by Twyla Campbell | Dec 29, 2016 | Food, This Happened...
2016: what a cow—and, as one of my Twitter friends said, “and not the tasty end either.” Locally, our Edmonton food scene got off to a slow start but picked up steam mid-year. From there, we went full bore. We have a great city and I’m proud to cheer...
by Twyla Campbell | Aug 14, 2016 | Restaurant Review
If there is one thing Michael Maxxis knows how to do well, it’s set a stage. Along with being a filmmaker and video director, Maxxis is one of the owners of El Cortez Mexican Kitchen & Tequila Bar, and the idea-man responsible for its sultry yet edgy...
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...
