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Food Trucks Host Pandemic Popup May 2
It may be a small convoy that gathers this Saturday in the parking lot of Smokehouse BBQ at 15960 - 109 Avenue, but if this popup launch proves successful, Terry Sept of Smokehouse BBQ says his hope is that more food trucks will join in a second event. Bully Food...
Prepare to Eat Local: Lakeside Farmstead Cheese
The table in Jeff and Coralee Nonay’s kitchen is a beast. At 108 inches long and 40 inches wide, the weighty, hand-crafted beauty can accommodate a dozen diners. Today, the chairs are pushed aside to give people better access to what it has become: the biggest...
3 Steps to Easy, Perfect Oven-Braised Brisket
So here we are, self-isolating in this time of the Coronavirus and comforting ourselves with good books, long naps and video chats with friends and family who live far away. Now, more than ever, we need to choose home-made food over high-processed, nutrient-poor foods...
Dagu Rice Noodle – CBC Review
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...
Mimi’s Pub and Restaurant – CBC 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 the food will be...
Fox Burger – CBC 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 for all the...
A New Year, A New Role
Yesterday, on various social media platforms, the founder of Eat Local Magazine, Heather Muse, announced that I would be joining her and her talented team. I'll be taking on the role of editor, and I couldn't be more thrilled! From Heather: ✨Growth✨ Over the last year...
Bianco – CBC Review
I was pretty excited to hear that Dave Manna (the owner of Rosso Pizzeria) was opening his second restaurant, Bianco, in the Rice Howard Way area near Edmonton Centre. I'm a big fan of Rosso. Love those wood-fired pizzas! Bianco opened this past spring, so they've had...
CBC Edmonton – 2019, The Year in 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 the...