Champagne Wednesdays

(Please ignore the covert, spy-quality blackberry photo) Risky business(es): 1) Intravenous Drugs; 2) Opening a restaurant next to the Ivanhoe. Undercover as a grossly ignored corner of Vancouver’s most troubled area, something interesting springs to life. A restaurant. It kind of reminds me of this:   Having been raised in East Vancouver, the word “Ivanhoe” conjures up a lot of imagery pertaining [...]

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No actual champagne, that is. But I promise, we were still very champagne-like in spirit. You see, Ash had a craving for sweet and sour pork. So, wandering we went down Commercial Drive with Whiskey in tow to scope out Chongqing (the Szechuan place on the corner of Commercial and 12th that has really great [...]

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Good Friday. A good day for adventure. Ash and I headed out to a little coffee place we found off Commercial Street – Little Nest – and found so much more. A wide, white expanse of a café as comfortable as any living room (family and children included). Bistro-sophistication: The occasional toddler-sized pickpocket aside, the [...]

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