Posts Tagged with "Gourmet"

Corner Café: The Bullshit Club

July 14, 2008

Corner Café is an authentic greasy spoon run by an older Korean couple on Pemberton Avenue in North Vancouver. The menu is simple: all-day breakfast, burgers, sandwiches and coffee. Its interior has not been renovated since the ’40s. Eating there is like going back in time.

Dog Dialysis, Bananas and A Walking Turn-On

July 6, 2008

There’s ad copy, and then there’s bitchin ad copy. Case in point, this sweet insertion for one easy piece (a ’70s one-piece suit). “Easy on and easy off, quick as a flick of her tongue. Sexy cool crinkle cloth for those hot nights to come.” Be sure to “show where your headed in the [...]

Vibrators and Rap Battles

June 17, 2008

Publishing long and descriptive blog posts is a waste of time. People who read the web are lazy bastard “informavores” solely after the “low hanging fruit”. If not intrigued within a split second, they’ll click off of your page. Think bulleted lists, short sentence fragments, loads of links and explanatory subheads. 
Does North America even innovate [...]

Kebabs

April 28, 2008

The locals in France laugh with disbelief when I tell them that Sushi restaurants in Vancouver are abundant, and that a standard 10 dollar sushi plate in Vancouver is the equivalent of a 50 euro plate in France. Disgusted by the high costs, folks in these parts don’t typically eat sushi, rather they opt out [...]

On The Cheap

April 9, 2008

With the euro now fluctuating between 1.6 to 1.7 CAD, traveling France is extremely pricey. For the most part, everything costs double what it would in Canada. To put it in perspective, the average pint will run you between five and nine euros, which after converting to Canadian dollars is somewhere between eight and 15 [...]

Desperados

April 7, 2008

You won’t find it in Mexico, but in France, Desperados is available at every café, alimentation and grocery store. Desperados is a tequila flavored beer designed after the Mexican tradition of drinking beer with a shot of tequila. It’s 5.9%, available in regular and tallboy glass bottles, and it tastes a lot like ginger ale [...]

Next Page