Venues

Polynesian

Honi Honi Tiki Lounge

It was an odd combination of actual banana flavour and childhood behavioural trauma, but there was something oddly satisfying about a cocktail managing to pull off both.

Canadian / Contemporary

Alchemy Bar

Alchemy, located on the fifth floor of the JW Marriott in Edmonton's ICE District, certainly looks the part.

Q Cigar Room

You know that slightly scolding, disappointed tone mothers have perfected? The one that can make a fully grown adult feel like they're about to be grounded?

Contemporary Canadian

JOEY South Common

I'm hoping some of that anti-aging magic is transferable, because the way I'm planning to abuse my body tonight, I'll need professional-grade intervention to look my age tomorrow.

Vietnamese

Chopstix Pho & Grill

Taysha mentioned that Chopstix was moving out of the Legion and into its own standalone building. That was all the convincing I needed.

Canadian / Contemporary

Living Sky Café

Going from a communal stove for an entire floor to having your own stove in your dorm must feel pretty fucking liberating.

Canadian / Contemporary

Flint Saloon

Creamy, warm, spiced, indulgent, and somehow still a cocktail rather than straight-up dessert soup.

Cocktail Bar

Parlor

...the ingredients looked genuinely interesting. Reposado tequila, Amaro Lucano, Amaro Averna, Cocchi Americano, Coke oleo and tobacco bitters.

Contemporary Canadian

Bokeh on the Plaza

They also tote a charcuterie-style snack menu, which sounded like exactly the kind of thing we wanted to add to the night.

Canadian/Contemporary

Blackrose Whiskey Club

...we smoked that bitch with applewood and let it sit until the smoke dissipated and science could do the talking.

Asian

Odd Couple Restaurant

Remember getting shit-faced off Combat Juice in early 2011? Leave it to Saskatoon to come up with the bougie version.

Mexican

Fiesta Tacos & Tequila

Every bite threatened to send something out the back, the front, or somewhere completely unrelated to the plate.

Vietnamese

Pho Hung Vietnamese Restaurant

After an hour and a half of rain and wind, we headed to Pho Hung for supper with the primary objective of getting warm. I had been wanting to try this place for some time and had heard plenty of good things

Pub Fare

Loon Lake Golf Course

I ordered the Hot Hamburger: two homemade hamburger patties, Texas toast, sautéed mushrooms and onions, fries, coleslaw, and gravy.

Contempory Canadian

The Proper Eats & Drinks

What was the point? We went back and forth on it for a while, doing what we had done all evening. Two people sitting across from each other, throwing ideas around and trying to make sense of something that probably wasn't designed to make much sense in the first place.

Café

Jack's Place

The problem is that somewhere along the way, coffee became less about coffee and more about building a customizable financial instrument with fourteen fucking modifiers.

Café

Kaffa Roaster & Studio

Once you're inside, the atmosphere changes completely.

Brewery

Campio Brewing Co

What started as an unplanned detour ended up being a genuinely pleasant way to finish the evening.

Cocktail Bar

Baijiu

One sip. "Oh… shit." That's all I had.

Asian

Fu's Repair Shop

The batter was drizzled, not waterboarded. It added just enough crunch without stealing the show.

Brewery

Bent Stick Brewing Co

Bent Stick has a healthy lineup on tap, so unless you're the type of person who walks into a brewery asking if they have Bud Light, you'll probably find something that fits your palate.

Brewery

Odd Company Brewing Ritchie

It immediately entered the conversation for the Dining Unhinged Liquid Courage Laureate.

Brewery

4th Meridian Brewing Co

I'm not sitting here with you fucking lizards unless I have a drink.

Greek

Spiro's

They're still giving Lloydminster new reasons to walk through the door.

Authentic Mexican

Morales Cocina x Cantina

"If Jesus and Fergie had a baby. Mothers would sacrifice their children for this. I'm contemplating hooking for tacos."

East Coast Pub

Blowers & Grafton

An authentic Halifax donair, two raspberry mojitos, complimentary Irish cheesecake, and a birthday serenade that should probably have qualified as public humiliation.

Spanish Tapas

Bodega Ellerslie

This was a birthday dinner, so naturally the plan was to celebrate with a couple of drinks and maybe a few appetizers.

Brunch

Pip

I went into Pip looking for a calm reset after a first date that very clearly did not believe in pacing.