Cooking: Vietnamese Meatballs

During a lazy weeknight, I was too tired and lazy to make dinner, I stopped in at a vietnamese sandwich shop and grabbed a meatball banh mi to go. It was the first one I’d had in a years, and I really enjoyed it. But this lead me to think that I should try and…

Restaurant review: Lunch Lady

On an midweek August day, we decided to visit the recently opened “Lunch Lady” on Commercial Drive. The name of the restaurant came from the nickname that celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain gave to the proprietor of one of his favorite street food vendors in Ho Chi Minh City.  Local chef Michael Tran visited the now…

Restaurant review: Portobello in the Fairmont Château Whistler

For a sunny June weekend, we took a day trip to Whistler BC. This was my first visit since before the 2010 Winter Olympics.  A great deal has changed since then, I found much of the village unrecognizable. We decided to grab lunch at Portobello, located at the Fairmont hotel, in the upper village. During the…