by Twyla Campbell | Mar 4, 2015 | Restaurant Review
If you’ve lived, shopped, dined, or driven around Edmonton’s downtown core, you’re probably familiar with the Grand Hotel — that sketchy building on the corner of 103 street and 103 avenue, across from the Greyhound bus station. Back in 1904, the Grand Hotel was...
by Twyla Campbell | Mar 3, 2015 | Restaurant Review
Brace yourself, we are on the brink of a hot dog revolution. Edmonton is, anyway. Other cities in Canada have led the charge for years: Vancouver with Japadog, Calgary with Tubby Dog. The lowly wiener has gone from hockey rink staple to haute cuisine. Just add foie...
by Twyla Campbell | Jan 17, 2015 | Restaurant Review
You could call Jan Trittenbach, Jamin Sharp, Jon Elson and Josh Meachem the Rat Pack of Edmonton. Not because they’re a bunch of guys who can sing and dance, but because they just happen to have met and worked together at Packrat Louie just off Whyte Avenue....
by Twyla Campbell | Dec 11, 2014 | Restaurant Review
Oh, what a banner year for Edmonton restaurants! Woodwork, Rge Rd and North 53 gave us something to cheer about by all grabbing a toehold on the long list for enRoute’s Best New Restaurants 2014. Rge Rd carried though by securing position number 4. It appears...
by Twyla Campbell | Nov 18, 2014 | Food
I wouldn’t normally seek out a post secondary campus in search of food. What’s happening at MacEwan University though, is not exactly normal. Schools don’t have the best reputation for putting out good food, but, in the words of Bob Dylan, “the...