Since reading Avenue magazine’s “25 Best Things to Eat in Edmonton” back in March, I’ve suffered from Phantom Taste Syndrome (i.e. I swear I could taste Sugarbowl’s lamb burger even though I’ve never actually had it). I blame the onset of this syndrome on Gail Hall & Peter Markiw’s drool-worthy description & photograph of the […]

Even before I moved to Edmonton, I had heard nothing but positive reviews about Red Ox Inn’s food and service. People I knew, food-lovers or not all seemed to rave about Red Ox being THE best fine-dining restaurant in Edmonton. So when D and I made dinner reservations we were really excited to finally be able to try this restaurant. […]

Drift food-truck and Molly’s Eats held a food-truck lunch meetup at Victoria Park yesterday. I work in the South and haven’t been able to get to Drift for lunch this week so I was eager to try their sandwiches. I was starving from watching an hour of Eat St. after a vigorous morning yoga class and since […]

During the weeks before I moved to Edmonton, I said a lot of goodbyes. Coming from Calgary, there were of course a lot of jokes and to-be-expected, “Why are you moving THERE?!”s. A colleague who was recently transplanted from Edmonton to Calgary even said to me, “You know Carmen, besides Pho and Donairs both Vancouver and […]

I need to make a confession… I am a cheese-a-holic. I love cheese, I love all cheese (well… except blue cheese and even then I keep trying it hoping that my tastes have changed). I was once asked in a session, “What can you not live without?” and amidst electricity and water, I found myself […]