My favorite ice cream shoppe isn’t this one. I’ve seen ghost towns with more oomph to them… okay, maybe I’m not being fair – the temperature being a balmy -1 and all – but when you enter an ice cream shop in the off season the first words out of the servers mouth shouldn’t be [...]
Archive for February, 2010
As I walk in to Los Chilitos, it feels like walking in to the home of a friend you haven’t seen in a while. The restaurant itself has been remodeled from an old house, which works to its advantage.
I was immediately greeted by a friendly guy who ended up being my waiter for the evening, [...]
If you have a lot of time on your hands, this is the restaurant for you. Jameson’s restaurant & bar is located at 3802 Brentwood Road NW (That’s Brentwood Station for all those folks ridin’ the rails) and boasts a spacious – yet homey – seating and bar area.
We happened to go on “all-you-can-eat fish [...]
While the intersection of 14th St. and 17th Ave. SW may mark the end of the Uptown 17th Ave shopping district, The Chocolate Bar, located right on the corner proves that “saving the best for last” is well worth this walk.
The Chocolate Bar offers a full dessert menu in addition to premium cakes – [...]
After years and years of being the incurable tomboy (well, I’m still pretty tomboy-ish), much to my chagrin, I have developed a penchant for pretty dresses.
Enter Eleven:Eleven.
Housed in an older Kensington building at 233 10th Street NW, Eleven:Eleven caught my eye with the beautiful fabric hanging in its window. This beautiful fabric, upon further [...]
Calgary’s plus-15 system is a haven of exciting finds. If you’re in downtown and you’re not really connected to it, I feel sorry for you. There’s tons of mom-and-pop shops, doctors’ offices, dry-cleaners, random art, and, most importantly, FOOD!
Sonoma Market Cafe is one of those exciting food finds, at least that was the impression I [...]
FINALLY! Calgary has a frozen yogurt place that isn’t Yogen Fruz!
Spoon Me recently opened a shop up in Kensington (it’s a franchise originally out of the Four Corners States – yeah, random eh?) right next to Higher Ground. It’s no Yogurt-land, but hey, I’ll take what I can get.
Aside from offering tasty yogurt alternatives [...]
I remember a few years ago hearing my cousin tell her mom that Rubaiyat, at 722 17th Avenue SW, sold some cool stuff – jewelry, housewares, good (if very fancy) gift stuff. And since I walk by there all the time, that statement made me more curious to go in. But I never really found [...]
After failing a third time to get into the highly (peer) acclaimed Towa on 4th Street SW, my friends and I decided to go Sushi Kawa just a few meters down the street (at 2204 4th Street SW, to be exact).
Definitely a good choice, given the abundance of restaurants in the area.
Kawa’s so-so service and [...]
Being a vegetarian, I’ve obviously been to The Coup a few times. It is a very popular place for lots of excellent reasons:
they have really good food
they use fresh local and organic ingredients whenever possible
they have really consistently good service
It also helps when you have a tiny space; it makes it look full all the [...]
