by Twyla Campbell | Jun 11, 2020 | Food, Restaurant Review
The first restaurant review I did for CBC Edmonton AM was of Narayanni’s, a family-owned restaurant just off Whyte Avenue. It was September 2010. I hid my little notebook under the table and peppered the owners’ daughter, Youmashni, with questions. She was...
by Twyla Campbell | Mar 3, 2020 | Food, Restaurant Review, Uncategorized
For such a simple concept, soup is a pretty fascinating dish. I mean, all you do is add bits of things to water and let it all cook and yet the end result is something beautiful, nourishing and complex. Soup reflects culture, history and the land. A bowl of soup has...
by Twyla Campbell | Feb 24, 2020 | Food, Restaurant 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...
by Twyla Campbell | Jan 26, 2020 | Food, Restaurant 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...
by Twyla Campbell | Jan 10, 2020 | Food, Restaurant 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...
by Twyla Campbell | Nov 4, 2019 | Food, Restaurant 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...
