by Twyla Campbell | Mar 21, 2019 | Food, Restaurant 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...
by Twyla Campbell | Mar 18, 2019 | Food, Restaurant 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...
by Twyla Campbell | Mar 18, 2019 | Food, Restaurant 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...
by Twyla Campbell | Feb 18, 2019 | Food, Restaurant 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...
by Twyla Campbell | Jan 9, 2019 | Drink, Food
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....
by Twyla Campbell | Dec 31, 2018 | 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...
