Calgary Restaurants – Calgary Food Blog

Well another year is over and it is once again that time to pick our favorite restaurants for the year. Who would have thought that our number one pick for last year would have gone down in a blaze of self-destructive glory. This years list proved to be the toughest selection ever. Mainly because what [...]

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La Belle Patate, our favorite little poutine shop in Canmore made the national news last week. They were featured on CBC is a piece that very accurately describes the best fry shop in the mountains. We were there this afternoon, and the story has had a huge impact on business. If you haven’t been there [...]

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Last weekend the Food Network’s Eat St. was in Calgary filming for a second time. This time around they filmed Mighty Skillet, Naaco, and Braizen. All three trucks were in fine form and a lot of fun was had by the trucks, the reviewers, and the crew. Am Eat St. record was even broken. Naaco [...]

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Three or four years ago North America was on a health kick. McDonald’s was adding salads to their menu, Krispy Kreme donuts damn near went out of business, and opening a burger, poutine, or pizza place was nothing short of crazy. Oh how times have changed. In today’s world, delicious not so healthy food is [...]

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The Fries & Dolls episode of eat street is coming up on food channel this week on May 23rd. Check your local listings for times. See the preview featuring foodies – including myself – from around the city below. I enthusiastically declared the dolls to have the best poutine in the city, which might have [...]

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Before I get started, let me tell you this – if you are on our email list we will be sending you an amazing offer tomorrow that you can only get if you are on the list. So if you aren’t on it, get on it Now, lets talk about Veuve. Next Tuesday Petite is [...]

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It looks to be an unassuming house oddly located on the busy main thoroughfare of Bridgeland. If you look a little closer however, you realize that the little house has a little sign that highlights a single word, Pimento’s. On second look, you realize that the building is not a house at all, but the [...]

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Top Chef Canada is returning for a second season, and has just released the contenders list. Representing Calgary is Xavier Lacaze of Muse. Muse is one of our favorite restaurants, and we encourage you to check them out. If the influx of customers to Charcut has been any indication, you may want to do it prior to Muse blowing up as a result of their Top Chef Status.

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Sometime on January 15th the owners of Charcut will be opening up a secret temporary restaurant in a temporary location. Charpop, is yet another ingenious idea from the folks that brought us the Alley Burger. The idea is to create a restaurant that has limited space, limited seating, and is for a limited time, which [...]

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Well we ran down our list of top restaurants for 2011 last week, this week we are on to our top 5 new restaurants for 2011. While Petite made Gilchrist’s list, we are going to omit them as a new restaurant seeing as the took the top spot for our favorites anyways, and were around [...]

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It is that time of year again where we select our favorite restaurants. For 2011 several of 2010′s top picks made the list again, although in a somewhat different order. While last years list focused on foodie havens, this years list is all about restaurants that simply blew us away. It was the combination of [...]

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What to do on New Years in Calgary? Two great Calgary restaurants are set to ring in the  New Year with 5 course dinners guaranteed to the best meals you will likely have in 2012. Petite’s New Years Eve celebration will have two seatings, the first a four course menu at 5:30 for $80, the [...]

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