by Twyla Campbell | Jul 28, 2018 | Restaurant Review
After two months of eating deep-fried food (or so it seemed), I finally caught a break—and, boy did I need it. It had gotten to the point where just looking at someone’s lawn had me salivating. I needed something green, something raw, something fresh…I was...
by Twyla Campbell | Jul 25, 2018 | Restaurant Review
Two things happen when I see a restaurant menu loaded with words like free range and farm to table and grass-fed. I get excited, and I get worried. More than one restaurant has used these words to simply tug at our heart-strings to get us through their door. We all...
by Twyla Campbell | Jun 12, 2018 | Restaurant Review
June 14 update: Tony Krause is no longer with Revel and hasn’t been cooking there since beginning of April. Kunal (formerly of the Butternut Tree) is the head chef with Mike MacLean as sous. When MacLean came out of the kitchen to speak wth people at a table, I...
by Twyla Campbell | Jun 1, 2018 | Restaurant Review
The Dirtbag Café has been up and running for about 18 months, but I only found it a few weeks ago while riding on the bike path behind MacEwan University. Through a bank of windows, I spied Edison bulbs and people with laptops and coffee cups sitting at a long wooden...
by Twyla Campbell | May 7, 2018 | Restaurant Review
“Nice Legs, Shame About the Face” is a 1979 song by The Monks. It’s also how I feel about Holy Roller, a restaurant just off Whyte Avenue. I’ve eaten there three times, and not once did I pat my belly and say, “Hot damn, that was...
