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XO Bistro – CBC Review
This post is about XO Bistro, a Vietnamese restaurant in Edmonton, but please indulge me for a minute, first. I recently returned from five weeks in Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. I travelled with another food writer and suffice it to say, we ate a lot. An...
OEB Edmonton – CBC Review
It's finally happened. OEB, the popular brunch place from down south (Calgary), has set up shop in Edmonton. This is good news, right? We definitely need more brunch spots here. I consumed a lot of calories in my three visits. If you're going to fix a hangover, this...
Copper Branch – CBC Review
Copper Branch fills a niche by offering plant-based quick service foods at an affordable price point. The first location opened in December 2018 at 10316 Jasper Avenue; the second at 2205 101 Street in South Edmonton opened a couple of months later. Read more about...
It’s Not Easy (or Tasty) Being Green
The liquid in the bottle was so oddly coloured, it seemed to be glowing. It looked awful. Almost alien-like. I had to buy it. Was there any chance that this Verde tomato clam cocktail, the green version of Mott's Clamato, could actually taste good? I tried it three...
Partake – CBC Review
This is what Edmonton does best when it comes to restaurants: small, cozy spaces where confident and qualified staff dish up delicious, unpretentious food. You can read all about Partake in my CBC web article or listen to the on-air review with Nola Keeler here. The...
2018 – A Hot Year for Kelowna
It's been wonderful to watch the evolution of the Kelowna food scene take place over the years. If you've never been to Kelowna (sometimes referred to by its airport code YLW in hashtags on social media platforms), put it on your destination list. It's long been a...
2018: Edmonton’s Year in Food
Plant-based offerings were the hands-down winner for 2018 which was a surprise to many of us here in the capital city of Alberta. Potatoes from Kanu Café It was also a good year for smaller restaurants serving Asian foods: Kanto with Filipino food, Tang Bistro with...
Favourite Okanagan Destinations: Lake Country
I often get asked for recommendations in the Okanagan. I don't mind, in fact, I absolutely love telling people about the great things in the valley, but, it does take a lot of time and effort to respond to emails and texts about what to eat and drink, or what to do...
Kanu Cafe – CBC Review
Add Kanu to the rapidly growing list of meat-free restaurants setting up in Edmonton—this one part of the group of restaurants connectd with American celeb chef, Matthew Kenney. I reviewed five vegan (vegetarian/plant-based) operations this year. In 2017, I...
The Pursuit of Fun – The Banff Gondola
Brewster Travel Canada, the company that 125 years ago began offering sightseeing excursions to tourists in Banff, Jasper and Glacier National Parks, recently joined forces with its sibling companies in BC and Alaska. Bolstered and polished, they rebranded and emerged...
Sky High Winemaker’s Dinner with Harry McWatters
Harry McWatters is a Canadian wine industry icon. As founder, director, president, and chair of more boards, associations, foundations and wine industry bodies than you can shake a stick at, and as one who has accomplished more firsts and received more accolades...
The Feather
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to Janet Shannon's house to meet with some of her friends and to sign some Maps, Markets and Matzo Ball Soup books. Janet is one of the Kitchen Table Girls—the group of women I write about in the Gail Hall book. On her kitchen...