From the category archives:

BC Restaurants

Chasters Restaurant, Gibsons, BC

August 8, 2012

Last weekend, I headed over to the Sunshine Coast with a couple of girlfriends that I’ve known since I was only 6 years old. We grew up together in the small Northern town of Terrace, BC, and were going to visit another great friend of ours for a baby shower and meet her 3-week old [...]

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Sushi Sen (Squamish)

December 15, 2010

Vancouver has some fantastic sushi places, so I’m always a little skeptical when hearing someone praise a sushi restaurant in most other cities (well, besides Japan). So, when I first heard about Sushi Sen, I had the same initial hesitation. Located in Squamish, BC, the cooks are actually Japanese (good first sign!), and I’ve heard [...]

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Ebizo Sushi (Victoria)

October 6, 2010

This post takes me back to my university years. I had never tried sushi before at that point (around 11 or 12 years ago now), and went with a girlfriend to try it out for the first time at Ebizo Sushi in downtown Victoria. I remember trying a dynamite roll and another cooked roll (probably [...]

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Burrowing Owl Restaurant (Sonora Room)

September 28, 2010

Earlier this summer, when I was in the Okanagan for a wedding over one weekend, a large group of the guests met up at Burrowing Owl in Oliver to eat at their restaurant for lunch in the Sonora Room. We’d come from a few other tastings earlier that morning already (yes, we started before noon [...]

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Villa 46 Mediterranean Restaurant in Terrace, BC

March 14, 2010

This is a guest post by a friend of mine who recently went up and tried a fairly new restaurant opened by another friend of mine in my hometown of Terrace, B.C. While I haven’t been back for almost ten years, she has been there a few times recently for work, so I lived vicariously [...]