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• Restaurant Review

  Pair Bistro

  05.29.09 | Permalink | Comment? | By Jonathan

  Sometimes I enjoy a meal at a restaurant so much that I can never seem to order anything else. Such is the case at the Pair Bistro, an intimate neighborhood bistro located just west of Alma on 10th. My repeated order? Half a dozen fresh oysters, ($2.50 ea) Wapiti Elk Medallions ($24) with a [...]

• Travel & Eat

  YVR Executive Lunch

  05.27.09 | Permalink | Comment? | By Jonathan

  If you are lucky enough to spend time in the YVR executive lounge, hiding away from the great unwashed, you may think that your elevated status owes you a lunch. Certainly, it earns you unlimited access to an open bottle of black label, even to a keg of beer. However, as I recently learned, the [...]

• Restaurant Review

  Joeys on Burrard

  05.21.09 | Permalink | Comment? | By Jonathan

  I finally got around to trying Joeys, the slick wine bar at Burrard and Pender.  I was surprised at the cosmopolitan interior, which seems to bring Vancouver up a (much needed) step to something approximating a big city vibe. I even like the massive lamp that looms like a gargantuan portabello mushroom. The Joey’s chain [...]

• Food And Tell

  A Tribute to the Popsicle

  05.17.09 | Permalink | Comment? | By Jonathan

   
  Spending the first long weekend of the summer with a major cold/flu is not my idea of a good time. But I have had a friend in these dark days: the Popsicle. Is there a better comfort food for the sick, the sunburned or the plain summery? I think not. Long live the Popsicle!!

• Food And Tell

  Just in Case You Are Wondering – Don’t

  05.16.09 | Permalink | Comment? | By Jonathan

   
  A weak moment at 7/11 combined with a haphazard lunch of cold AAA sirloin and chips has proven to me without a doubt that Ruffles “Sour Cream’n and Bacon” chips are disgusting, and have NOTHING in common with bacon. To be avoid at all costs (but you are probably smarter than that already).

• Food And Tell

  Spot Prawn Festival

  05.11.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments | By Jonathan

  This weekend I went to the Spot Prawn Festival at Fisherman’s Warf, by Granville Island. The event marks the beginning of the 8 week period during which you can purchase freshly caught spot prawns directly from the boat. In its third year, the festival (press release here) is designed to promote the spot prawn, a [...]

• Food on the Web

  the “twecipe” phenomenon

  05.06.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment | By Jonathan

  I am sure that you, like me, need to read nothing more about twitter, ever again.  But microblogging is here to stay and it is as useful for some things as it is useless for others.
  Enter Marueen Evens, the inventor of the “twecipe.”  The 27 year old BC woman  studying in Belfast, covered in a [...]

• Food And Tell

  NYC looms large in the James Beard Awards

  05.04.09 | Permalink | Comment? | By Jonathan

  Tonight’s James Beard awards honoured NYC-based chefs and restaurants almost exclusively. We all knew the food was better in the big apple. The prodigious awards are named after the late food writer, and is decided by a voting pool of over 400.  The winners will be very familiar if you watch top chef (or live [...]

• Restaurant Review

  hapa izakaya

  05.04.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment | By Jonathan

  If you live in Vancouver, hopefully you have already visited hapa izakaya many times. The stylish Robson location is better known, while the newer and cozier Kitsilano location is where you can find me frequently.  It has fast become my go-to izakaya restaurant, supplanting Guu (my first love). Hapa is the kind of place that [...]

• Gear Whoring

  “Rap Chop” featuring Vince (Steve Porter’s Slap Chop remix)

  05.04.09 | Permalink | Comment? | By Jonathan

  This is too funny and it really makes me want to slap chop. And for some reason I feel like buying a bunch of shamwow towels, too.

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