Fine Dining

Seafeast For Two

We’re in Seattle today so we decided to head down to the Crab Pot to try their world famous Seafeast. The seafeast takes a variety of fresh seafood, steamed with spices then pour it out on the table on butcher paper, give you a mallet, bib and let you go at it. The Crab Pot isn’t exactly what you would […]

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Fine Dining

The Million Dollar Kitchen

There are many things one can spend a million dollars on. A kitchen isn’t the first thing to come to mind. However, for Rob Feenie, owner and executive chef of Lumiere, spending $1.2 million on a new kitchen for his flagship restaurant was a no brainer. What kind of kitchen do you get for a million smackers? One with a […]

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Cars

I Have Music Again

For almost two weeks I’ve been driving around without music in my car because of a bad circuit breaker. Why didn’t I just replace the breaker? I would if the audio store had one in stock, but they didn’t. And even now they still don’t. Finally frustrated with the lack of progress at getting me a new breaker I decided […]

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Ramblings

A Rose By Any Other Name

Today I presented Sarah with one red rose; one for her uniqueness, red for her radiant, a rose for her beauty. She was really happy to receive it, and I must admit that her reaction was a very pleasant surprise to me. Judging by the giggling smile on her face, you would think she won the lottery. Then again, this […]

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The Net

Interview With The Big Fish

Andrew Johnson has posted an interview with Markus Frind, owner of internet dating site, PlentyOfFish.com. Back in 2003, Markus was making $40 a day from POF. Today he makes $10,000 a day. How does he do it? The interview touches on some of the methods Markus used to drive up to 14 million page views per day to his site. […]

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Ramblings

Crazy Housing Prices

Today I get this envelope at my doorsteps from a realtor of Macdonald Realty. Turns out he listed a property in the complex I’m in. My complex, known as Bridge Garden, was built about a year ago and is made up of 22 town homes. I really didn’t expect any units to go back on the market so soon but […]

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Fine Dining

Foie Gras Is Good Grub

Last night Sarah and I joined Steven and his girlfriend at West Restaurant for Fine Dining Thursday. Thursday is the night I set aside to hit some of the best restaurants that Vancouver has to offer. I use to do this every Thursday but haven’t had much of a chance for fine dinning in the last year. No more! We […]

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