by Twyla Campbell | May 1, 2015 | Restaurant Review
Nevin and Kara Fenske are the people you go to when you need a side-dish from the Menu of Life: a lift-me-up, a smile, a laugh, a little sunshine. Since 2011, they’ve also been dishing up award-winning food out of their Drift Food Truck. The success of the...
by Twyla Campbell | Apr 24, 2015 | Restaurant Review
Tongues are wagging over The Burger’s Priest Toronto chain-phenom that set up in Edmonton last month. This marks the eighth location but the first one outside of Ontario. There’s a burger hole in Edmonton, and Shant Mardirosian has set his sights to fill...
by Twyla Campbell | Apr 21, 2015 | Restaurant Review
I am happy to see Alex Sneazwell alive and well. His departure from El Cortez came as a surprise to Edmonton’s food community. But, no sense crying over spilled horchata, because Alex has moved on and set up a dynamite little sandwich shop called Sandwich &...
by Twyla Campbell | Apr 18, 2015 | Restaurant Review
In 1988, with the financial backing of Bus Fuller (Earls restaurant patriarch), two ex-Earls employees, Scott Morison and Richard Jaffray, opened up a breakfast joint in Vancouver called the Cactus Club Cafe. It didn’t do so well. In fact, four months later they...
by Twyla Campbell | Apr 15, 2015 | Restaurant Review
Travel anywhere by plane means at some point on that journey you will eat on a plane, or in an airport. Airplane food is hardly known for its high culinary standard and food in airports usually consists of yogurt parfaits, cold sandwiches and deep-fried everything....