Sing Sing Beer Bar - Pho Bo Sing Sing

Sing Sing Beer Bar

We had drove by Sing Sing Beer Bar many times before and had always been intrigued by the neon “WE HAVE BEER” sign, so when PrettySis was in town it was an opportunity to go for a quick lunch before heading for wedding dress shopping. Sing Sing Beer Bar was right on Main Street, and when it’s […]

Trading Post Eatery - Beers

Trading Post Brewing Taphouse & Eatery

AngryRussian and I decided to take a trip down to Fort Langley to check out a wedding venue.  In order to make it more enticing to him to make the trip to Langley, I told him we could go to Trading Post Brewing Taphouse & Eatery afterwards, and that’s exactly where we went! The Eatery is actually […]

Rockefeller Center

Our Bar SixtyFive Experience

This is Part 14 of our New York Food Adventures!  Check out the rest here! Visiting the “Top of the Rock” at Rockefeller Center was of course on our NYC to-do list.  Originally we were going to get one of those CityPass things which would include passes to “Top of the Rock”, which is the […]

Coquitlam Craft Beer Festival 2018

Coquitlam Craft Beer Fest GIVEAWAY!!

Hi all!  I’m very happy to host my first ever Instagram giveaway! Up for grabs is a pair of matinee tickets to the Coquitlam Craft Beer Festival on March 9th!  Matinee is from 12:30pm to 3:00pm. I’ve reviewed the event previously which you can see here (2017 event) and here (2018 event)! All you have to do is head […]

Chelsea Bagel & Cafe - "Everything" bagel with chives cream cheese

Chelsea Bagel & Cafe – New York

This is Part 13 of our New York Food Adventures!  Check out the rest here! One of our New York food goals was to have bagels.  Unfortunately for me, since there was just so much to eat, I was only able to try out one place and that was Chelsea Bagel & Cafe which was around the […]

Toro NYC - Hamburguesas

A Toro NYC Wedding

This is Part 12 of our New York Food Adventures!  Check out the rest here! AngryRussian and I had the pleasure of attending one of his best friend’s New York wedding.  The simple but beautiful wedding and reception was held at the beautiful Toro NYC near Chelsea Market.  The wedding was held in the main dining room […]

The Black Derby - Classic Benedict

The Black Derby – New York

This is Part 11 of our New York Food Adventures!  Check out the rest here! Despite our busy schedule during this New York city trip, I was able to meet up with a high school friend of mine for brunch.  He’s moved to NYC for about 10 years now and so it was up to […]

Photo of uPint by GrowlerWerks

uPint by GrowlerWerks

Recently Wendy was given the opportunity to receive, and review, a new beer-related product, and who better to lend a hand than myself, the beer-loving AngryRussian! The exciting new invention was the uPint insulated steel pint cup by GrowlerWerks ($32CAD). GrowlerWerks is a Portland company that created the uKeg, a portable stainless steel growler that keeps your […]

Cafe Xu Hue - Bun Bo Hue Dac Biet

Cafe Xu Hue

I’ve been on a Bun Bo Hue run lately.  It’s all I will order whenever we go to pho, and that’s at least once a week.  And it all started with a visit to Cafe Xu Hue. Cafe Xu Hue is a small restaurant on Kingsway.  Not exactly hole-in-the-wall, as it’s quite bright and clean […]

Coquitlam Craft Beer Festival 2018

Coquitlam Craft Beer Festival Winter 2018

Hi AngryRussian here!  On the afternoon of Saturday November 3rd, 2 friends and I, Noles and Junk, went up to the Westwood Plateau Golf and Country Club for the bi-annual Coquitlam Craft Beer Festival.  It’s a great no-token beer fest with around 40 beer/cider/food stalls. It was my 3rd time at the event and I’ve noticed that […]