food & travel: gluten free vegas
since the main attraction of most of my vacations is the eating… it’s just occurred to me that my new-ish wheat/gluten free diet with paleo tendencies (yes, that’s my most accurate description for it)...
View Articlerestaurants: hussong’s cantina las vegas
i am a fiend for mexican food. and all the awesome mexican and mexican inspired food is one of my favourite parts of traveling to the usa. hussong’s cantina is a place that we stumbled upon a few years...
View Articlerestaurants: mesa grill las vegas
i have long wanted to try one of bobby flay’s restaurants. he’s not my favourite chef… his food looks amazing, but there’s just something about his cocky attitude that kinda rubs me the wrong way… but...
View Articlerestaurants: rm seafood
rick moonen’s rm seafood is a pretty choice little place tucked in to the corner of mandalay bay right by the house of blues. it has an upstairs fine dinning restaurant and a downstairs casual...
View Articlerestaurants: aureole las vegas
there’s a certain good/bad that happens with fine dinning. the good, obviously is the amazing food. the bad, for me, is that its so inappropriate to take photos of your food in a fine dinning...
View Articletravel: countdowns and big ideas
i’m a person that loves my countdowns. i generally know exactly how many days until i have to do anything that i care about. and right now, i have 3 travel countdowns. and this is exciting to me. turks...
View Articlefood: breakfast
i have long complained of a lack of decent breakfast in the suburbs. it seems to me there is only 2 choices. either is greasy and disgusting like IHOP or a greasy spoon… or its a chain restaurant like...
View Articlerestaurants: tap and barrel
last week after a kayaking session, me and the ladies ventured into the new creekside/olympic village restaurant; Tap and Barrel. this place has a lot going for it. the location is pretty choice… the...
View Articlefood & travel: beaches turks & caicos
caribbean food is some of my absolutely favourite on earth. it’s spicy and lively. it’s always prepared with care and love and passion. it makes the most of the local foods and doesn’t waste...
View Articletravel: the delights of waikiki
aloha! once again, i must hang my head in shame and apologize for my absence. i was away for 9 days, but the rest of it has just been real life and a giant black hole of stress sucking my inspiration....
View Articlefabulous las vegas: including bon apetit vegas uncorkd 2013
you might not know if from my lack of posts, but the 2013 vegas crew did indeed survive our adventure. i also answered the question – is 6 nights in vegas too long? with a resounding NO. i was not...
View Articlefood & travel: austin, texas
well… it feels like its been forever since cass & i booked our trip to austin… but finally the countdown is at under 2 months and we’re starting to get VERY excited. my right hand (wo)man found an...
View Articletravel: shamelessly in love with austin.
on my last vacation i discovered something. i discovered that austin, texas is perhaps one of the greatest places i’ve ever visited. and while oodles of people told me “you’ll love austin…”, i was...
View Articletravel – carnival cruise
ah yes… finally… my long long overdue post about my fabulous cruise in the caribbean. so, back in May, myself and 7 of my coworkers had the pleasure of being hosted on the Carnival Breeze for a 6 night...
View Articletravel: shamelessly in love with austin.
on my last vacation i discovered something. i discovered that austin, texas is perhaps one of the greatest places i’ve ever visited. and while oodles of people told me “you’ll love austin…”, i was...
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