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1. Empress Bakery
Does Empress carry the best sour dough rye I have ever had in my life? Yes, yes they do. At a reasonable price to boot. All hail the mighty sour dough skills of the bakers here.
2. New York Bagel Cafe
Edmonton, AB T6E 4B4
(780) 432-2003
Categories:
Breakfast & Brunch,
Bagels
My boyfriend and I decided to try this place after passing it a million times while puttering about in the Strathcona area. When you first come in, you might be a little put off. The place is quite small, meaning you are pretty much guaranteed to…More »
3. Friends & Neighbors Cafe
I had brunch here for the first time yesterday after pondering on going to this place for a long time. The exterior is kind of cluttered and sketchy looking and once you get inside it smells a little unappetizing -- two things that prevented me from…More »
4. Royal Pizza
I'm not a pizza lover, but I love Royal Pizza. I will admit that I personally choose not to eat the pizza itself, but I do enjoy quite a few other things on the menu. I prefer the pasta as well as many side dishes here to the same stuff at many other…More »
5. Steeps the Urban Tea House
What I like about Steeps, other than it being a great place to study or chill in the evening, is that it doesn't sell itself the way other tea/coffee chains do. They provide tea cups if you are dining in; they don't expect you to buy some overpriced…More »
6. Murrieta's Bar and Grill
Oh, Murrieta's. If my boyfriend didn't tell me this place existed, I would have walked by without even noticing it. In fact, I did, hundreds of times, since the first time I ever shopped on Whyte avenue! Something about the plain brown exterior just…More »
7. Cram Dunk
Take it from someone who eats donuts at group meetings every other week (yay grad studies), Cram Dunk is the best you'll find on campus. The donuts are fresher tasting than those from Tim Hortons... even the day after. The prices, especially for…More »
8. Juicy
Mmmm! Juicy is a smoothie / ice cream place located in the Students' Union Building at the University of Alberta. The place has already been described by the previous reviewer here, so I'll just add my two cents.
The reason I like Juicy so much…More »
9. Block 1912
Edmonton, AB T6E 1Z9
(780) 433-6575
Categories:
Bakeries,
Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt,
Coffee & Tea
Block 1912 is yet another coffee shop on Whyte ave. The shop has a large interior and is decorated rather whimsically. I enjoy the atmosphere and the comfy couches. It's fun just to sit in a corner and watch people interact.
I love love love the…More »
10. Opa!
Good for fast food. Not too expensive, good tzatziki, and the staff are friendly. Compared to other Opa! restaurants I've been to, this one tends to sell tastier / fresher food with nothing over- or under-cooked. I don't do the fast food thing very…More »
11. Earl's Restaurants
Earls is one of those restaurants that my boyfriend and I have been to several times, mainly because it's close to campus. A year ago, I would have given them four or even five stars, but lately they've changed their menu and three of the four dishes…More »
12. The Pourhouse Bier Bistro
I was really on the fence over whether to give this place three stars or four... so we'll call it 3.5.
The atmosphere is cozy. It was surprisingly not that noisy, everything (even the floors!) was clean, and the place seemed more along the lines of a…More »
13. Crave Cupcakes
I am writing this review as I'm eating the cupcake. (My boyfriend surprised me at work with them!)
The icing by itself tastes pretty standard for buttercream. It's VERY sweet, a bit too sweet for my tastes, but it doesn't taste like shortening which…More »
14. La Poutine
Poutine from La Poutine tastes good. It's not exceedingly fantastic, but it's good. The cheese curds are actually fairly excellent, and the fries taste good without anything on them. Those two things put it above most fast food poutine-offering…More »
15. Dream Tea House
Dream Tea, as far as bubble tea places go, is pretty standard. They have a good selection of flavors and other tea-related drinks. They offer take out or sit in, but at night it's usually way too busy to get a table. The service is efficient but not…More »
16. Boston Pizza
I still stand by everything I said in my previous review. The staff at this location are amazing. But after going back to eating at the BP's near my house (Mill Woods), and visiting some of the other locations across western Canada, I gotta say, the…More »
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7/5/2011
I frequent this Boston Pizza as it's close to the University, and I gotta say, I'm impressed. I'm a… Read more »
17. Remedy Cafe
Remedy is an OK place, but I don't think I like it as much as most people do.
The place is actually a decent size if you want to sit down and have some food or a drink. It's got two levels, the upper level being all seating, but still it somehow…More »
18. Highlevel Diner
Edmonton, AB T6G 0Z1
(780) 433-0993
Categories:
Breakfast & Brunch,
Canadian (Traditional)
I'm not sure if this place deserves all of the hype it gets.
The first time I went, I was with family, and we decided to try the place out after reading some good reviews. I liked the atmosphere and the staff were friendly, but the problem was the…More »
19. Da Capo Caffe
Eeeek. I don't think I've ever dropped the rating of a place by two stars before, but after my last visit I'm not even sure if I'll be back.
I still think their hot chocolate is good, as well as their tiramisu and gelato. But the last pizza I had here…More »
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7/5/2011
My boyfriend and I go here frequently because it's just so darned good! I've never been to Italy,… Read more »
20. Java Jive
I don't drink coffee very often but I've had lattes and such here a couple times. The drinks taste fine and the price is around average. One complaint is that the Styrofoam cups they put the drinks in have failed on me twice, on one occasion damaging…More »
21. Gama Store
I've been back to Gama Store a few times since my first visit, and my opinion has changed a little bit.
I didn't see any posted hours for food only, but it seemed that I couldn't get those custard filled pastries every time I went. I guess it depends…More »
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8/8/2011
I try not to give five-star reviews to places I've only visited once, but I have to make an… Read more »
22. Marble Slab Creamery
Marble Slab is a neat idea and I do like to get ice cream there once in a while. The ice cream is very tasty, but I have to say it's still a little inside the box. They don't really go to extremes with their flavors... they are all quite mild, like…More »
23. Artisan Resto-Cafe
I've been to Artisan a few times for breakfast. Gotta say, not really diggin' it.
The hash browns here really weren't that good. On the starchy side -- definitely needed to be cooked longer. I also tried a crepe for breakfast that day, which wasn't…More »
24. Tim Hortons
This is a review of the full Tim Hortons (that offers sandwiches / soups / bagels / etc) in the Central Academic Building at the University of Alberta. (There is another Timmies in the building but it just offers donuts and coffee.)
First things…More »
25. O'Byrne's Irish Pub
You know, O'Byrne's used to be good. I went here a few times in the first couple years of my undergraduate degree and I really liked it. The fries were delicious, the wings were cheap & tasty, and I liked the atmosphere.
Unfortunately, over the last…More »
26. Whimsical Cake Studio
Instead of just editing my previous review (I moved this place from three stars to two) I thought I'd explain myself a little more.
I've tried a couple other cupcake places since my review of Whimsical and that has changed my perspective a lot.…More »
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7/6/2011
This review is going to be very similar to the one I did for Fuss Cupcakes.
Preamble (copied from my… Read more »
27. Fuss Cupcakes
I've tried a few of the cupcake places in and around the Whyte avenue area lately, and I haven't been impressed. Fuss was no different.
I will preface this review with the knowledge that I love to bake, and I've made my fair share of cupcakes. I've…More »
28. Flirt Cupcakes
I finally got around to trying the cupcakes at Flirt. I tried both a chocolate and a vanilla cupcake for comparison. I've been pretty severely disappointed by the other cupcake places on/near Whyte and Flirt failed to change that.
In Flirt's favor,…More »
29. Motherly Bakery & Eating Centre
I studied on the weekends a lot during my undergrad degree and inevitably got hungry. Most of the places I frequented were closed on Sunday so I ended up coming here. Now, I realize that the Sunday turnover is less so than weekdays, but if you're…More »
30. Cafe Mosaics
I think I just have the worst luck with this place. The first time I went there, I was with a larger group (6 people.) Everyone else's food turned out fine, but they got half of my order wrong (I didn't bother to correct them and just ate it anyway),…More »
31. Room at the Top
Eeeew yuck yuck yuck!
I inevitably get suckered in to going here a couple times a year (throughout my undergrad and a couple times as a graduate student) so I think I have a fairly decent sample size.
I will agree with other reviewers --…More »
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