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FOOD FIGHT: Paradise Vegetarian Noodle House embraces fresh flavours
January 18, 2016Paradise Vegetarian Noodle House in Burnaby lives up to its name — behold, vegans, here is your Vietnamese food paradise. The extensive 100 per cent vegan, no MSG menu won’t break your bank any more than a typical Vietnamese restaurant in Vancouver; this is what gives grand bragging rights to this small restaurant shoved in a corner of a hidden community shopping centre. A place like this is worth the trek (being on a street somewhat disregarded by public transit) because it’s unique both in concept and product to any other fully vegan restaurant in Metro Vancouver. This business has…
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Food Fight: Original’s offers authentic Mexican cuisine
November 23, 2015To celebrate Dia de los Muertos, my friend and I decided to try the newly opened Mexican restaurant in New Westminster Station, Original’s Cafe Mexicano. We were not disappointed. As soon as you walk inside, you notice how refreshingly spacious…
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Food Fight: tantalize your taste buds at Salt Tasting Room
November 16, 2015Tucked away in the alley just across from Blood Alley Square is a gem of a restaurant, Salt Tasting Room. While not new on the Vancouver restaurant scene, this hidden location makes it feel like a new discovery when you…
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Taste of Yaletown offers high class cuisine for less
November 2, 2015Taste of Yaletown is an annual festival featuring Yaletown restaurants offering special tastings, featured menus, and pairings. The fixed price menus won’t set you back in your budget with offerings at $25, $35, and $45 per person, and a portion…
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Food Fight: Cafe Deux Soleils is the ultimate veggie hipster eatery
November 2, 2015The ambiance of Café Deux Soleils explodes out the doors onto their large, scenically painted entrance wall. It is easy to see that their goal is to make a healthy and trendy home-away-from-home aimed to be a hub for casual…
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Gyoza Bar offers a new take on traditional Japanese
October 19, 2015The exposed brick wall of a heritage building makes an unlikely interior for a Japanese restaurant, but Gyoza Bar carefully captures that balance between homeliness and urban fare. Located within walking distance of SFU’s Vancouver campuses, Gyoza Bar offers fusion…
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Food Fight: IKEA makes for a surprisingly good restaurant
October 19, 2015IKEA is amazing. It is filled to the rafters with enough affordable flat-pack furniture to keep marriage counselors in business until the sun swallows the planets whole, and a showroom that can keep even those with the shortest attention span…
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New recipe book proves tea is timeless
September 28, 2015Afternoon Tea: A Timeless Tradition is so much more than a recipe book — it’s a narrative. More than half the book is a flashback to Muriel Moffat’s personal fond childhood memories and the historical formalities of afternoon tea. This…
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Food Fight: homemade vegan feast
September 28, 2015Welcome to our brand new foodie corner of The Peak! This column is a collaboration between two friends with opposing diets: a meat-eater (Jess) and a vegan (Gems). This serves as a way of critiquing food from opposite lifestyles, and…
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The Acorn brings you brunch
August 4, 2015The Acorn and Luke’s General Store are collaborating to introduce the most exquisite vegan/vegetarian brunch in Metro Vancouver. The Acorn restaurant on Main Street at 24th, highly reputable among food critics, is proudly and successfully serving my favourite meal of…
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