The Silk Hat is not dead! (Though it will be minus a few antique jukeboxes.) I watched the Holiday Dessert special of Iron Chef America this weekend. Though there are dissenting opinions on this episode, I loved it! For once, the competitors (Cat Cora/Paula Deen vs. Robert Irvine/Tyler Florence) were less than serious, and had [...]

I’m sure everyone has more than enough to keep themselves occupied during the holidays, but in case you wanted to escape the mall madness, or similarly harrowing family situations, here are a few ideas. Starved for theatre like I am? How about Bitchslap! by Guys in Disguise, or the Walterdale’s Sinbad the Sailor? Both have [...]

After discovering that a chain like Milestone’s could serve a pretty mean brunch, I went hunting for similar restaurants competing for diners on weekend afternoons. While Earls and Joey’s didn’t offer separate brunch menus, I found that Moxie’s did. So after a brief shopping trip this morning, Annie and I headed to Moxie’s on the [...]

After attending the Festival of Trees in 2006, and finding it nice but not worth returning to, I was surprised that I found myself looking forward to it this year. May and I made a date to tour the decorated halls, and headed there after supper on Friday. May smiles by the hall entrance Beautiful [...]

Armed with an Entertainment Book coupon and low expectations, May and I headed to Four Rooms Restaurant (137 Edmonton City Centre) on Friday night. After an overly negative experience in my high school days (involving rock-hard bread and food not remotely memorable), I was hesitant to return. But with a sweetened incentive of a 2-for-1 [...]

After some research, I learned that there really isn’t a *good* time to go to New York – there are less busy seasons, sure (January – March being one of them), but because of a diminishing number of available rooms (converting to condominiums is apparently all the rage for hotel properties) and hoteliers taking advantage [...]

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather by someplace else.” – Len Wein “Friendship is one of the sweetest joys in life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.” – Charles H. Spurgeon “A single rose can be my [...]

When my coworker brought homemade shortbread cookies to the office the other day, I was reminded of a recipe I have been wanting to try for some time. So I hauled out my pink Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book, and flipped to the page with directions for Scotch Shortbread. The ingredients couldn’t be more [...]

Edmontonians can breathe a sigh of relief – Capital Health has announced that the inspection results of city-wide restaurants will be accessible to the public by July 1. The Matrix Hotel, besides being the home of Edmonton’s newest Starbucks, will also house a new restaurant from the L’Azia Group, called the Wildflower Restaurant. Barring construction [...]

I couldn’t resist posting a section of today’s “Telescope“, a weekly column in the Edmonton Journal‘s Sunday Reader. It’s just too clever to be missed: “Drop the first letter of an existing word to create a new one, and then supply a definition for it. Readers of the Washington Post‘s Style Invitational were asked to [...]