Category: Eating
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Meat and Bread on Pender Street
Knowing how much I enjoy the corned beef sandwiches served at Big Star Sandwich in New Westminster, yesterday my colleague convinced me to try a corned beef sandwich from Meat and Bread on Pender in Vancouver. In short, it was an excellent lunch experience. Even though it gets very busy during the lunch “hour”…
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Legendary Noodle House
Last night a colleague and I headed over to the Legendary Noodle House on Denman Street in the Westend of Vancouver to try out the legendary noodles. We started with a couple plates of pot stickers. The pan fried pork chive pot stickers were tasty but a little skimpy on the filling. The steamed…
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Boulevard Kitchen and Oyster Bar
Seeing as I was downtown Vancouver yesterday, I decided to try the happy hour menu of a place that I’ve been following on Instagram for quite some time – Boulevard Kitchen and Oyster Bar. We started with a plate of fresh west coast “buck-a-shuck” oysters. They were nice, but not nearly as plump and…
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The Hideout Cafe
Even though I had not been into The Hideout Cafe for at least three years (only because I no longer have an office near them), when I entered the cafe, the woman working there greeted me with a big smile and asked where I had been. Still offering awesome customer – would their food be…
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Planting Asparagus
It was a warm and sunny morning so my immediate impulse was to get outside and do some gardening. Yesterday I was at Gardenworks over in Burnaby and I picked up a bag of asparagus roots. Today I prepped the garden bed and planted the asparagus roots. Funny thing, in order to fully understand…
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A Day in the City
Today I spent the day with one of my daughters back in my old haunts of Kitsilano. It was a funny feeling to visit some of the places in the daylight as they were places I most often visited very late at night in the old days. I started at Benny’s Bagels for a coffee…
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Benny’s Bagels on West Broadway
I actually do not ever remember being in Benny’s Bagels during daylight. However, in the late 80s and early 90s I was a regular at Benny’s Bagels between midnight and 3am. So being back in the neighborhood during daylight hours, I jumped on the opportunity to once again visit Benny’s. I wasn’t disappointed. Benny’s…
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Whole Foods Pizza for Lunch
I stopped in at Whole Foods at Solo (across from Brentwood Mall) and I had a couple of slices of their pizza for lunch today. Both of the slices were on very thin crust that I found to be quite pleasing. While the prosciutto and arugula pizza looked delicious, it was really impractical. The prosciutto…
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A Burnaby Starbucks Closes
It is not often that you see an independent coffee shop stay open and the Starbucks across the street from it close up shop. However, that is exactly what happened on the corner of 10th Ave and 6th St along the Burnaby, New West border. The Starbucks has closed and the independent coffee/sandwich shop is…
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After School Snack
I stopped at my mom’s after school today and as always, she offered me a snack. How could I say no to food lovingly prepared by my mom?