There’s nothing I love more than spending a winter morning by the water. I love the mist, the cold breeze, and what I particularly love about Lonsdale Quay is sitting out on the market patio and seeing the Vancouver skyline across the water. It’s as beautiful shrouded in clouds and fog as it is in…
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The Christmas Market
I went to the Christmas Market last week. I’ll be honest, I’m not into arts & crafts, so I pretty much just went for the food: waffles, bratwurst, spaetzle, mulled wine and apple cider. In true Vancouver style, it poured the night we went, but in a way only a true Vancouverite could appreciate, the…
Bacon Cupcakes
Bacon is not something you’d typically associate with cupcakes. Neither is King Kong or a Buffalo wing. Typically, you’d think vanilla or chocolate and pastel buttercream, much like the ones you’d find at Butter. But apparently, things are changing. Mancakes is located right next door to our favourite ramen place, Jinya Ramen Bar downtown, so…
Home is Rain or Shine Ice Cream
Apart from snow on the ground, today was very much typical of December in Vancouver – 2 degrees and wet – the perfect day for ice cream at newly opened Rain or Shine Ice Cream in Kits. Vanilla is my favourite flavour ever – it’s not lame – and Rain or Shine’s vanilla is my…
Home is the Seawall and Ramen
The shortest day of the year in Vancouver also happened to be snowy and one of the coldest, and I could think of no better way to warm up than with black ramen at Jinya downtown. I’ve missed frosty morning walks with the pup – solo early morning runs by the Detroit river just don’t…
Home is Hot Chocolate & Macarons
After nearly half a day of planes and airports, I am finally home for Christmas. I can’t even describe how happy I am – it feels like forever ago that I woke up in my own bed with Stella next to me. All I wanted to do today was sleep in, but because I’m apparently…
Missing Trafiq Café
So October just flew by: Thanksgiving came and went, Halloween happened, and suddenly it’s November, we’re falling back an hour and Movember is in full swing. The temperature’s dropped, and it’s that time of year again: exams are just over a month away. And I am in desperate need of a quiet coffee shop to…
Chocolate Cure
When they say chocolate solves everything, they aren’t lying. I can 100% attest to that fact, and especially if it’s a Beta5 chocolate bar. I don’t like the fact that I live 4000 km from Beta5, but thankfully I have parents who don’t mind being tasked with picking up my favourites and sending them over….
Sweater Weather in Vancouver
I’m in Vancouver for Thanksgiving, and fall is definitely in full swing: the leaves have turned, and it’s a perfect 7 degrees, just the way I like it. Perfect sweater weather on a perfect day, missing only a steaming cappuccino cup of Aztec hot chocolate at Thomas Haas. A warm chocolate mochi bun fresh out of…
Fondant au Chocolat
When the temperature dips and the rain starts to fall, there’s nothing I want more than chocolate – rich, bitter, dark chocolate: sipping chocolate at Thierry, cognac truffles at Thomas Haas, or brownies at Chocolate Arts, but what I’m really craving today is a fondant au chocolat from French Made Baking in Vancouver. It’s essentially…
I’m Heading Home
Well, just for Thanksgiving, but I’ll take 72 hours with my little bug over none at all. I just miss her so much, and whenever my mom sends me pictures of Stella, I want to cry because I’m simultaneously so happy and so sad. I love that when I get home fall will be in…
How is it Already Sunday?
It’s Sunday night here on the east coast and I’m sitting in bed wondering where the weekend went. I wish I could say that the weekend was taken up by some weekend trip or, at the very least, productively spent at the library powering through contracts. My weekend saw neither. Apart from a great night…
Pup & Grub 