Food Notes for April 15, 2024

Openings

• Lobster Mobsters, a seafood purveyor, has opened their Edmonton location at 17011 100 Avenue. The business also has locations in Nisku and Brooks.
• Yemeni café Mokha Coffee House is now open in Griesbach at 5344 Admiral Girouard Street.
• Tupi Bowls opened their new location in Sherwood Park on the weekend, located at the Savona Centre, 200 Festival Lane.
• JMT Korean Cuisine closed their downtown location earlier this month, and are working on opening up their new, larger Whyte Avenue digs soon.

Closures

• Apparently Restaurant Yarrow has abruptly closed, and will allegedly not honour or refund any pre-paid reservations made prior to the announcement.
• After eight years of business, Gravy Burgers and Fries announced their closure last week. Their last day of business was April 13.

Upcoming Events

• Four restaurants, including Highlevel Dinner, Otto, The Common, and Biera are participating in this year’s Taste for Life on April 17, where proceeds support HIV Edmonton.
• I personally think our food truck festival had the better name, but it’s still great to see Ice District round up vendors for their forthcoming Tasty Truck Food Festival, May 25-26, 2024.
• Mark your calendar for Taco Week, running May 31-June 9, 2024. The event will benefit Edmonton’s Food Bank and the Leftovers Foundation.

Local News

• King Noodle House will be temporarily closed while Hoa Sen Dao (aka Linda’s Mom!) recovers from her knee injury.
• Great to see Bloom Cookie Co. expand their menu to include a savoury grilled cheese sandwich!
• Edify checked out Lore Pizza and lunch at Shoyu Sushi.
• Chef Eric Hanson has joined The Marc as their new executive chef.
• Chef Kayla Dhaliwall, who has competed on Top Chef Canada, is the new chef leading Preston’s at the Coast Edmonton Plaza.
• Siu To, the man who brought the green onion cake to Edmonton, has created his own golf club.
• Happy first birthday to Ale Architect!

What I Ate

• I met up with a friend for lunch last week at Dorinku Osaka. It was great to see a busy lunch rush downtown! The cream truffle udon is decadent, and oh so good.

Cream truffle udon from Dorinku Osaka

• Mack and I satisfied our ramen craving with some kits from Kasey Ramen (now renamed Menya Mori). They always hit the spot!

Tonkotsu Shoyu from Kasey Ramen

• We also finally picked up some pizza from Pizza Garage’s downtown location (it was super convenient to get off the train at Central Station on my commute home; I eventually got back on for one stop so I didn’t have to awkwardly carry the boxes to the condo). We tried both a Detroit Style Pizza and their Bar Pie varieties, and really enjoyed both types. The DSP was a bit on the greasy side, but we loved the topping combination on the Nice 2 Meat You.

DSP Nice 2 Meat You and Via 313 Bar Pie