by Twyla Campbell | Jul 25, 2018 | Restaurant Review
Two things happen when I see a restaurant menu loaded with words like free range and farm to table and grass-fed. I get excited, and I get worried. More than one restaurant has used these words to simply tug at our heart-strings to get us through their door. We all...
by Twyla Campbell | Jul 24, 2018 | Restaurant Review
When people cook the foods they grew up eating, they have a look of contentment and happiness on their face. Cooking this food is easy for them. It is done by rote and muscle memory. When I stopped in at Kanto, that’s exactly how Edgar Gutierrez (head chef at...
by Twyla Campbell | Jun 12, 2018 | Restaurant Review
June 14 update: Tony Krause is no longer with Revel and hasn’t been cooking there since beginning of April. Kunal (formerly of the Butternut Tree) is the head chef with Mike MacLean as sous. When MacLean came out of the kitchen to speak wth people at a table, I...
by Twyla Campbell | Jun 1, 2018 | Restaurant Review
The Dirtbag Café has been up and running for about 18 months, but I only found it a few weeks ago while riding on the bike path behind MacEwan University. Through a bank of windows, I spied Edison bulbs and people with laptops and coffee cups sitting at a long wooden...
by Twyla Campbell | May 7, 2018 | Restaurant Review
“Nice Legs, Shame About the Face” is a 1979 song by The Monks. It’s also how I feel about Holy Roller, a restaurant just off Whyte Avenue. I’ve eaten there three times, and not once did I pat my belly and say, “Hot damn, that was...
by Twyla Campbell | Apr 26, 2018 | Restaurant Review
Matzo ball soup, blintzes, bagels (really good bagels) and lox…these items have been a long time coming in Edmonton. Thankfully Charlie Rothman realized that, too. He’s opened Rooster Kitchen on Whyte Ave and while the menu isn’t 100% Jewish foods, a...
