Archive for the ‘Food’ Category

Thunderbird/Calendar drinks & food

After a long day of talking about calendaring at CalConnect, some of the Mozilla calendar & mail folks (hopefully at least Daniel, Christian, Dan, Clint and David) will be going out for drinks & more food on Tuesday Feb 5 Wednesday, Feb 6, starting around 8pm or so at the Oasis beer garden. Please [...]

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Hon’s

People usually refer to Vancouver as a really good place for high-end Chinese food. I wouldn’t know, as our taste are more pedestrian. For future reference, last night’s order at Hon’s was the best we’ve achieved so far:

6 pork pan-fried gyoza
springrolls (mistake, no one ate them)
tender duck leg soup with orange peel and udon [...]

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Cheap Eats

One of the things I love about downtown vancouver is the abundance of good, cheap eateries. I’ve grown quite averse to large chains (too much subversive reading, I guess), so I’m pleased to see thriving neighborhood places that offer good food at good prices.
Now that it’s been in the paper, Caffe Artigiano on [...]

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Summer’s here!

Flank steak on the grill with sweet corn on the cob, followed by ice cream from the local ice cream store for dessert. The tomatoes are MIA, and we’ll agree to ignore the cold that just kicked into high gear and the weekend full of rain. It is summer, so say I.

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