by Twyla Campbell | May 22, 2011 | Restaurant Review
If you stand on the corner of 87 avenue and 109 Street in Edmonton, you can hit a coffee shop, a bakery, a sushi joint, an Italian bistro, and a couple of diners all in spitting distance. Spit a little farther and you’ll hit a pho place, an Indian spot and a...
by Twyla Campbell | May 9, 2011 | Restaurant Review
Whenever I hear a restaurant is using locally sourced products, I get a little excited. So when Twitter started buzzing with what was going on at the Prairie Bistro in the new Enjoy Centre in St. Albert–a new project by the well-known Hole family of Hole’s...
by Twyla Campbell | Apr 7, 2011 | Restaurant Review
These are good times to be a foodie in E-Town. Seems lately you can’t walk a block without running into a great food place. Talk about an omnivore’s dilemma! Adding to this dilemma is Linda Kearney, long-known to Edmontonians as The Queen of Tarts, and who,...
by Twyla Campbell | Mar 24, 2011 | Restaurant Review
There’s something about the KISS method of cooking that I love. Keep it simple, use quality ingredients, throw in the right dose of talent and you’ve got a recipe for success. Nathan Saurette, in his tiny little kitchen at Niche, is KISS-ing big time. This...
by Twyla Campbell | Mar 10, 2011 | Restaurant Review
The first thing you notice when you walk into this new Edmonton steakhouse is the wall of wine in the corner of a large, paprika-hued room. Over-sized paintings of leathery, mustachioed men and galloping horses give a hint that this isn’t any ordinary...
by Twyla Campbell | Feb 24, 2011 | Restaurant Review
Five Guys Burgers and Fries, an American burger chain established in 1986 by a husband and wife from Virginia, has invaded Canada. Sherwood Park is their latest conquest, and St. Albert and Airdrie are next. British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec have already...
