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When I lived in NYC I found the pizza to be really good and very tasty. Once you left the tri-state area the quality of the pizza went down considerably.

We go to this place when we want a pizza and a few pints as there are a few pubs/bars along the road and the cab fare is pretty reasonable to and from S. Granville.

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It's been 70 years now, soldiers returning from WW2 brought the recipes back from Italy and the variations from all around the Med have been blossoming for decades - there are no rules. As I understand it our duty is to enjoy.

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Looks good! Odd that the website mostly has photos of the oven and not the food though.

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The only Flying Wedge pizza I had was a salmon pizza and it was excellent (but pricey). In Montreal I had pizza with fresh oysters on it and I re-created that for art openings a couple of times. Fads come and go. CMT (country music television) has a program called Best in Chow snd that's where the Pizza Wars show is (Pizza Wars Vancouver, Calgary, Regina etc). In Regina the compdtition was between trendy places with trendy pizzas but didn't even hit the high spots.

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The Drive used to be Little Italy, B'way Station sits where the neon of Lusitania Billiards announced it's beginning.:lol:

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That I did not know.

Pizza Wars sounds ok (as far as reality style TV goes).

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As above it didn't hit the high spots, a few lucky businesses got free national publicity but that's the nature of those shows. Diners Drive-ins and Dives on Food Network is misleading the same way in that it doesn't always tell the whole story. Read reviews of some places that look great on the show and they're roundly panned. Just like in fishing there's no substitute for local knowledge. I have friends who know the best 'spoons' in Vancouver but the classics all close down sooner or later. The Cottage on the Drive, the Marine View above the old customs house, Don's Seafood Palace on Granville where you could get a Hangtown Fry for breakfast, and of course The Only. New ones spring up and replace them but some can never be equalled.

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Watched quite a few episodes of Triple D and it soon becomes obvious that everyone has there special sauce or whatever and that they can't all be amazing. Nevertheless quite like the show for some mindless TV fare. Saw the "Vancouver, Canada" episode and the "Toronto, Canada" one too.

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Urbanspoon app gives Peaceful Restaurant 85% but the reviews since DDD aren't kind so notoriety could be a problem. Inflated expectations of customers maybe? I'd try it anyway because I liked what I saw on the show (those beef rolls!). When I want a restaurant review it's Urbanspoon first.

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It's rubbish, you're better off with the Fortune Garden on Granville. They do a bollocks off wonton soup.

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Not sure what the attraction of wontons are, I find them so bland.

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You haven't had good ones then. If you're ever back in Vancouver, I'd suggest this place for wonton. On Lok Restaurant & Won-Tun House 安樂麵家 - East Village - Vancouver | Urbanspoon

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I've had wontons many times, but who knows maybe there is a better one out there. Thanks for the link.

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Today no time to go for lunch but was given a slice of Artixen Pizza, sourdough crust and this one was ham and mushroom. It's a venture by friend Xenophon Gargatziotis and he's a very good cook so 5 *'s!! I don't do facebook and that's what his site is so I have no idea what's on it. A sister of mine took me for lunch in Vancouver's Chinatown once long ago and this is how she taught me to choose a place, we walked around from 11:50 till 12:15 and noted which restaurants had lines of people waiting to get in, then went to the one we liked the look of at 1:00.

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Mmmmm NYC pizza. Joe's pizza is good too. It was in the spider man movie to boot!

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Borscht, it's in my DNA.

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I've just ordered a large lamb donair at Wascana Donair and Shawrma (on my way walking to the pub), my treat after work.

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One of the things I miss about England, well, Cambridge to be precise, was the proper yiros I could buy from a certain takeaway there (Gardenia, I think). Real chunks of lamb done properly authentic with a saliva inducing tenderness :thumbup:

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The donair was invented in Halifax, I'll bet there are some good ones out there.

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God that looks good. We don't really have anything that looks so nice here....I could just eat that right now:(

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I feel compelled to go there again today to show that as a Canadian I am not intimidated, somewhat torn between the beef donair and chicken kebabs though.

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:) nice logic.

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A big fat horking hotdog with lots of fried onions and relish and honey mustard and chips and some Emu 999 Fortified Wine for my cold.

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Spinach, kale, carrot, celery, apple, blueberries and some flax seed, all whizzed in a funky infomercial blender HID got for me. It didn't taste bad at all although probably not as good as the naff off chicken shawarma platter I originally had planned. :(

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Not to sure, but franks pizza in stewiacke do a nice one.
Luckily for me Thursday is days night so no guilt grabbing one after a a few hours of sporting activity:thumbup:

And that would be darts night not days night.

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Giggity.

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Understatement of the year! It sounds like sink cleaner!!

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I think that's kind of the point. But it actually tasted very nice, the more blueberries you put in helps. Hopefully it'll go some way to allay the concerns of my tradiaonal three week Christmas beano. :)

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[QUOTE google that=Oink;11457848]Giggity.[/QUOTE]

Had to google that:o
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Went for the lunch buffet at Tandoori Kebab near work so curry curry nan tandoori. :-)

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Mediterranean chick pea salad and a banana.

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Kimchi noodle bowl with veg and scotch egg.

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I was walking past a café and the smell was jamaican me hungry so I had two spicy beef patties and rice. :thumbup:

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Forced into eating a cheeseburger from DQ today, completely against my will :thumbdown:

Multiple choice question: What's the difference between a DQ cheeseburger and cardboard?

A: I've never eaten cardboard
B: I've never eaten a DQ cheeseburger
C: Nothing
D: Cardboard is tastier

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I was in crawling along in traffic yesterday and I went past a DQ. I noticed they actually had the word "restaurant" on it. I thought that was a bit of artistic licence. :blink:

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I have no idea how that place is still in business.

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I quite like their mini blizzards , on the odd occasion!

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Rare beef Vietnamese soup from Kingsway.

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After having a couple of Bovrils I thought I could do better so made a delicious chicken consomme; boiled up the wing tips I'd saved and skimmed the fat then loaded in the goodies, simmered it down for a couple of hours and strained.

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Had first ever yesterday. Although I'm pretty sure it wasn't mini. Candy cane, so seasonal, and not bad, if not ideal to eat while driving.