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Toys R Us on Calg Tr on Dec 1 at 8pm for Santa’s Anon

For a couple of years now, I meet up with some friends at the Toys R Us on Calgary Tr and we buy gifts for Santa’s Anonymous. In fact, it’s more like wandering around the store and us playing with everything (read: me trying not to buy Lego for myself) before picking out the toys but you get the idea. Feel free to meet me there this Wednesday around 8pm.

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Lunch in the City – V Sandwiches

In a word: yum. I found a new-to-me Vietnamese sub place on Rice Howard, next to It’s All Greek To Me about a month ago and I’ve been going about twice a week since then. For six or seven dollars, you get a 9″ sub on a baguette loaded with sweet onions, carrots, cucumber, cilantro, a couple of sauces and meat. It’s delicious, especially the bbq pork one. The satay ones are a bit sweeter if you are looking for something along those lines. The menu is more more varied that the 3 I’ve tried thus far and I’m excited to try some of the other choices. So far I can’t figure out the best time to go. Some days I go and I’ve the 8th person in line. Other times, I’m 3rd. Unless you only have 5 minutes, it’s worth the potential wait.

Lunch in the City – Cafe de Gama

Cafe de Gama is a Portuguese cafe, right next to Soul Soup, on Rice Howard Way.

I was heading to Telus for Mt Fuji because I was feeling lazy and am disliking Subway as of late, which would be my other go-to, close-to-work, lazy place to eat. Then I remembered that there’s a cafe next to Soul Soup that I hadn’t been to yet. I am incredibly glad that I did. Holy hell was it tasty. $8 got me a big panini with pastrami, spinach, cream cheese and pickles. I’m contentedly stuffed and ready for my nap. I’m happy I’ve found a good sandwich-esque place to replace the one that has been turned into Fat Burger (FatBurger? Fat-Burger?) in City Centre East. Canadian Soup and Sandwich, I still miss you, in all your delicious and fairly-priced glory.

As an aside, I’m still amazed that Fat Burger is called Fat Burger.

Lunch in the City – Good Earth Cafe

The new Elm Cafe or on the twitters @elmcafe is too far away for lunch. I meant to get up early and stop there before work but unsurprisingly that didn’t work out so well. Instead I decided to try out Good Earth Cafe in City Centre and had their Grilled cheese sandwich with apple and rhubarb. Do not do. I wish I’d hit up Wrapture in the food court for their $10 wrap and smoothie deal. >:(

Nice Things :)

I was taking the bus to work today and there was a guy sprinting down the street, obviously running towards the next stop bus.  Bus driver slowed down and gave two honks to say, “Hey, I can see you.  Wanna hop on?”  So the guy did and was appropriately appreciative.  Now I feel all warm-hearted and Christmasy >: (

Lunch in the City – Sankyu 2 Go

10347 Jasper Ave – in between Kabsa and Axis Cafe

M-F 11am-8pm, Sat 12-5pm

Cost: $10 will get you 2 salmon sushi and an order of salmon maki.  Note that you’ll be wanting a mid to late afternoon snack.

Someone needs to tell me how often a 28-yr old female can safely eat sushi, in particular salmon, on a weekly basis.  I’m pretty sure I’m blowing over the limit on this one as I can’t stop going to Sankyu 2 Go on the southside of Jasper Ave, between 103st and 104st.  Last week was 3 times, 4 times?  I’ve lost count.

Here’s a link to their menu, courtesy of the ever-handy urbanspoon, as their own site is under construction.

Also good to know, they have customer appreciation cards – spend more than $7.50 five times and they’ll give you a $5 gift certificate.  Not much, but since I’m going anyways…

Lunch in the City – Soul Soup

140-10020 101A Avenue NW (Rice Howard Way, across from the former Praha Bistro)
(780) 409-8272

Hours: M-F 11a-5p

Braved the rain today to go to Soul Soup with co-workers.  Soul Soup is run by the guys who do Culina and they strive for fresh, tasty, local ingredients.  They switch up the menu everyday and I was happy to see that their veg option could be celiac-friendly if you were so inclined.

Ate: Split pea and ham soup in the size of medium.

Paid: $7

I am very, very full.  How Nathan conquered a large is beyond me.  We’re attempting to establish #soulsoup but this is still in progress and doesn’t happen everyday.  Also worth while to note that grouping together some friends and getting a bigger size to take back to the office is a much cheaper way to go.

April 5, 2009 – Triage: Dr James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma

I saw this documentary at the Global Visions Film Festival last November.  It follows Dr. Orbinski’s trip back to Somalia, Rwanda and Goma 15 years after he was there with Doctors Without Borders.  This isn’t a happy movie but it’s an eye-opening one.

You can see this movie on Sunday at 2pm at the Stanley A Milner library for a whopping $0.  The NFB Film Club shows a variety of Canadian movies about once a month and you can borrow copies through the EPL.

Also worth checking out: Cinema at the Centre

Mar 11, 2009 – DemoCamp

U of A, ETLC, E1-013
6:30pm-8:30pm

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Mar 10, 2009 – Johnny Feelgood at Brixx