Mia Stainsby writes on life at home with restaurateur Harry Kambolis (C, Nu, Raincity) and his wife Michelle in the Vancouver Sun.

Alexandra Gill writes up the new Coast positively in the Globe & Mail. Owner Emad Yacoub points out to her that his out-of-the-gate glut of customers are the rounders, that “trendy flock of scenesters who swoop through the hottest new places to see and be seen”. Best quote I’ve since heard in reaction to that line: “everyone else just calls them douchebags”.

I do much of the same in the Westender.

Deana Lancaster reviews North Vancouver’s Lolo in the North Shore News.

Tara Lee takes a twirl inside the new Dirty Apron cooking school for the Georgia Straight:

Also in the Georgia Straight, Carolyn Ali discovers Mexidog.

The folks who owned Budapest, the restaurant on Main that recently became Latitude, resurface in Burnaby with a restaurant called Danube.

Our tears of genuine grief cry for the Saanich Peninsula.

Vancouver magazine does 25 meals under $25 (by The Editors) and Angela Murrills returns to give us seven pretty good picnic ideas with provisions from Lee’s Donuts and La Grotta.

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