Nine Italian sandwiches face off, shake my concept of the genre.
Chris Onstad
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Through the Eye of the Vegan Needle
How Does The Sudra’s Indian Fare Measure Up?
The Sudra’s vegan Indian sends me on a health kick.
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Polished and Precocious
Is Ataula an Institution in the Making?
Ataula’s Jose Chesa plays like he sees the whole board.
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VICE Reviews Taco Bell’s Stuft Nacho
It’s what we aspire to do, in my chosen genre. We hope to have the skill to draw you down into the moment of revelation and make an episode of it, like they do in the 24 television show. We hope to take the reader down with us, like a drowner or a quicksand sibilant. […]
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Master the Rules, Then Break Them Well
The Sugar Cube: Destination Bakery on Alberta
The Sugar Cube is a destination bakery on NE Alberta.
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The Burrito Box Has Landed!
Note the glowing afterburner effects that suggest the ability to space-travel. The Burrito Box: World’s First Automated Burrito Kiosk? I did a little looking around before accepting that Burrito Box – an automated burrito kiosk – might be real. It wasn’t April 1st, the company has a fairly detailed LinkedIn profile (you know how hard […]
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Reality Check 2013
Where I Spend My Own Money
Where I go when I eat out with my own money.
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Piattino: Food for the Uninspired
Photo: Kevin Willrick EARLY IN OUR RELATIONSHIP my girlfriend and I went on a travel-writing trip together. I took pictures of her all along the way; across tables in restaurants we couldn’t otherwise afford, alongside medieval casements, that sort of thing. She was delighted by the photos, despite my lack of skill with the camera. […]
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Carts at the Crossroads of Ugly and Wet
The 1500 block of NE Alberta is just plain ugly. Defiantly so, in the face of the gussification rising up all around. It will all be Little Big Burgers and twee galleries soon, but for now it’s a hodge-podge of salvage mechanics, toppling houses, and BMX kids who seem to have been saving up spit […]
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Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Piattino: Food for the Uninspired
Piattino serves uninspired, color-by-numbers food.
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DIY Hard Cider
The King of Home Hooches
Making DIY hard cider… not as difficult as you think!
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Sok Sab Bai: Cambodian Goes B&M
Do the Clothes Make the Man?
Did the beloved Sok Sab Bai overdress for brick and mortar?