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  • Vancouver Restaurants; Gone but not Forgotten

    News that the classic Vancouver institution known as The Elbow Room is closing got me thinking about a few of the Vancouver restaurants that have closed. The first one that comes to mind is the Hastings Street seafood restaurant affectionately known as The Only. Right down in the heart of the downtown Eastside, The Only…

  • The Least Favourite Holiday Treats

    I posted this picture on my A Dad in the Burbs Facebook Page with the question, “what holiday treat do you detest?” I was quite surprised at the response! People don’t like so many of the traditional Christmas treats! As you can probably tell from my picture, I can’t stand Turtles. I just don’t like…

  • The A&W Beyond Meat Burger

    A&W has recently introduced a new burger they are calling the “Beyond Meat Burger”. It is a burger made entirely of plant-based protein. So obviously, I had to try it. What would I find? The commercials I’ve seen suggested they are pretty good – scenes of people biting into the burgers and being surprised to…

  • National Ice Cream Day

    Apparently on the list of “national days”, today is National Ice Cream Day. My current favourite type of ice cream is sea salt and caramel. For a long time it was chocolate and peanut butter or any combination of those ingredients. What is your favourite flavour of ice cream?

  • Forage Catering

    I was at an event yesterday evening (more on the event in the coming day – unless you follow my adventures on Instagram where I’ve already spilled the story). Any way, at last night’s event, the catering was done by Chef Craig Sherer of Forage Catering. Oh my goodness did Chef and his team put…

  • A Day of Eating and Drinking

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  • Biscuits, Crisp, Croissants, and Lamb; A Weekend of Eating

    I started my weekend of eating and foodie explorations with my usual Saturday morning attempt at baking biscuits. I have to say, I had a reasonably successfully experience. The biscuits were light enough but the texture still is not as soft inside as I remember the ones my mother used to make. Or were the…

  • Victoria Day Long Weekend

    I spent most of the Victoria Day long weekend in and around the Fraser Canyon with my kids. We came home late Sunday because traffic on the Monday of the long weekend is a nightmare I can seriously do without. We started out Friday afternoon of the Victoria Day weekend with a drive up the…

  • My Favourite Happy Hour

    For many people, happy hour means cheap booze. For me, my happiest happy hours are all about tacos. Cheap tacos. Well, not cheap tacos, but inexpensive tacos. Yesterday we needed an after school snack so we hit up Port Moody’s Taps and Tacos where they have “street tacos” for $2.50. Street tacos – their 4″…

  • A Weekend of Work, Fun, and Food

    A good weekend of work, fun, and food. The first lunch on Saturday was in a tiny hole-in-the-wall place near the Executive Plaza Hotel on North Road. Tiny place that I didn’t catch the name of. Very nicely cut sashimi. Finally, I’ve got the outdoor grill up and running again! The kids wanted smokies so…