Cooking: Char Kway Teow (炒粿條)

Another rice noodle dish that I enjoy is Char Kway Teow. It’s a stir fried rice noodle dish, originating from Singapore and Malaysia, loaded with seafood, and is notoriously unhealthy, but delicious. I’ve sampled the dish numerous times locally, and in Singapore itself, and it’s one of those dishes where every chef seems to place…

Restaurant review: Sprezzatura Restaurant

We recently visisted a new-ish Italian place on Kingsway at 11th Avenue (opened in 2019). This blog entry represents two different visits over several weeks. Sprezzatura’s menu is built around their hearth/oven. Pizzas, panuozzos and roasted offerings are the focus of their menu. We were here for lunch which meant pizza. We arrived early for…

Restaurant review: Capo & The Spritz

Capo and The Spritz opened last year in the Opus Hotel in Yaletown, occupying the space that was previously home to La Pentola. The restaurant is really two different concepts occupying the same space. Capo is the pizzaria, and The Spritz is a cocktail bar. But we were here for the pizza. Capo’s menu is…