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The Fernie Food Tour
I've traveled to and through British Columbia so many times, I can't even count anymore. Usually, the Okanagan or Vancouver Island is my destination but two weekends ago, a few food/travel writers and I were invited to stay, play and eat in Fernie, and, oh how we did....
Cranbrook, BC: Lonely Planet’s Missed Opportunity
What happens when a travel writer slams a town for having nothing to offer? The town fights back. Rule #1 of Write Club: Never Piss Off the Locals. The person who wrote the blurb for Lonely Planet about Cranbrook—describing it as 'a dusty crossroads', 'charmless',...
Hotel Arts: Calgary’s Consistently Impressive Boutique Hotel
I travel a lot. I stay in hotels. They get boring. They look like grey blocks...and I like pretty things. Sometimes I need a boutique blast; a change of venue that offers some stimulation for the senses. If you've ever been to Hotel Arts in Calgary, you know where I'm...
What’s Cooking at Get Cooking?
Cover photo courtesy of The Salty Almond. There's always something brewing, shaking or baking at Kathryn Joel's Get Cooking school in Edmonton. The school is located in the MacEwan student residence behind the Robbins Health Learning Centre at Grant MacEwan's city...
Boralia (Toronto) Serves Up Canadian Culinary History
cover photo credit: @Boralia_to I stumbled across Boralia's Instagram feed in 2014 when owners Evelyn Wu and Wayne Morris were in the early stages of recipe testing. The name was Borealia back then but the 'e' was dropped due to a trademark issue. Borealia, by the...
No Way Jose’s Taqueria – Restaurant Review
Sherwood Park is overrun with fast food "Mexican" chains—you know the ones: Taco Bell, Taco Time, Taco del Mar...other than Casa Doce, really good Mexican food is hard to come by in these parts. Thankfully, that's no longer the case: No Way Jose's Taqueria is getting...
The Almanac on Whyte – Restaurant Review
After two months of painting and polishing, partners Alysha Couture, Dominique Moquin and Josh Meachem announced that The Almanac on Whyte, a place where "pub fare meets French food", was ready to open. Bring on the cassoulet!—and I mean, literally: Alberta is home...
The Local Omnivore – Chapter 2, Park the Truck
Two guys meet over pizza, form a strong bro-bond, realize their mutual love of bacon, and soon find themselves doodling names for a food truck they dream of owning one day. That's a synopsis of Chapter 1 in the story about Mark Bellows and Ryan Brodziak, the two...
Workshop Eatery – Restaurant Review
In the sea of greige banality that is South Edmonton, the Mosaic Centre stands out like a beacon in the deep suburban night. The building, designed by the award-winning firm of Manasc Isaac, is the first net-zero commercial building in the country. The second floor...
Unique Opportunity: Mangalitsa Workshop in Edmonton
The Mangalitsa pig is a Hungarian heritage breed with a furry coat and meat so marbled it is referred to as the 'Kobe beef of pork'. It is also a pig on the rise. Bred initially for its lard, it neared extinction after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire but...
Prairie Noodle Shop – Restaurant Review
A little over a year ago, pals Arden Tse and Terry Wong started testing their homemade ramen on friends. It was good, in fact, it was better than good, and the friends urged the pair to share their creation with the rest of the city. Tse and Wong enlisted...
Juniper Cafe & Bistro – Restaurant Review
Ask a Taoist wherein lies the key to happiness, and he would reply: 'what would you do without doing'? It was a statement Peggy Addams heard when she was trying to figure out the next chapter in her life after a 17-year career in corporate management ended. Her...