Food Notes for July 10, 2023

Openings

• Backstairs Burger has opened their standalone location at 11010 51 Avenue (they were previously located at the 5th Street Food Hall downtown).
• Indian street food restaurant Chatkhara by Krishna is now open at 10149 109 Street. They are currently offering 10% off all pick-up and dine-in orders.
• Fans of the fried chicken at the shuttered Ralph’s Handi Mart will be happy to know that the same family is opening up Ralph’s Fried Chicken soon at 10807 Castle Downs Road.

Closures

• Corso 32 had been closed since the summer of 2020 after flood damage. Instead of re-opening, the space will instead accommodate an expansion of Bar Bricco. The space will re-open in mid-August.

Local News

• EPIC (formerly 5th Street Food Hall) is hosting a grand opening to showcase their Chef in Residence concept on July 14.
• Edify’s current issue presents the Fav Eats of a number of prominent Edmontonians. Their choices include BaoBao, Dogpatch, Sauce, Spotlight Cabaret, and Bodega. Rigoletto’s was additionally highlighted as a favourite.
• Also from Edify, they paid a visit to White Rabbit Ice Cream’s new storefront.
• The Heritage Festival announced that the Russian pavilion will not be present at the event this year due to safety concerns.

Beyond Edmonton

• Calgary is getting a location of Chipotle later this year, and Edmonton will follow suit…”in the coming years”.

What I Ate

• My friend and I managed to align our dinner date with the re-opening of King Noodle House after their brief vacation. It was a hot day, but that’s never a deterrent to satisfying a Bun Bo Hue craving!

Bun Bo Hue from King Noodle House

• We hit up Carne Asada, a new taco joint that opened up Downtown two weeks ago, for take-out on the weekend. The service was great (they were very helpful in packing our food in our reusable container), and the steak tacos and choriqueso were our favourite. We will be back!

Assortment of tacos from Carne Asada

• My family is a big fan of Little Bear Gelato, but over the weekend was the first time we tried their ice cream sandwiches. The Dunkaroo sandwich was great, made up of soft cookies with vanilla ice cream.

Dunkaroo sandwich from Little Bear Gelato