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Canada

Peas Calgary

Model Milk Chilled Summer Peas

17th Calgary Avenue SW between downtown and Lower Mount Royal is probably Calgary’s trendiest stretch, and chef Justin Leboe has played a big part in that pocket’s realization. He runs three businesses at the...
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Chinese Food Calgary

Calan Hand Pulled Noodle in Beef Soup

My family had one meal left in Calgary before driving to Canmore and Canada’s Civic Holiday severely limited our choices. Earlier in the trip, I’d researched demographics and saw Chinese-Canadians accounted for 10% of...
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Coffee Calgary

Phil & Sebastian Coffee Roasters Black & Tonic

Not many coffee companies were hatched in a lab, but that’s the case with Phil & Sebastian Coffee Roasters. The famed Calgary roaster can be traced to former college lab partners Phil Robertson and...
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Vancouver Island

Tofino Food Worth Seeking

Tofino is a bohemian surf town with a surprisingly good culinary scene on Vancouver Island’s south shore. According to a brief Tofino History, Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations people have lived along beautiful Clayoquot Sound for...
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Sculpture Victoria

Victoria Food Worth Seeking

Victoria, the capital of British Columbia and the largest city on majestic Vancouver Island, was renamed in 1843 in honor of Britain’s Queen Victoria. Restaurants in this quaint, walkable city across the Strait of...
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Nanaimo Bar Nanaimo

Nanaimo Bars from Mon Petit Choux + Bocca Cafe

Nanaimo, a town on the northeast coast of British Columbia’s Vancouver Island, is the birthplace of the Nanaimo bar, a chilled square crafted with layers of chocolate, buttercream, and a base made with ingredients...
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