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Monthly Archives: May 2015

Legends Pub, Not so Legendary

Legends Pub & Grill

2433 Fairway Plaza Rd South, Lethbridge, Alberta – Phone: (403) 327-3395 ext 2

There are certain things that I’m a stickler for, and at the top of my list is service. We all provide service on some level, but in the food industry, whether it’s a restaurant, a retail outlet, or a restaurant wholesaler service is everything. Legends scores really low on that front for me.

 

We went for a UFC pay per view. So we were hit with a cover charge on the way in. Now that’s not a problem, we expected that. Surprisingly, the place wasn’t very crowded, plenty of empty tables. Interesting demographic, lots of 20-something guys, which might have been part of the problem. My party had no 20-somethings…

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Frittata Love

Fritatta MuffinsThat’s a Lotta Frittata

Frittata is one of my go to comfort foods. My grandmother always made it,  we had it with supper, as a side dish, and always for breakfast. Sometimes with meat or veggies (usually both). Sometimes with cheese, sometimes without. Always with salsa roja, a Salvadoran tomato based hot sauce.  If there were veggies in the fridge, they went into her Fritatta. Years later, I still love frittata, so on Sunday morning, you can bet the oven’s on and we’re getting ready for frittata time.

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Sparkies Streetside Diner

pork tenderloin naanHitting the street with Sparkies Streetside Diner

Food trucks are not a new phenomenon. They’ve been gracing the streets of large cities across North America for a long time, bringing restaurant quality food to the masses, at crazy hours, in unexpected places.  San Francisco has food truck parks and even food truck agencies that manage everything from licensing to advertising. Here in Lethbridge, our food trucks are still, for the most part, a word of mouth operation. While they are becoming a regular sight around town, they don’t have nearly the following their big city counterparts do.

 

Freddie-Funder-Fries-600x400I finally was able to track down Sparkies Streetside Diner yesterday. I’ve heard so many good things about their food, I was more than ready to give them a try.  We ordered a couple of things, first we ordered the pork tenderloin naan bread wrap. One bite in and I knew why it’s one of their most popular items.  The pork is extremely tender and very well seasoned. Arugula is the perfect spicy compliment to the sweet mango salsa this is served with. The salsa itself is so tasty I could eat it as a salad all on it’s own. The naan bread is lightly seasoned (yummm, garlic),  warmed, and  makes the perfect carrier for all of this deliciousness.

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