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New-to-me food from this trip to Vancouver:

• Tunisian. Not that it's radically different from Moroccan cuisine, but I'd never actually eaten at a Tunisian restaurant before so I was glad to try it, and would definitely recommend the place to others.
• Tripe, outside the context of Pho. I had a small bowl of it at a dim sum restaurant, and was ( Read more... )

Well, the drive up here was harrowing, but I'm glad we came. The Sea To Sky Highway is probably a spectacular drive during the day, but at night the vast majority is unlit, and a huge tract of it is screwed up right now by a giant project to upgrade it in time for the Olympics. The finished sections are fine even in the dark, and much of the way ( Read more... )

I'm very glad to have been able to make repeat trips to Vancouver, because this one's making me feel a lot better about most of things I complained about last time. I deliberately went to different parts of town, and in both districts where I've spent any time (Main Street between Queen Elizabeth Park and Broadway-dunno what that area's called-and ( Read more... )

We're going back to Vancouver later this week. I'm looking forward to it, but also mindful of the things I didn't like last time. I know that a few of my readers know the place a lot better than I do, so while I'm thinking about this do any of you have recommendations for the following?

• Nice coffee shops or tea houses in which to spend several ( Read more... )

Melinda and I got back from a few days in Vancouver, and I have to say I'm a little underwhelmed. It is in many ways a great city, but it's de rigeur for Seattleites to go there and come back with an enormous complex about how much better everything is there than here, and against that high expectation it was a little disappointing. I came back ( Read more... )