The Bon Vivant Blog

I keep hearing about this place – from friends from the East Coast, from magazine articles, – and I couldn’t believe it, but one actually opened here in Vancouver! We were out with S and F, for a morning hike in Lynn Canyon Park, and F was getting seriously hungry. Serious hunger? Five Guys it [...]

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Do you ever get cravings for Asian food? Especially after eating too much western food? It was about 2:09pm in Boston, when after a weekend of western food, I just had to have some asian food. Being on Boylston street at the time, my options were fairly limited (you’ll know what I mean if you’ve [...]

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“Pizza Corner” at the corner of Blowers and Grafton Streets in Halifax is where you’ll probably (and probably should) end your night to get in the whole Halifax experience. For years and years, this was the place to go to get a slice of pizza or Halifax’s more fabled (and tasty) donair. But in the [...]

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Of course we couldn’t pass up an opportunity to visit this place when we fortuitously walked by on fisherman’s wharf. Excellent burger without filler on a steamed white bun loaded with fresh tomatoes, lettuce and onion (if you want). If you get it animal style realize that it is quite a lot of onions. I [...]

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So this place is probably my favorite fast food restaurant of all time. Yes, it’s a chain; yes, it’s at least partly owned by McDonald’s; but yes, it’s delicious. I’ve just simply never had bad food here. You pick what you want: a burrito, fajita, burrito bol, taco, or salad, then you choose the meat [...]

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