403 - 40 Avenue) is an aesthetically pleasing pub/restaurant on Edmonton's southside. Whenever an independent restaurant opens in an area typically populated with chain restaurants or no restaurants at all, I always get my hopes up that the food will be...
Fox Burger – CBC Review
Fox Burger is putting out the type of burgers you think about for days after. Why? What's so special about these burgers? If you know how Nate Box rolls (with food), you won't be surprised as to why I think these burgers are the bomb. Read my web article for all the...
A New Year, A New Role
Yesterday, on various social media platforms, the founder of Eat Local Magazine, Heather Muse, announced that I would be joining her and her talented team. I'll be taking on the role of editor, and I couldn't be more thrilled! From Heather: ✨Growth✨ Over the last year...
Bianco – CBC Review
I was pretty excited to hear that Dave Manna (the owner of Rosso Pizzeria) was opening his second restaurant, Bianco, in the Rice Howard Way area near Edmonton Centre. I'm a big fan of Rosso. Love those wood-fired pizzas! Bianco opened this past spring, so they've had...
Kelowna Then and Now – AMA Magazine
It's -28C right now and as I look out my office window, my mind takes me to the Okanagan: hot summer days, sapphire blue water and endless fruit orchards. My first visit to the area was in 1967 to visit my grandparents who'd moved that year to Rutland which was its...
CBC Edmonton – 2019, The Year in Review
We started doing the Year in Review for Edmonton restaurants in 2015 on CBC radio. Some years it's been easy to list restaurants; some years, not so much. This year, Adrienne Pan, Phil Wilson and I decided to focus on naming a specific dish in certain areas of the...
Tiffin – CBC Review
Tiffin is an independently owned Indian fast casual restaurant on Jasper Avenue in the old Sobey's Urban Fresh building. This is the second location, the first being on Ellerslie Road just off 50th Street. A third, in Windemere, opened in November. I reviewed Tiffin...
Read this – Princeton: A Love Story
A couple of months ago, while doing a book signing at Chapters, I met Terry Fong, the author of Princeton: A love story. Terry is a chicken farmer who wrote about his big ol' farm dog who had bone cancer. After the diagnosis, Princeton went through chemo and...
Braven – CBC Review
Braven is one of four restaurant concepts inside the JW Marriott hotel in Edmonton's Ice District. I reviewed it on-air November 27. It's a grand room with a menu that revolves around steak, chops and seafood, much of that cooked on a beautiful birch wood-burning...
June’s Delicatessen – CBC Review
If you missed my CBC review of June's Delicatessen on November 15, here are some links to get you up to speed. Just to clarify, Nate Box's partner in this operation is Mike Forgie, not "Scorgie" as I said on the radio. That's a different Mike, so I apologize. You can...
Filistix – CBC Review
On November 1, I reviewed the brick and mortar location of Filistix. Cousins Ariel del Rosario and Roel Canafranca have garnered a loyal following since they first served meat on skewers from their Filistix food truck in 2008. At the new space on 100 Avenue, they...
Woodshed Burgers – CBC Review
This is set to be the Year of the Burger in Edmonton. Paul Shufelt's Woodshed on 124 Street has committed to using Jeff Nonay's premium Holstein beef, a good move in my opinion. Read my CBC article here or listen to the review I did October 18 on CBC radio (Edmonton...