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Jack's Grill: Top-notch food in chic, comfortable surroundings
Strip malls are not usually the safest bets for fine dining, but one visit to Jack’s Grill and you’ll likely reconsider. After more than 20 years in business, Jack’s continues to be one of Edmonton’s finest dining institutions.
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Beans, peas and lentils set pulses racing at Edmonton restaurants
For dietitians, pulses are a pretty easy sell: they’re some of the healthiest foods available, locally grown and very affordable.
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Somerville's fine food complements impressive grape selection
Expectations can be a sour pickle to overcome for any new dinner spot. But in the case of Sheri Somerville’s new place on 124th Street, the difference between what I anticipated and what I encountered worked very much to her favour.
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Niche restaurant a tiny, perfect gem
The homegrown restaurant renaissance in downtown Edmonton continues apace, praise be. And the best news of all is that the action seems to be centring on smaller, younger-chef-owned establishments.
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Edmonton food notes: Soup, raw food, burgers, upcoming events
Soup lover Carol Knott has started a local chapter of the Calgary-based, non-profit organization, Soup Sisters. Thursday night marks its kickoff at Sunterra Market in Commerce Place downtown.
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Edmonton, get ready to Eat, Drink and Stink
Sorrentino’s Garlic Festival celebrates 20 years of Eat, Drink, Stink starting Friday. The annual, month-long event organized by Stella and Carmelo Rago’s local restaurant chain raises funds for the Campaign for Prostate Health, benefiting the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation, University Hospital Foundation and the Alberta Cancer Foundation.
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For tapas worshippers, tasting is believing at d’Lish
George Michael had it with his first solo album. The pilgrims had it at Plymouth Rock. NBC has it by way of the long-legged country lovely who kicks off their Sunday Night Football broadcasts. Faith, my friends, comes in many forms.
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Food Notes: Creperie marks 35 years with 70s prices, Tree Stone to expand, new farmers market in Castle Downs, and your go-to pho picks
The Creperie is marking its 35th anniversary by bringing back prices from 1976, its opening year.
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Pampa Brazilian Steak House offers a feast for meat fans
For all those carnivores who scoff at the Canada Food Guide recommendation that we eat only one small serving of meat per day, have we got a place for you.
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Where do you get your pho fix in Edmonton?
In case you didn’t know, pho is Vietnamese noodle soup, and there are restaurants all over the city that specialize in it. There’s even one chain, Pho Hoa, with four locations in Edmonton.
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Playing with the Queen of Tarts
Beloved City Market vendor Linda Kearney debuted her storefront bakery and cafe in Edmonton's historic downtown warehouse district Thursday.
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Cafe de Ville hits one out in the Park
Busy, prosperous Sherwood Park offers opportunities for restaurateurs willing to take a flyer on pitching the top-end experience. Cafe de Ville owners apparently thought so, opening their first spinoff outside Edmonton in the busy burb in December.
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New Edmonton restaurant find its Niche downtown
There was a time when the search for a downtown restaurant would leave diners cocking their heads, scrunching their eyes and wondering, wondering, “Where to go?” These days, there is a sense of excitement and burgeoning choice when it comes to picking a place for downtown date night, or somewhere to grab a couple of apples and a glass of wine to chase away the week.
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Beloved Bistro Praha back from the ashes
Friends have long chided me for my belief that the greatest pleasures in life are rarely reproduced the second time around. There’s a glorious slip of sand on Spain’s Costa Brava that my wife and I shall never see again. The homecoming couldn’t possibly measure up. The greatest novels are truly met only at first reading. Savour a brilliant performance and forget the encore: magic is caught in a bottle...
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Thai Valley Grill a gem in Edmonton food scene
While others may head for balmy climes this time of year, when we need a break from the cold and snow of winter, we trek to the warm and cosy atmosphere, and hot and spicy fare of the Thai Valley Grill.
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Restaurants, foodies connect — and score deals — through social media
When Nate Box opened the Elm Café, the owner-chef took out exactly one newspaper ad. The $198 spot in the Oliver paper may have directed some attention to the new eatery, but nothing compared to the social media website Twitter.
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Corso 32: A serious, satisfying taste of Italy
Slowly — the way we do most things around here — a pantheon of local chefs is emerging. It’s about time, considering the public kudos and celebrity that attend so many other more prosaic areas of endeavour.
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Tazza: Mediterranean café satisfying but not sensational
My first encounter with Tazza was a couple of years back, when a friend and I decided to take a pass on a regular luncheon haunt, Il Pasticcio, and cross 100th Avenue to investigate the house café at LeMarchand Mansion.
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Bistro La Persaud: New bistro’s impressive menu demands a return visit
Officially, Bistro La Persaud won’t open for another 41 days, but award-winning corporate executive chef Emmanuel David and his staff have been showing off their talents since mid-November to anyone who stumbles onto the quaint restaurant in the heart of the city’s French quarter.
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