Sweet Collaboration
While we’ve had some incredible meals in Calgary, it’s not often a food story brings you to tears. But we found ourselves wiping our eyes when speaking with Buddy’s Bakery founder [...]
Local Supporting Local
Last summer during the pandemic, Canadian company Sobeys created a unique box featuring an assortment of products from local Alberta companies. It was their way of supporting local while encouraging customers [...]
The Bees Knees
Honey in cocktails? Yes, please. Invented during the Prohibition era, the Bees Knees is a simple gin sour with one notable difference – it’s sweetened with honey syrup. As the legend [...]
Honey
HONEY - A CRASH COURSE What’s all the buzz? What exactly is honey? Honey bees collect two raw ingredients from flowering plants, pollen and nectar. While pollen is used mostly as [...]
New Kid on the Block
The “Blockheads” (their word, not ours) have done it again as Jared and Aja Kichula take their infamous barbecue to Mission adding South Block to Comery and Hayden Blocks – this [...]
Buzzing with Excitement
Fall harvest, Thanksgiving, Halloween – so many things to be thankful for this season. In this issue, we are shining light on a few of Alberta’s well-known movers and shakers plus [...]
Say Uncle
The Korean fried chicken craze has found its way south as the team behind Okotoks’ Yokozuna Sushi has opened Uncle K’s Korean Fried Chicken and Katsu a few blocks away. As [...]
Jewel in a Jar
You know when you have a hankering for cake, and you know if you bake one you’ll eat the whole thing in a spiral of self-loathing and sugar highs? No? Just [...]
Fried Chicken & Waffles with Hot Honey Butter
We have a lot of great honey in Alberta, particularly on the prairies — Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba account for almost 80 per cent of our national production, and bees provide [...]
Taste the Difference
Shop Local Fall harvest, Thanksgiving, Halloween – so many things to be thankful for this season. In this issue, we are shining light on a few of Alberta’s well-known movers and [...]
Major Tom (Really) Makes the Grade
Look up. Waaaaaaay up! See that sweet retro dining room in the penthouse of Stephen Avenue Place? That’s the latest hot spot in Concorde Group’s offering – Major Tom. With floor-to-ceiling [...]
Pizza and Jazz
TOTO Pizza When it comes to Italian food, Calgary’s cup runneth over. Tony Nicastro (there are two Tony Nicastro’s in the restaurant scene here!) grew up in the business working alongside [...]