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FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 08, 2015 11:07 AM MDT | UPDATED: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 08, 2015 11:19 AM MDT
A fun desert at Sorrentino's Mushroom Harvest Festival.
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Sorrentino’s Mushroom Harvest Festival
At all Sorrentino’s locations in September:
Downtown, 10162-100 St.
South, 4208 Calgary Trail
West, 6867-170 St.
Little Italy, 10844-95 St.
St. Albert, 595 St. Albert Road
and
Bistecca Italian Steak House, 2345-111 St.
Food: 4.5 of 5 Suns
Dinner for two excluding drinks and tip: Basic, $70, loaded, $120
Twenty-one years, for an annual food festival, is a long run. Think of a favourite restaurant where you took your new-born for a family ...
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FIRST POSTED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 04, 2015 11:32 AM MDT | UPDATED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 04, 2015 12:25 PM MDT
A coffee shop displays signs for Visa, MasterCard and Discover. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/Files)
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Alberta Minister of Finance says deficit to hit $5.9 billion, or more, in first quarter fiscal update
Gunter: Alberta NDP needs to rein in spending
Gunter: There's no one home under Alberta's Dome
Alberta could be facing largest deficit in three decades
Wildrose leader Brian Jean says Notley NDP could be decimated in next election if they “govern to the left”
I think I am economically crazy.
All my adult life, I have abhorred borrowing.
My wife and I paid off the house mortgage as quickly as possible. We buy used cars, paying cash. Our kids, with our help, graduated from post-secondary schools debt-free. T ...
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FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 01, 2015 10:35 AM MDT | UPDATED: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 01, 2015 10:46 AM MDT
The Lomo Saltado or “Jumping Steak.”
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Azucar Picante
13062 50 St.
780-479-7400
www.azucar-picante.ca
Tues-Thurs: 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Friday-Sat: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m.
Sun: 1:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Closed Mondays
Food: 4 of 5 Suns
Ambience: 3 of 5 Suns
Service: 3.5 of 5 Suns
Dinner for two excluding drinks and tip: Basic, $30; loaded, $60
It’s a tad bizarre.
Not a tad: Very bizarre!
The best Latin food in Edmonton, the best Peruvian food to be had in all A ...
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FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2015 09:51 AM MDT | UPDATED: TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2015 09:59 AM MDT
A Gini’s special of the day: Kangaroo tenderloin medallions. Photo by Graham Hicks
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Gini’s Restaurant — Exquisite French Fine Dining
10706 142 Street
780-451-1169
www.gini'srestaurant.ca
Tues.-Fri. 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. (10 p.m. Fridays)
Sat. 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Closed Sundays
Food: 4 of 5 Suns
Ambience: 4 of 5 Suns
Service: 4 of ...
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FIRST POSTED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2015 12:01 PM MDT | UPDATED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2015 03:15 PM MDT
Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson takes part in an Executive Committee Meeting at City Hall, in Edmonton Alta. on Tuesday Aug. 18, 2015. David Bloom/Edmonton Sun
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It's not to be brought up lightly - city hall can't be blamed for everything - but Edmonton City Council must be questioning the competence of its city manager and his top transportation department management.
One delay might be annoying but tolerable.
Two delays, even more annoyi ...
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FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 09:32 AM MDT | UPDATED: TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 09:44 AM MDT
The Italian Bakery made-to-order deli sandwich. Photo by Graham Hicks
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Hicks' Weekly Dish: Sumo Sumo makes excellent sushi
Hicks' Weekly Dish: RGE RD, Not your mama's liver!
Hicks' weekly dish: Subpar sushi
Hicks' Weekly Dish: Sweet, but too sweet!
Hicks' weekly dish: Restaurant crawl
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What is … a delicatessen?
A deli or delicatessen used to be a food shop with long glass display cases full of slabs of cold cuts or cured meats and whee ...
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FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2015 12:54 PM MDT | UPDATED: TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2015 01:05 PM MDT
12 Acres’ beef/tomato tartare with Saskatoon jelly and wedge potatoes.
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12 Acres Restaurant
8 Mission Avenue, St. Alberta
780-569-1779
12acres.ca
No reservations other than large parties
Tues.-Wed., 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Thurs.-Sat. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Sunday, 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Closed Mondays
Food: 4 of 5 Suns
Ambience: 4 of 5 Suns
Service: 4 of 5 Suns
Dinner for two excluding drinks and tip: Basic, $50; loaded, $75
Graham Hicks
780 707 6379
graham.hicks@hicksbiz.com
www.hicksbiz.com
@hicksonsix
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FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, AUGUST 04, 2015 10:30 AM MDT | UPDATED: TUESDAY, AUGUST 04, 2015 10:41 AM MDT
The Pinchos (tapas-like) seafood board featured in the August-long SABOR Restaurant Seafood Festival. Photo by Graham Hicks
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Hicks Weekly Dish: Taste of Edmonton simply 'awful'
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Hicks' Weekly Dish: Sahara Bar & Grill Lebanese-Mediterranean food superb
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It’s the very good gourmet burgers, the friendly but contemporary décor, the beer taps all featuring Alley Kat and Wild Rose brewery beers, but, most of all, it’s the people.
The franchise owners of the new Relish Gourmet Burgers, John and Julie Wallace, are good people ...
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FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2015 09:46 AM MDT | UPDATED: TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2015 09:58 AM MDT
Sahara starters: clockwise from upper left, hummus, kibbeh nayeh, baba ghaouji and fatoush with string cheese. Photo by Graham Hicks
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Sahara Mediterranean and Canadian Cuisine
#110, 10807 Castledowns Road|
780-371-1113
saharaedmonton.com
11 a.m. to 1 a.m. seven days a week
Food: 4.5 of 5 Suns
Ambience: 3.5 of 5 Suns
Service: 3 of 5 Suns
Dinner for two excluding drinks and tip: Basic, $40; loaded, $70
Graham Hicks
780 707 6379
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The dispersion of ethnic communities in this League of Nations we know as Edmonton has always been intriguing.
Why didn’t the Filipinos congregate in one neighbourhood? They’re dispersed ...
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Get Cooking Presents Edmonton Food Fight 5: The Taste Edition
It was fun, loud and hard on the feet.
“Food Fight” was conceived by three foodies – chef Eric Hanson, just back from a long leisurely jaunt around southeast Asia, Get Cooking cooking school owner/hospitality activist Kathryn Joel, and, showing a human side, Greenpeace anti-oilsands spokesperson Mike Hudema.
They are fans of the “gritty reality” TV cooking shows like Knife Fight or Cutthroat Kitchen. As they talked, they figured Edmontonians would pay to enjoy a good, intense, well-produced show-biz cooking competition featuring local chefs with strong personalities.
By the third Food Fight, the production was gaining credibility. Food Fight IV took place at the wildly successful Porkapalooza BBQ festival, attended by over 40,000 people at the east-end Borden Park.
Food Fight V happened last Sunday, July 19, staged in the Sip ‘N’ Savour tent at Taste of Edmonton in Churchill Square.
All the co ...
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