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On All The Awesome Things We Saw, Ate Or Did In February 2011

  • Gastown Black Poppins
  • Interior, Gene Coffee
  • Chinese New Year in Chinatown
  • The lost ladies of last call, Saturday night in Gastown, desperate for a Skytrain in the rain
  • Artists gonna art
  • The Mayor Of Awesomeness of Foursquare
  • Eastside steamy window of crustacean love
  • Shelter and haircuts...
  • Crepes kneaded at the Winter Farmers Market
  • Judges eye view of hot tom consomme with quail's egg french toast, ballontine and citrus glazed breast of unctiousness at the Canadian Culinary Championships,  courtesy of C Restaurant's Robert Clark
  • Invasion of the Imperial Rooster Walkers
  • The Toronto station gets plating at the Grand Finale of the Canadian Culinary Championships
  • House lanterns in the wind somewhere in Strathcona
  • Crepe love at the Winter Farmer's Market
  • Jamer's tattoo art
  • A family of chucks stays together
  • Boats too cold to ride in
  • Marche St. George
  • Tattoo artist James Lindsay at Anti Social
  • A glass of Giovanni Giardino at Campagnolo
  • Marbles
  • Main and Hastings
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  • Granville Island entertainments
  • The beginnings of something good...
  • Dumpster
  • Granville Island Market
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  • "Do it Lou!!!" Lou Barlow plays an acoustic solo set at Zulu Records
  • Mastery
  • Spock
  • Gastown on a Friday night 2
  • Martin Juneau over the shoulders of SASK judge C.J. Katz and my fellow B.C. judge Sid Cross | Montreal
  • Gastown on a Friday night
  • Canadian Culinary Champions L to R: Jeremy Charles of Raymond's in St. John's (silver); Martin Juneau of Newtown in Montreal (gold); Robert Clark of Vancouver's own "C" (bronze)
  • Chefs confer at Hapa Umi
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  • 2 for 1 dancers
  • Last call in Gastown
  • Smoke break
  • Chinese New Years
  • Smokes...let's go...
  • Anti Social
  • Head
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  • "WTF!"
  • Quebec piglet's belly galzed with beet juice, dill and cider | Martin Juneau | Montreal
  • Squash soup with enoki mush capp
  • With James Chatto eyeing local press coverage on the morning of the first CCC competition's start...
  • Macleods
  • Tea @ ChalkXChange
  • Icewine cured and smoked salmon with icewine beets, beet sorbet and pot croq | Frank Dodd | Toronto
  • My bath at Sparkling Hill, overlooking the lake
  • Valentines Day
  • Chinese New Years
  • The Canadian Culinary Championship judges, L - R, Karl Well of St. John's; Andrew Morrison of Vancouver; James Chatto of Toronto; C.J. Katz of Saskatoon; Anne Desbrisay of Ottawa; Robert Beauchemin of Montreal; Clayton Folkers of Edmonton; Sasha Chapman o
  • Chinese New Year Parade
  • Shrapnel
  • Robert Clark of Vancouver presents his final dish to the judges...
  • For sale
  • Rabbit and apricot terrine with Neil Sproule's cherries at Sparkling Hill
  • Antisocial - Jamer's opening
  • Chef Ross Derrick of Sparkling Hill
  • Zulu instore with Lou Barlow
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  • Valentines Day
  • Gastown Monkey
  • Exterior, Triangle Building
  • DTES Waterfront
  • clocks
  • Chefs Lee Humphries and Robert Clark eyeball the Black Box competition's ingredients, which were golden and candy cane beets, Dungeness crab, smoked wild boar flank and licorice root
  • Robert Clark's bison tart tar with its wine-loving sauce of cranberry, cinnamon, star anise and liquorice (take a bow, Kim Cyr!).
  • Gastown
  • February 2011 Scout Magazine 215
  • Team Ottawa has a laugh as they await the onslaught of guests at the El Dorado for the wine pairing competition
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  • Jeremy Charles' short rib with chopped/spiced rapini on polenta under potato rav and tom concassé
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  • High drama and plating at the Black Box...
  • Chinese New Year parade 2011
  • Torching El Dorado
  • seawall 2
  • The competing chefs...
  • Boneta's Mark Brand and Jason Leizert at Sharks + Hammers
  • Seawall
  • Alex Morrison @ Catriona Jeffries
  • Antisocial 2
  • A view from Sparkling Hill
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  • Fraser Valley goose with oyster mush and vanilla citrus endive at Sparkling Hills
  • Frank Dodd | Toronto
  • A desk apart...
  • Stanley Park Nature House
  • Chinese New Year - Year of the Rabbit
  • Red Dragon February 2011 Scout Magazine 098
  • The judges listen intently as a dish is presented
  • shoes @ Catriona Jeffries
  • Chef Martin Juneau of Newtown in Montreal introduces himself
  • Pacific Spirit Park
  • Crab Park Carving
  • Crab PArk Waterfront
  • Chinese New Years
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  • Gastown all a-glitter after the rain
  • Justin at Hapa Umi