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 […]

Brunetti Pizza - Meatball Pizza

Brunetti Pizza – New York

This is Part 10 of our New York Food Adventures!  Check out the rest here! Our last pizza adventure was at Brunetti Pizza in the West Village (great score of 8.2 on the app). Brunetti is a cool little Neapolitan-style pizza restaurant, with a front and back patio (we sat in the front along the sidewalk), that cooks 20 pizza varieties in their […]

Rose's Pizza - New York

Majestic Pizza & Rose’s Pizza – New York

This is Part 9 of our New York Food Adventures!  Check out the rest here! Wendy: AngryRussian continues his review of New York Pizza! The next two places we tried were of the more traditional “slice” experience whereby the pies are already cooked and served from behind a counter- Majestic Pizza and Calzone, and Rose’s Pizza and […]

Seamore's - Buck-a-Shuck Oysters

Seamore’s – New York

This is Part 8 of our New York Food Adventures!  Check out the rest here! On a walk back from a morning out with the boys, AngryRussian noticed that this place called Seamore’s has buck-a-shuck oyster happy hour, so being the darling that he is, told me about it even though he really dislikes oysters.  and off […]