Uprising Breads Bakery
1697 Venables Street
Vancouver, BC
Note: Today, I have a two-post “special”. The “other” post – Vancouver’s Bakers Market, can be found here.
A week and a half ago, during Thanksgiving weekend (as a reminder for non-Canadian readers, specially if you are from the US: we celebrate Thanksgiving in the second Monday for October), I was invited to my family friend CL’s home. Wait, did I say family friend? Don’t my parents live in Panama? I have a long history with CL, since he has known me since I was a child, before he moved to Canada and my parents moved to Panama. And, what happened when I moved here to Canada? Originally I was planning to go to Toronto but my mother “suggested” me I should go to Vancouver and stay at CL’s place instead. I am very thankful for what he has done for me on all these years and there was absolutely no what I won’t accept his invite to have the Thanksgiving dinner at his home. But, but… Despite I was the only non-family guest and was assured there was no need for me to bring anything, I won’t show up empty handed. Originally, I wanted to go to Fratelli’s to bring a cake or pie but, alas, it was closed (I forgot they are closed on Sundays). I thought then “I guess I will have to fall back on buying something from Save-on-Foods…”. That was until I was driving north on Commercial Drive when I recalled another nearby bakery and that fellow blogger Sherman wrote about previously: Uprising Breads Bakery.
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Bakery,
Commercial Drive,
Pastry,
Vancouver
Vancouver’s Bakers Market
118 – 408 East Kent Avenue South
Vancouver, BC
Saturday only event – check website for hours/days
Note: Today, I have a two-post “special”. The second post – Uprising Bread Bakery, can be found here.
Although Vancouver is nowhere near the largest cities in the world, at least we have lots of eateries and food related events. Where to go? What to eat? While I am sure a lot of us food bloggers have filled that niche to a certain extent, there is still the question: where do *we* look for events/places to eat? We look at each other, of course! Fellow blogger Mijune of Follow Me Foodie wrote about a bakers market not long ago and, while I have overgrown that mad desire for sweets and not fond in any way of cupcakes, I thought “hey, why not!”. So, ready with some insulin along, I went to the local Vancouver’s Bakers Market.
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Bakery,
Events,
Pastry,
Vancouver
Long Table Series @ The Irish Heather
208 Carrall Street
Vancouver, BC
Note: This was originally posted on August 19, 2009. I thought to “bump” it as last week, I went with some fellow bloggers for another iteration of the Long Table Series at The Irish Heather. For today’s post, please see next post or click here. As for this dinner, needless to say, it was a blast: good, cheap food, with booze served along and with lots of people who share your passion for food. Fellow bloggers who attended were:
Jenny (and Ricky) of My Secret Eden – post is up!
Danny of Five Loaves – post is up!
Jessica (and Mark) of Yum-O-Rama – post is up!
Jonathan of Food and Tell – post is up!
Joyce and Frank of Foodies Adventures in Vancouver – check Joyce’s perspective and Frank’s perspective.
Kevin of 604 Foodtography – post is up!
Sherman of Sherman’s Food Adventures – post is up!
Reader and frequent commenter Anita.
Jenny with Ricky and Joyce with Frank chose to have dessert on-site; however, some of us decided to go to Dulcinea for dessert afterwards. Hopefully that will be blogged as well!
As mentioned on my post Monday on No. 1 Beef Noodle House, there are places I have not gone for several reasons. Now, I will add another reason: Because I am uncool. I can go on and on on this topic; let’s just say that I don’t follow most trends and/or activities people my age would usually do. As an odd consequence, there are areas I don’t feel like going, which translates into restaurants that it will be unlikely I will visit. Which areas? Yaletown, Gastown, et al. So, when I read about the Long Table Series, I wanted to go; however, I felt the need to go with somebody else. Fortunately, Ms. H was happy to tag along…
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Downtown,
Drinks,
Gastown,
Pork,
Vancouver
Cockney Kings Fish & Chips
6500 Hastings Street
1005 Columbia Street (Location visited)
New Westminster, BC
Despite there were interesting options during my trip to Scottsdale (again, there were several dozen restaurants in the couple of block radius near my hotel), I have to mention I wanted to come back to Vancouver. Sure, weather was nicer in Scottsdale but Vancouver is the place I now call home. The night after I came back, I wanted something “Vancouver” and, being a coastal city, what “better” option that fish and chips? Of course, given all the options in the city, the usual question is “where”? Not wanting to drive to Steveston, I looked for other options and, as a result, I ended up in Cockney Kings Fish & Chips.
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Fish,
New Westminster,
Seafood
Bacon
4175 North Goldwater Blvd
Scottsdale, AZ
Confession time: Depending on how far in advance I am aware of a customer engagement, I might do some on-line checks of the restaurant near the hotel/workplace. Sometimes, of course, it does not work that way. However, for this trip, while checking nearby restaurants, I found Bacon. At that point, I told myself: I HAVE to go there! I mean, I like pork and, with a restaurant name like this, why shouldn’t I?
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Breakfast,
Sandwich,
Scottsdale
Saddle Ranch Chop House
4 Locations in California and Arizona
4321 North Scottsdale Road (Location visited)
Scottsdale, AZ
Near the Scottsdale Old Town area I was staying in, one thing was quite evident. The architecture had sort-of a cowboy motif built-in. Could it be I am stereotyping? May be, may be not; it does not help the city’s seal and logo has a cowboy in it. With such environment, it can’t be helped to say I had to visit one of such restaurants and the one I ended up going was Saddle Ranch Chop House.
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Dessert,
Sandwich,
Scottsdale
Note: Today, I have two post! This is the second one of two – the “other” one is called “Cooking Shows“.
In the last couple of days, the weather has gone sideways. Weather almost hit 0C/32F for a couple of days and we are not even winter yet! Likewise, it has been raining in the last couple of days! Now, rain as in actual rain, not that drizzle that seems to last forever. Anyway, in a small gap between those two wacky instances of Vancouver’s weather, I went to my favourite garden: Van Dusen Botanical Garden, which I have blogged previously – 2008 Festival of Lights, 2008 Festival of Lights Dancing Lights and pictures in spring. (On that note, I also visited Queen Elizabeth Park, my other favourite garden/park. Pictures coming next week!). So, enjoy this photo essay!
Note: For a larger version of the picture, just click on it – will open in a new window.
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Photo Essay
