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My sister invited me out this afternoon for this so-called giant takoyaki ball. Not only was the idea of eating interesting, but the mention of these Japanese-style fritters being served out of a van in Richmond certainly…

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When we moved into our current home there was a little corner store / coffee shop run by Mario and Maria, an older Portugese couple. About six months later they closed so the building could be renovated. No one ever…

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Check out what’s on tap at the Alibi Room right now. Personally, I’m down for the special Sea Cider. I think I’ll sneak in on Moday after work as they are planning to make a night out of it with a…

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Instead of celebrating a birthday milestone with an expensive meal in the hundreds, I chose something special and more low-key that my entire little family could enjoy. The Secret Garden Tea Company in Kerrisdale offers a…

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The Gimlet, Negroni and the ever-present G&T–all gin-based drinks. A serious gin aficionado is likely to have as many different gins as Foodists have salts. If you aren’t in the know, you’d ask the same…

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Ben and I were recently invited to join a few other food bloggers at a media tasting lunch at Irashai Grill on West Pender. But wait a second I thought, there’s an Irashai downtown Vancouver? Since when? Well…

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It came about not too long ago that I was told about a restaurant I’d never heard of. That doesn’t happen very often so my first assumption was that it didn’t exist. Pear? Pere? Pair? Pare? Hearing it…

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I was a bit dubious when “Rime”, a Turkish restaurant on Commercial Drive, re-opened as a Japanese joint called, Lime. But it looked intriguing and I love Japanese food, so eventually got to check it out and…

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While you’re off on the Circle Farm Tour of Harrison, all the snacking on locally grown and made products might make you want to tuck into a more substantial meal. It used to be that Harrison was a bit of a culinary…

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I spent a couple of hours at the bar of the Alibi Room on Thursday, catching up with Nigel and finding out what what’s on tap, and what’s coming up over the next few weeks. Let’s start off with some…

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A read through the comments on the Foodists post To Review or Not Review will reveal an interesting discourse on the notion that today’s restaurant cannot afford to ignore the online world. What’s said about…

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A librarian friend of mine turned me on to this book. The alternate title could have easily been Zen And The Art Of Owning A Small Restaurant, for its unconventional culinary philosophy and total lack of ego.  Half…

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As more and more people live in cities, the knowledge gap between where food comes from and how it gets to your table widens. It’s easy enough to live downtown and never go farther than your grocery store for…

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Wow. The Discovery Channel uses the slogan ‘The World is Just Awesome’. If I could describe my two dinners in a row recently, I would rework that slogan for Chandi restaurant in Bali. I’ve been fortunate…

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Once, when I first moved back to Vancouver, I went on a date to the Sugar Refinery. A boy and I sat on a purple couch and talked about rap music while hipsters posed around us. Both the boy and the venue were unmemorable,…

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