Calgary Restaurants

It looks to be an unassuming house oddly located on the busy main thoroughfare of Bridgeland. If you look a little closer however, you realize that the little house has a little sign that highlights a single word, Pimento’s. On second look, you realize that the building is not a house at all, but the [...]

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Top Chef Canada is returning for a second season, and has just released the contenders list. Representing Calgary is Xavier Lacaze of Muse. Muse is one of our favorite restaurants, and we encourage you to check them out. If the influx of customers to Charcut has been any indication, you may want to do it prior to Muse blowing up as a result of their Top Chef Status.

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Sometime on January 15th the owners of Charcut will be opening up a secret temporary restaurant in a temporary location. Charpop, is yet another ingenious idea from the folks that brought us the Alley Burger. The idea is to create a restaurant that has limited space, limited seating, and is for a limited time, which [...]

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Well we ran down our list of top restaurants for 2011 last week, this week we are on to our top 5 new restaurants for 2011. While Petite made Gilchrist’s list, we are going to omit them as a new restaurant seeing as the took the top spot for our favorites anyways, and were around [...]

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It is that time of year again where we select our favorite restaurants. For 2011 several of 2010′s top picks made the list again, although in a somewhat different order. While last years list focused on foodie havens, this years list is all about restaurants that simply blew us away. It was the combination of [...]

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What to do on New Years in Calgary? Two great Calgary restaurants are set to ring in the  New Year with 5 course dinners guaranteed to the best meals you will likely have in 2012. Petite’s New Years Eve celebration will have two seatings, the first a four course menu at 5:30 for $80, the [...]

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In January of 2010 Calgary Foodies published its first review ever. It was a simple review of a little Vietnamese restaurant called CoDo. That was the beginning of what has become an amazing and very rewarding journey. Since that day we have: had 51,456 visits to our website from 37,809 unique visitors 111,585 pageviews 1386 [...]

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Calgary Foodies and our favorite fine dining restaurant have come together to offer you something extra special every Sunday night. Starting on Sunday November 27th, the all new Petite and Calgary Foodies will bring you Calgary Foodies Set Menu Sundays, featuring a new 3 course menu every week. The set menu will be designed exclusively [...]

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On Saturday the 19th the Inglewood community association is holding Christmas in Inglewood. There will be a whole host of events including: Ice carving demonstrations Hot chocolate & cookies Christmas tree hunt Hay rides Carolers Santa Shopping deals It appears most of the shops in the area will be open and participating with some killer [...]

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Want some really great pizza at a stupid low price? Try Without Papers after 10pm. Located in Inglewood, this great little pizza joint serves up Neapolitan style pizza that is charred to perfection, and after 10pm it is half price! In our opinion, this is the best deal on gourmet pizza in the city. Even [...]

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Phil & Sebastien have opened up in a new location, inside of Holt Renfrew. That’s right, you can now shop for Calgary’s finest clothing with a piping hot cup of Calgary’s finest coffee in your hand. The combination is a match made in heaven for Holt, making it’s aura just a little bit more alluring. [...]

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In the spring of this year media from across Calgary met at a tiny little restaurant called Taste to sample their new spring menu. It was at this meeting where I first met the owner of Taste and one of the several creative minds who all happened to converge on the food truck idea much [...]

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