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Polls

Enter Fowke

by paulkamon 12.04.2008

Word from Mon Bella HQ is that Chef Brian Fowke has come out of a peaceful early retirement to lead the kitchen platoon out of the jungle after the very short-lived reign of Chef Lauren Campbell. According to Colonel Troutman, Fowke’s former drill sergeant at Fort Bragg, he can “eat things that would make a [...]

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Love The Apostrophe!

by admin 09.09.2008

me and my boyz headin’ to Joeys

I was reminded tonight of how Vancouver’s chain restaurants have a problem with punctuation when reading a craigslist ad for the new Joeys. Yes, I’m sorry, but it looks like a new Joeys will soon be going boob to boob with the new Cactus Club in the Bentall Centre [...]

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Glad To Be Back In The Field Again

by admin 09.07.2008

Looking back at the previous weekend’s Feast of Feast up in Whistler (video) and in anticipation of today’s Feast of Fields out at UBC Farm, I felt glad that this one was going to be different. I’m happy to return to a farm instead of an open clearing in an urban Whistler forest next to [...]

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Deuce Bungalow To Open On Granville

by admin 09.03.2008

^ from the film Deuce Bigalow
And no, I’m not joshing you about the name. I was walking past the Mysala location today on the Granville Entertainment Disaster strip and found it papered up. Shame it didn’t live to see its first birthday.
A young guy quickly introduced himself as the new owner. Apparently he and a [...]

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Poll: Voya v. Lumiere

by admin 08.17.2008

Seeing how Voya chef Marc-Andre Choquette (interview) led Lumiere’s kitchen to such great heights for so long, I thought it might be interesting to put a new anticipatory poll in the field pitting his soon-to-open restaurant against the upcoming incarnation of his old restaurant.
Is the new Lumiere with Dale Mackay at the helm (with cross-continental [...]

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UD Case File #253-C: Fuel v. Alexandra Gill

by admin 08.03.2008

As noted in the post below, Globe restaurant critic Alexandra Gill was kicked out of Fuel Restaurant last night. The restaurant’s co-owner, Tom Doughty, has now provided something of an explanation:
We simply feel when Alex is writing, great food and service are completely overlooked while she searches for phantom sensationalism and opportunities for defamation. We [...]

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How Awesome is WiFi

by admin 07.17.2008

Well, let me tell you. It’s so awesome that I walked out of Yew Restaurant for not having it the other day. Rather not like me. It was 4pm and I was in between meetings. I wanted an early supper and a couple of beers in the lounge while I caught up on work on [...]

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Where In The World Are You Going?

by admin 06.30.2008

Chronic wanderers are free to pick more than one category before they click the “vote” box.
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Filtration Plant An Invitation To Change?

by admin 06.25.2008

So there’s a massive new water filtration plant that’ll soon be coming online to gush its liquid perfection through a tap near you.
With a daily capacity of 1.8 billion litres, the new Seymour-Capilano water filtration plant seems destined to be something of a landmark facility when it finally comes on-stream towards the end of 2008.
Not [...]

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