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big lou’s butcher shop
I recently went on a food blogger date with Janice from Good Eat and Andy from Andy Eats A Lot. We decided to make a little tour of Gastown, with visits to places that were on our respective to-eat-at lists — the first of these visits was to Big Lou’s Butcher Shop, which, along with Meat ...
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mythos
I take my camera everywhere on vacation, especially when visiting Universal’s Islands of Adventure, where the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is located. I’d wanted to go since it opened, and I finally ended up visiting. It was everything I thought it’d be and more, but this post is about incidental food blog material created ...
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hog shack cook house
Steveston’s Hog Shack Cook House has been stirring up the Lower Mainland-area food blog hype since it opened a year or so ago. Offering Kansas-style BBQ and a large craft beer selection, it fits well with the new, updated Steveston vibe. Over the past few years, the previously sleepy neighbourhood by the water has experienced ...
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joey (coquitlam)
Gift cards are the great equalizer. The Joey chain of restaurants is one that most people around my age thought was super-cool at one time, an impression probably rooted in their locations’ cool modern interiors and food that is more polished than your average Earls or White Spot. I’m sure we’ve all been to our ...
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stackhouse burger bar
It was probably a bad idea to come here on the night of the Celebration of Light finale. Driving down was a pain, and on the way out I had to drive through a sea of people on the closed Davie Street. On the other hand, Stackhouse Burger Bar wasn’t busy, and I was able ...
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romer’s burger bar (river district)
It seems like gourmet burgers are popping up all over the Lower Mainland. There’s Burger Heaven, and Stackhouse, and Romer’s, and of course there was DB Bistro Moderne. These ain’t the burgers of your youth: a cheap patty slapped between two limp buns, with the most luxurious topping being bacon. No sirree, if that burger ...