by Twyla Campbell | May 14, 2016 | Restaurant Review
If it’s not the Year of the Chicken, it should be. Fried chicken and waffle entrées now make daily appearances on Edmonton menus; KFC—that’s Korean-Fried Chicken—is all the K-poppy rage, and comin’ round the bend at pop ups, diners, and...
by Twyla Campbell | Apr 29, 2016 | Restaurant Review
On March 5, 2015, Darren and Sylvia Cheverie embarked on a Kickstarter campaign to raise $95,000 to open a rustic, French Canadian restaurant. By April 24 they had not only reached their goal, but surpassed it by 13K. Their campaign has become the most successful...
by Twyla Campbell | Apr 15, 2016 | Restaurant Review
I’ve been hot on Sherwood Park’s tail about the chain restaurant blight that has pervaded the town’s culinary scene forever. Very rarely does a good independent restaurant make the Park its home, and if it does, it doesn’t stay for long. Thankfully, things are...
by Twyla Campbell | Apr 2, 2016 | Restaurant Review
There’s a new schnitzel maker in town — admit it, you’ve been holding your breath, waiting for that news. If you realized how seriously Germans take their schnitzel, though, you’d understand the weight of this announcement. I talked about Haus...
by Twyla Campbell | Mar 31, 2016 | Restaurant Review
After the reform of Canadian immigration laws in 1966, Canada’s Korean population grew from 2,000 in 1969 to almost 20,000 by 1980. Naturally, the émigrés brought with them the flavours of their world and Canada was introduced to the exotic flavours of bulgogi...
by Twyla Campbell | Mar 6, 2016 | Food, Restaurant Review
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....
