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Meat & Bread (Pender Street)

Posted in Cafe, Joyce, Lunch, Meat, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Vancouver, tagged Coal Harbour, cracklings, Food Network, Guy Fieri, Meat & Bread, Pender Street, Porchetta, pork fat, Triple D on January 30, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Meat & Bread didn’t really catch my attention until I saw it feature in an episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. In fact, it was precisely at 5:13 of this clip that made me decide that I have to try this place.

Naturally, I was very excited to learn that they’re opening a second location on Pender Street, only steps away from my office. We were counting down the days to its opening, yet several months later we still haven’t stepped inside the store. Must be the “it’s so close we can go anytime” mentality.

Finally, for a team lunch we chose Meat & Bread as our destination. This is it – the moment a few of us have been waiting for!

Lunch lineup at the door

Food

It just smells so good as soon as you walk inside. There’s a staff chopping mushrooms right in front of you. Then another dicing the house-made porchetta.

Chopping & dicing the Porchetta

Without hesitation I ordered a Porchetta Sandwich. Because there’s limited seating in store, we ordered our sandwiches to go. But I was able to take a glimpse of my sandwich before it went into the box. Argh the anticipation! (more…)

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[VanFoodies eat Portland] Brunch Box: For the Hungry [Food Truck]

Posted in Brunch, Food Truck Series, Food Trucks, Lunch, Meat, Mr., Restaurants, Sandwiches, Travel, U.S., tagged Brunch Box, Eat Street, food cart, Food Network, Grilled Cheese, Oregon, Portland, youcanhascheeseburger on October 25, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Having driven through Portland numerous times on the way to the Coast, I’ve never stopped in long enough to really appreciated this wonderful city. The culture, the night life, and the food are outstanding. Everywhere you go, Portland feels alive.

Anyways enough about my love for the city. Let’s talk about the food, at Brunch Box.

Overview

For those of you that watch the Food Network, you might’ve seen Brunch Box being featured on “Eat Street”. As the name would suggest, this cart serves breakfast and lunch items.

It was a busy place. Quite a few people were waiting in line during the lunch rush. Small wonder considering the waves of buttery and meaty flavours that danced through the air.

Brunchbox

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Favourite Food TV Shows ft. Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag Season Premiere

Posted in By Invitations, Food Bloggers, Joyce, News, Product Reviews, Random, tagged Anna & Kristina's Grocery Bag, Anna Wallner, Chopped, Dale MacKay, Eat St., Food Network, Guy Fieri, Kristina Matisic, Master Chef, OWN Canada, The Next Food Network Star, The Next Iron Chef, Top Chef, Top Chef Canada, Trevor Bird, Triple D, TV, World's Weirdest Restaurants, You Gotta Eat Here on September 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Having a full-time job during the day and blogging in the evenings and on the weekends take up a lot of my time, but surprisingly I manage to find time to watch some TV as my stress relief. And to no surprise, most of the TV shows I watch are food related, including:

Master Chef (currently on, and Team Christine right here!)
Top Chef Canada (was rooting for Dale MacKay and Trevor Bird)
Top Chef (the amateur version, Top Chef Masters doesn’t really appeal to me)
The Next Iron Chef (the Super Chefs edition was awesome – Chef Geoffrey Zakarian was great!)
The Next Food Network Star (although the winner tends to start with a crappy spot like late morning/mid-afternoon on a weekday)
Chopped (didn’t like the Grill Masters edition)
You Gotta Eat Here and Eat St. (to see the BC coverage)
Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (love Guy Fieri!)
World’s Weirdest Restaurants (chances are I won’t eat at those places myself, so it’s fun to watch about them!)

In addition, Mr. has introduced me to Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag. It used to be on the W Network, but now it’s on OWN Canada. I was actually surprised that not many people have heard of the show, because I thought it’s quite a unique idea: two amateur chefs (and they’re locally from BC!) testing cookbooks and kitchen products so we as audience know what to get/use for our own home cooking. I have watched numerous episodes from its past 3 seasons and was excited to learn that they are back for its 4th season.

Anna & Kristina

And to make it even better, I was invited to the premiere screening of the 4th season of A&K’s Grocery Bag this past Tuesday. (more…)

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[Food Truck] Tacofino Blue

Posted in Casual, Food Truck Series, Food Trucks, Joyce, Lunch, Restaurants, Seafood, Snacks, Vancouver, tagged Eat St., fish taco, food cart, Food Network, Tacofino Blue, Tofino on July 23, 2012| 4 Comments »

Searching for an impromptu afternoon snack, TW, MP and I decided to check out Tacofino Blue. This food truck was originally from Tofino, and it has previously appeared on Eat St. on Food Network.

Tacofino Blue

Believe it or not, Tacofino Blue is like 1 minute away from my office and until this date I have never been. I guess it’s the mentality of “well it’s so close I can always come by later”. Yes, a visit is over due.

Food

Because we were only looking for a small snack, we each grabbed one Fish Taco. Here is a picture of what 2 fish tacos look like, since MP and I shared a plate:

Fish Taco – Tempura battered ling cod with chipotle mayo, shredded cabbage and salsa fresca on a fire toasted flour tortilla.

For some reason when I heard “tempura battered” I have imagined it would be a different texture, but the fried ling cod reminds me of those in fish and chips. (more…)

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[VanFoodies eat Portland] Voodoo Doughnut

Posted in Breakfast, Casual, Chocolate, Dessert, Joyce, Restaurants, Travel, U.S., tagged donuts, Food Network, maple bacon, Oregon, Portland, Voodoo Doughnut, World's Weirdest Restaurants on June 18, 2012| 1 Comment »

After we confirmed our trip to Oregon, the first thing I did was to ask fellow bloggers for dining recommendations in Oregon. A number of you guys got back to me, each offering a different list of restaurants. However, one particular place showed up on every list – Voodoo Doughnut.

Voodoo Doughnut, Portland

As soon as I started writing this post I knew I’m going to have some problem typing “doughnut” instead of “donut”. The funny thing is, according to the Oxford Dictionary, “donut” is American spelling. Be prepared to see “doughnut” and “donut” being used interchangeably here.

Line up!

So it was 10:30pm on a Friday, and when this is usually the time for most part of Vancouver (except for the Granville district, or Gastown) to turn into a ghost town, Portland Old Town was bustling. Bars were busy, food trucks were still taking orders, lots of people on the street. In fact, there was a 30-people line up outside of this Voodoo Doughnut location. We chatted with a couple of locals, and they said this was nothing, that usually the line up would be way longer. And apparently we missed an exciting mayoral donut-eating contest. Did I mention that Voodoo Doughnut opens 24-7? I suppose there is a super huge demand for donuts, in particular Voodoo Doughnut, in Portland.

Long lineup for donuts!

Food

Menu board – lots to choose from

There are just way too many donuts to choose from. They need to use not one, but two display cases to show them all. And a gigantic blackboard to list them out. All donuts are hand-made, thus each donut would have its unique icing/glaze/decorations.