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Is Vancouver’s food cart landscape reaching saturation?
How many food choices is too many? That’s the question being asked by the BC Restaurant & Foodservices Association, who are concerned that the city’s plan to move from the current 100 food carts to...
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VCBW 2012 Beer Festival finale
Vancouver Craft Beer Week 2012 wound up with a massive blowout festival on Friday and Saturday, featuring a huge range of breweries from B.C., the rest of Canada, the U.S. and Europe. It was almost...
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Reflected light from new London skyscraper melts Jaguar
An under-construction 37-storey London building’s reflected light rays have melted panels on a Jaguar XJ beyond repair. Officials are looking into temporarily suspending the use of three parking spots...
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A la Cart: Arturo’s Mexico To Go
Welcome to the first instalment of A la Cart, The Province’s new video series on Vancouver’s vibrant street-food scene. Every Monday we’ll be posting a new video in which I visit a different food...
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Behind the scenes at Mom’s Grilled Cheese Truck
The Province goes behind the scenes at Mom’s Grilled Cheese Truck. Mom’s Grilled Cheese Truck Cuisine: North American (see menu here) Locations: Howe and Robson, Mon-Fri, 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Website:...
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A la Cart: Aussie Pie Guy
Who knew meat pies were so massive Down Under? That’s one thing I learned in the second instalment of A la Cart, The Province’s video series on Vancouver’s vibrant street-food scene. The second thing I...
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A la Cart: Ze Bite
Imparting some je ne sais quoi to Vancouver’s street food scene is Ze Bite, a bright green Gallic truck inside which Mathieu Gicquel draws on his personal Breton influences and the wider flavours of...
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A la Cart: Via Tevere Neapolitan Express
If you can’t stand the heat, you don’t want to be in this mobile kitchen. The fabulous wood-fired oven inside Via Tevere’s food truck reaches temperatures of 900 F (480 C), which helps it turn out...
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A la Cart: Soho Road Naan Kebab
Bringing Indian street food to Vancouver via the U.K.’s renowned curry culture, Soho Road (named after the street in Birmingham, England) serves up naan as it should be: crisp yet fluffy, crunchy yet...
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A la Cart: Fat Duck Mobile Eatery
Sourcing its meat from the Fraser Valley, Fat Duck aims to bring the farm-to-table ethos to Vancouver’s street food scene, with a menu of simple but hearty sandwiches, tacos and rice bowls featuring...
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A la Cart: Mogu Japanese Street Eats
Yuji Aoki is a Japanese-Canadian who decided to blend his two cultures into a delicious whole at his food truck, Mogu Japanese Street Eats. Mogu takes Japanese classics such as pork cutlets and...
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A la Cart: Fresh Local Wild
The name pretty much says it all. Fresh Local Wild lets fresh, local and wild ingredients speak for themselves in deluxe fast food form, from po’boys to poutine and fish ‘n’ chips. It also boasts...
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A la Cart: Yolk’s Breakfast Truck
Pick up a filling breakfast on the way to work or clear the cobwebs with a late brunch courtesy of Yolk’s, where the perfectly poached egg takes pride of place. [CAN’T SEE VIDEO? CLICK HERE FOR YOUTUBE...
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A la Cart: The Reef Runner
The reggae’s playing, the roti is baking — must be time for a Caribbean street food feast. The mobile unit of the popular Reef restaurants on Main and Commercial regularly brings flavours of the West...
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A la Cart: Feastro, The Rolling Bistro
Time for a West Coast feast. Feastro takes fabulous B.C. ingredients from the ocean, land and soil and prepares it in a range of styles that highlights the range of cuisine on offer in Vancouver. It’s...
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A la Cart: Culver City Salads
You know salad makes sense, but it doesn’t always make for the most exciting meal. Culver City Salads blows this view out of the water with diverse, colourful, textured and damn tasty platters of...
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A la Cart: The Kaboom Box
*KABOOM* goes the delicious dynamite. The Kaboom Box delivers a powerful combination of fresh-as-can-be ingredients from B.C., including venison, oysters and smoked salmon, and condiments and sauces...
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A la Cart: Chouchou
Hands up if you knew there was a difference between north Breton and south Breton cuisine. Me neither. It’s just one thing the effervescent Nathalie Galin can inform you about as she expertly crafts...
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A la Cart gearing up for fresh season
Vancouver food trucks, start your engines. We’ve been spinning our wheels over winter, but now A la Cart is again raring to eat up the pavement in search of Vancouver’s finest street food. We cooked up...
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A la Cart: Guanaco
[CAN’T SEE VIDEO? CLICK HERE FOR YOUTUBE VERSION] As the taco is to Mexico, so is the papusa to El Salvador. Guanaco brings these meat, bean and cheese corn-flour tortillas to the streets in Vancouver,...
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A la Cart: Le Tigre
[CAN’T SEE VIDEO? CLICK HERE FOR YOUTUBE VERSION] If your stomach is growling for some inventive modern Asian food, Le Tigre should have it purring again in no time. This truck travels all over Asia in...
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A la Cart: K&J Food Truck
[CAN’T SEE VIDEO? CLICK HERE FOR YOUTUBE VERSION] If you’ve never had your lunch prepared for you by a real-life baron, here’s your chance. And if you like to see your lunch pummeled to within a...
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Brewed Awakening x A la Cart: The brewery/food truck pairing at Brassneck...
CAN’T SEE VIDEO? CLICK HERE FOR YOUTUBE VERSION As keeper of both the Brewed Awakening blog and the A la Cart video blog (or “vlog” if you hate the English language), I’ve tasted many a fine beer at...
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