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Food Media Omnibus #523: Lost Balls, Dead Birds And Good Eats

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I review Chaise Lounge for the Westender and suffer food and cooking with “all the ambition of a dead bird nailed to the ground.” Ugh. Here’s hoping things improve in the short run…

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The Georgia Straight reviews restaurants trapped in select Lower Mainland golf clubhouses, including Langara, where the atmosphere is apparently “flawless”. Wow. Shank. Good luck finding your ball…

Also in the Straight, Judith Lane goes in search of hidden and otherwise unlikely patios (a good story idea). Even though Mis Trucos isn’t open yet, there were some very good options set forward (Cassis is bang on). I only wish it was much longer, as I could use the direction. To the mix I’d add Flying Tiger and – if we’re just talking drinks – The New Bohemian. Also, not many folks know about the upper deck at the Beach House (pictured in the carousel).

Anya Levykh purrs over Coal Harbour’s undersung Irashai Grill.

Alexandra Gill digs The Diamond in the Globe & Mail. Honestly, what’s not to dig? This is one of the coolest, most affordable, and best articulated rooms to open so far this year…

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In the North Shore News, Deana Lancaster trips across the border to Seattle.

The Vancouver Courier wades into the HST mess, concentrating on how it might impact servers.

In the Vancouver Sun, Joanne Sasvari is charmed by North Vancouver’s new Salt conceptual copycat, Lolo. It sounds great, but I’m not sure it’s accurate to call Lower Lonsdale trendy. If you spend much time there you’ll notice it’s sort of like calling the downtown east side clean. Also, though it has nothing to do with food, be sure to read this probing Sun story on why journalism is dying a slow, painful, and well deserved death.

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There are 4 comments

  2. Thanks Erik. IMHO, if a feature on how teen girls can papa-ambush stars of a vapid television show is to be considered journalism these days, then the medium is already half-dead, no?

  3. I understand your point, but I would criticize the outlet or the article itself, not the profession.

    I see a lot of this — people in online journalism clinging to an us-vs.-them mentality with regard to the media. They don’t seem to realize that if they’re publishing, online or otherwise, they ARE in the media. If they’re doing journalism, online or otherwise, they ARE journalists.

    So by all means, criticize the Sun’s approach — just don’t say journalism deserves to die, because then you’re essentially talking about yourself and a lot of other people whose work you might admire. That’s all.

  4. I thought given the context and the obvious hyperbole that most folks would read it plainly as a joke. Of course journalism doesn’t “deserve to die”.

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