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Review: Red Sea Cafe

7 May

At their second meeting, the $20-dine out mini club dined at the Red Sea Cafe. Here’s Aaron’s summary of the evening: A few weeks after our last meeting our group re-grouped for Ethiopian food at Red Sea Cafe, located on East Broadway at Fraser. Nobody in the regular group had tried Ethiopian before and did [...]

Review: Deutsches Haus

6 May

The $20-dine out mini club held their first meeting at  Deutsches Haus. Here’s what mini club leader, Aaron had to say about the experience: Our first group meeting was at Deutsches Haus, a German restaurant in the downstairs of the Vancouver Alpen Club, in East Van. Fortunately all group members were able to attend and [...]

Desserts Tasting: Secret Garden Tea Company

6 Apr

On a Friday evening, several UBC students entered the Secret Garden Tea Company exhausted from a long week of classes and end-of-term assignments. Later, those same students exited with bellies full and smiles on their faces. So, what happened inside?

Review: Breakfast with (Miso) Benny at The Naam

6 Apr

  Technically, the title should be “Brunch with (Miso) Benny at The Naam”. Originally, I only wanted to write articles about restaurants that I have been to with my dine-out group. However, for this particular outing, I am going to make an exception. A couple of months ago, for one of my courses, I had [...]

Review: Practicing my horrible French at Salade De Fruits + Mini Review: Cheesecake Etc.

1 Apr

Mentioned in my previous review, this particular dine-out had a theme where I  taught members the proper rules of dining etiquette. I separated the lesson into two groups so that I could cover two different restaurants on the same day. Like the afternoon group, the dinner group had a fun experience at Salade De Fruits [...]