Tag: Poutine
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All About Cheese Curds
If you’re not from the Upper Midwest of the US or Eastern Canada, it’s possible you’ve never heard of “cheese curds.” What are they? In short, bits of fresh, unaged, cheese, snatched from the cheese making at the earliest stage possible. They are eaten fresh, fried, atop the national Canadian snack “poutine,” and in the […]
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Grandmas Saloon and Grill Poutine
My home town, Duluth, Minnesota, is a couple hours from the Canadian border, and heavily dependent upon Canadians for its economy – shopping, medical care, and tourism. In all the decades I lived there, Canadians were welcome, and even when exchange rates weren’t favorable for the neighbors to the north, Duluth merchants happily accepted the […]
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Duluth, MN – Canal Park Brewing Review
A year old, operating kinks worked out, Canal Park Brewing has great beer, updated menu adds spot on poutine. Menu. Canal Park Brewing Review
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Duluth, MN – Pak’s Green Corner (Review)
What do hot dogs, steamed dumplings, curry, poutine, cous cous, burgers, penne with meatballs have in common? Not a thing. But you can enjoy all of these “world foods” and much more at Pak’s Green Corner at 40th and Grand in Duluth. Open only a couple of weeks, for lunch and dinner six days, […]
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Portland, OR – Sunshine Tavern
Had a great time at a private fete at Sunshine Tavern in Portland on Saturday afternoon. I’m sure I will return, it’s a menu made just for me! We were served a wide variety of dishes, and overall my favorite was Sunshine’s take on the national dish of Canada, poutine. Sunshine’s version adds Italian pork […]
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Portland, OR – Deschutes Brew Fest / Food Cart Bonanza
Once a year, the little brewer from Bend who could, closes off the street in front of their Pearl area brewpub, and serves up samples of their beers, along side samples of a dozen or so Portland food carts. I have a little bit of an opinion about microbrews….. being a spoiled American occasional beer […]
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Hood River, OR – Passport Pub & Cafe
Wandering through the Gorge this weekend, on the way to Washington’s wine country, we were hungry a mere hour or so into the drive. So we exited at Hood River to see what was afoot in the way of lunch, and parked on the main drag in front of the Passport Pub and Cafe, with […]
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Portland, OR – Savoy Tavern & Bistro
This happened to be next door to the Scandinavian restaurant I hit the other day, so I thought I’d take Mrs. BDB out on the town and try it out. I had perused the menu the other day while waiting for my lunch partner, and I was really excited that they had one of my […]