by Twyla Campbell | Aug 29, 2016 | Restaurant Review
Skill, detail and finesse: those words describe the room and the food at Café Linnea in Holland Plaza, the hottest new food destination at 10932 119 Street NW in Edmonton. Provisions is its neighbour on the north side, Local Omnivore its neighbour on the west. We all...
by Twyla Campbell | Mar 7, 2016 | Drink, Food
Cover photo courtesy of The Salty Almond. There’s always something brewing, shaking or baking at Kathryn Joel’s Get Cooking school in Edmonton. The school is located in the MacEwan student residence behind the Robbins Health Learning Centre at Grant...
by Twyla Campbell | Jul 24, 2015 | Restaurant Review
Seeing hunks of cured meat hanging in a restaurant display case tells me that the restaurant owner (or chef) ‘gets it’ when it comes to food. You can’t spend that much time and effort making a dozen different types of charcuterie if you don’t...
by Twyla Campbell | Jul 22, 2015 | Food
Approximately 480,000 people are expected to attend Taste of Edmonton (TOE) this year. Billed as the largest food festival in Canada, there is no doubt that this event, now in its 31st season, is one of Edmonton’s best-attended festivals. Does it mean people...
by Twyla Campbell | Jul 20, 2015 | Restaurant Review
I once asked a server in Italy if the pork they were serving came from a local farm. Although I couldn’t translate his words, his flaring nostrils and scrunched eyebrows said, “Are you nuts?” It was the same look I got from a server in Portland when...
