Every year I am part of a panel of 3 (restaurant reviewer Twyla Campbell and CBC TV host Adrienne Pan are the others) who share our picks for best Edmonton restaurants of the year, and recently our 2017 picks were released. So how good a year was it for Edmonton restaurants? Well, new spots where […]
Edmonton’s Best Spots for Homestyle Soup
Soup weather is upon us, and it’s one of the few reasons I actually look forward to the cooler weather. Few things are as satisfying as a delicious hot soup for lunch on a cold and blustery day, but finding a really great bowl isn’t always easy to do without a hot tip from a […]
Edmonton’s Best Kept Foodie Secrets
Hardcore foodies always seem to know little secrets about the food scene in any given city that the general public hasn’t picked up on yet, so I thought I’d share half a dozen of my favourite things about the Edmonton and area scene that you may not have heard of. Jack’s Burger Shack has a […]
Game of Scones
You don’t have to be the wisest in all the 5 kingdoms to know that Edmonton has some pretty darn good scones. The only question is who will take the Iron Throne of scones? I had a couple food friends in town a while back, which was a perfect opportunity to put their taste buds […]
Edmonton Brunch Odyssey #4 – Meat vs Next Act Pub
Meat and The Next Act may have the same owners, but the menus don’t necessarily convey that relationship. The brunch offerings are distinctly different from each other, and equally interesting. The Old Strathcona area fared pretty well in my searches for Edmonton’s best fried chicken and pizza, and the nearby Ampersand 27 got the area […]
Edmonton Brunch Odyssey #3 – Ampersand 27 vs Wildflower Grill
Two restaurants attached to hotels. One in Old Strathcona, and the other Downtown. The chef at one used to be the chef at the other. Plenty of good reasons to put Ampersand 27 and Wildflower Grill together in the Brunch Odyssey, so that’s what I did. Ampersand 27 – 10612 Whyte avenue Fancy plating and […]
The Great Edmonton Perogy Showdown- Crowning a Winner
After blind taste testing 3 rounds, and 13 different perogies, I rounded up the 5 best and assembled a crew of food lovers to do one final round – the round that would finally crown a champion. It’s been a very interesting experiment, this practice of tasting multiple versions of the same thing back to […]
The Great Edmonton Perogy Showdown- Round 3
Confession time: I’m starting to get sick of perogies. I could probably only stomach another half dozen, or so… Round 3 consisted of 5 perogies this time instead of 4, which brings the total number of perogies tested to 13. We included a mix of farmers market perogies, a church perogy, a perogy from […]
The Great Edmonton Perogy Showdown- Round 2
Round 1 of the search for Edmonton’s best perogies was a really interesting study for me. Certainly I’ve found since sharing the results of round 1, that people are quite passionate about their perogies, and that they are keen to discuss that passion. That’s a fantastic thing, and I hope you all continue to share […]
The Great Edmonton Perogy Showdown
Edmonton is a bit of a hotbed for perogies, due to our large Ukrainian population, but it seems that everyone has their own ideas on where to find the best ones. Since the demand for perogies goes way up at Christmas, I decided that I should make an effort to find the best ones for […]