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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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!!
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).
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.