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Pho

Where do you get your pho fix in Edmonton?

In case you didn’t know, pho is Vietnamese noodle soup, and there are restaurants all over the city that specialize in it. There’s even one chain, Pho Hoa, with four locations in Edmonton.


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Playing with the Queen of Tarts

Beloved City Market vendor Linda Kearney debuted her storefront bakery and cafe in Edmonton's historic downtown warehouse district Thursday.


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Cafe de Ville

Cafe de Ville hits one out in the Park

Busy, prosperous Sherwood Park offers opportunities for restaurateurs willing to take a flyer on pitching the top-end experience. Cafe de Ville owners apparently thought so, opening their first spinoff outside Edmonton in the busy burb in December.


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Keep up to date on Edmonton's food scene

Every month, Delux Burger Bar invites a Celebrity Chef to design a signature burger.


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Copper Pot

Edmonton Downtown Dining Week offers range of eating possibilities

A record of 32 eateries — from Lit, Lux and Lazia to Ric’s, Ruth’s and Rutherford’s — are participating in this year’s Downtown Dining Week, March 3 to 14, offering casual to fine dining set menus at a range of prices.


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Chef Nathan Saurette, Niche restaurant

New Edmonton restaurant find its Niche downtown

There was a time when the search for a downtown restaurant would leave diners cocking their heads, scrunching their eyes and wondering, wondering, “Where to go?” These days, there is a sense of excitement and burgeoning choice when it comes to picking a place for downtown date night, or somewhere to grab a couple of apples and a glass of wine to chase away the week.


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Video: Niche chef sings beef's praises

Chef Nathan Saurette from Niche restaurant on Jasper Avenue in Edmonton describes his favorite cut of meat as he prepares and plates Braised Beef Cheeks with Tagliatelle. Video by Shaughn Butts, Edmonton Journal.


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Recipe: Braised Short Ribs with Tagliatelle

Chef Nathan Saurette makes braised beef cheeks at Niche restaurant, but beef cheeks are not that easy to come by. Short ribs are a good substitute.


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Pampa Brazilian Steak House opens

Plus, news on chef Blair Lebsack, a Napa Valley wine dinner at Sage restaurant, vegan pizzas at Earth's General Store, the Edmonton High School Culinary Challenge, and food activist Vandana Shiva in Calgary.


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Wine and food pairing a high art

It was three weeks after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre that I was called on to make my toughest wine-and-food pairing decision.


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Beloved Bistro Praha back from the ashes

Friends have long chided me for my belief that the greatest pleasures in life are rarely reproduced the second time around. There’s a glorious slip of sand on Spain’s Costa Brava that my wife and I shall never see again. The homecoming couldn’t possibly measure up. The greatest novels are truly met only at first reading. Savour a brilliant performance and forget the encore: magic is caught in a bottle...


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Bistro Praha

Gallery: Bistro Praha Grand Opening

One of Edmonton's signature restaurants, the Bistro Praha, has reopened after a March 2009 fire forced the closure of the old location in the Kelly Ramsey block on Rice Howard Way. The new location is at 10117 101st St. Here's the scene at the party Feb 1, 2011 as well as some shots from the old location and the fire.


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Brazilian steak house to open in Edmonton

I’m really excited about the upcoming opening of the new Brazilian steak house, Pampa, run by co-owners Oscar Mauricio Lopez (the grill master) and Joao Antonio Dachery (the Brazilian chef in charge of the kitchen).


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Thai Valley Grill

Thai Valley Grill a gem in Edmonton food scene

While others may head for balmy climes this time of year, when we need a break from the cold and snow of winter, we trek to the warm and cosy atmosphere, and hot and spicy fare of the Thai Valley Grill.


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Nate Box

Restaurants, foodies connect — and score deals — through social media

When Nate Box opened the Elm Café, the owner-chef took out exactly one newspaper ad. The $198 spot in the Oliver paper may have directed some attention to the new eatery, but nothing compared to the social media website Twitter.


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Celebrity chef shooting show in Edmonton

Celebrity Chef David Adjey is in town, shooting a segment of his show The Opener, which follows fledgling restaurateurs as they open new eateries. He’s working with the as-yet-to-open Edmonton restaurant, Pampa Brazilian Steakhouse.


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Sweet Lollapalooza

Food Notes: Sweet Lollapalooza, Fork Fest, Educated Palate

Brett Roy, the owner of Sweet Lollapalooza Confections, the high-end chocolatier in Manulife Place, says he has a new kind of Peruvian chocolate coming into his shop that’s the candy equivalent of dinosaur DNA.


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