by Twyla Campbell | Nov 23, 2015 | Restaurant Review
Edmontonians are well aware of this city’s penchant for demolishing, not restoring, historic properties, so when Tavern 1903 opened in the rebuilt Alberta Hotel on Jasper Avenue, citizens rejoiced. We finally had a swanky food and drink establishment in an...
by Twyla Campbell | Sep 4, 2015 | Restaurant Review
If you’ve been to Japan, you’re probably familiar with izakayas — rowdy bars filled with (mostly) men blowing off steam after a hard day’s work, and for some, oftentimes, conducting business deals fuelled by sake and whisky long into the night....
by Twyla Campbell | Aug 21, 2015 | Restaurant Review
Huma (pronounced ooma) is the lovechild of Humberto Hernandez Cordova and Mariel Montero Sena. The Puebla, Mexico natives opened the doors to their restaurant two months ago after hosting pop-ups at the now closed Expressionz Cafe. Some may remember Mariel as a...
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 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...
