Dining out in Calgary, Canmore & Banff

DINING OUT IN CALGARY, CANMORE & BANFF

Chef Tomo Mitsuno and team at UBU Lounge

Your Guide to the Great Restaurants, Pubs and Clubs of Calgary, Canmore & Banff Chef’s Spotlight • Favourite Recipes • Nightlife • Entertainment Includes Maps of Calgary, Canmore & Banff www.eatdrinkdance.ca CALGARY

REST A URANT & L OUNGE

Fine dining in downtown Calgary

Three Course Business Lunch $25 • Tuesday – Friday

Five and Seven Course Tasting Menus Available During Every Dinner Service.

403 265 9595 • 107 Eighth Avenue SW www.thebelvedere.ca

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Elk Carpaccio • Soft boiled Quail’s eggs, carrot griddle cakes, gherkins, vin cotto, frilly mustard greens Squid Ink Tortellini with Scallop • Salmon filling and baby squid beurre blanc, saffron veil Aromatic Crusted Venison Tenderloin • Roasted eggplant and petit pois, braised beets, black truffle jus Slow Roasted Quail • Stuffed with apricot and pistachio farcit, sautéed spinach, asparagus in tempura, dill sauce Black Forest Parfait • Crème Chantilly and anglaise

Our experience here may well Our evening’s performance be likened to that of a Broadway was elegant and skillful, with play. This culinary theatre comes artistry evident in every pre- complete with starring roles and sentation. The intricacy of the narrator as we were taken on an dishes allow us space enough unpretentious and elegant eve- to touch on only a few of the ning where we were transported many choices available. First from the city’s hustle and bustle act: Lobster, crepe roll with new to the beautiful tranquil banks season garden vegetables, aged of the Bow river. balsamic, carrot emulsion and petit tropical spinach. Second As in any exquisitely devised act: Braised beef ravoli with and expertly executed play beef cheek, Parmigiano crisp, D2 you will find extreme passion and mushroom veloute. Third and creative artistry. Michele act: Sous vide lamb loin stuffed Aurigemma and Marcello with spinach, roasted lamb top Belvedere are the directors sirloin with carrot bavarois, behind the scenes. honey glazed carrots and carrot veloute. And before the curtain The rich wood, soft amber light- came down we had a perfect ing, brick, white linen and light strawberry gelee with vanilla music are the backdrops when pannacotta, raspberry prosecco our play begins, with the amuse sorbet and almond praline. A bouche setting the stage for an spectacular final act! inspiring evening. This was an unsurpassed With the menu seemingly evolv- evening of sophistication and ing every few days our usher delight. A standing ovation and has become well versed in the encore please! language of culinary arts and recites with finesse in fine detail every ingredient, drizzle, sprig of herb and aromatic flower of only the freshest and in-season ingredients of their creations. Q Haute Cuisine 100 La Caille Place SW Your programme can include à Calgary la carte, a three or four course 403.262.5554 meal, or for the ultimate gastro- www.qhautecuisine.com nomic experience, allow the chef to guide you on an unparalleled Lunch M-F 11:30 am - 2 pm culinary journey through the Cocktails 4 pm - close Chef ’s Tasting Menu. Dinner Daily 5:30 - 10 pm $$$ 3 CALGARY

Located at the top of the Calgary Tower - Ave SW ::: ::: www.sky.ca D3 This fabulous revolving restaurant 191 meters (626ft) presented Arugula salad; naturally aromatic and pep- Menu Sampler above the downtown core and at the top of the pery, the spicy greens are paired with sweet mission Calgary Tower is the perfect place for any occasion or figs, toasted Walnuts and a light lemon vinaigrette. Curried Carrot to just marvel at the beauty of the surrounding city, Craving simple pleasures brought us to the pasta Soup • Coconut with the grand views of the Rocky Mountains in the choice. Light and summery the Garganelli is prepared milk, cilantro distance providing an elevated dining experience. “al dente” with plump prawns, cherry tomatoes, garlic, crème fraîche olive oil and a hint of fresh lemon. garnish It is an excellent setting for first dates, romantic din- Duck • Duck ners, anniversaries, birthdays, or groups of friends. For the patron preferring a lighter dining experience confit stuffed Your ride up is included with the purchase of any the chicken is an excellent selection, brined to draw wontons, ponzu entrée for lunch, dinner or weekend brunch, so there in the flavours, marinated in subtle spices, then pan sauce is no reason not to make this a regular dining desti- seared and served with a marvellous combination Spaghettini • nation. A kids menu is also offered so take the whole of couscous with dried fruit and almonds and an House made family! Okanagan sour cherry gastrique. tomato sauce, Our appetizer selections began on the “cool” side, The meat lover will want to sample the Lamb sir- house made with delicate Beef Carpaccio. Paper thin slices of loin, uniquely rolled to capture the rich flavours, meatballs AAA tenderloin, topped with oven roasted toma- nicely seared on the outside and cooked perfectly on stuffed with cheese toes, Grana Padano cheese, spicy greens in a tangy the inside, served with sautéed savoy cabbage, wild Salmon • Manila Dijon vinaigrette drizzle. We also had an elegantly mushrooms, and finished with a sweet tart molasses clams, potato, pomegranate jus. Sky 360 fennel, smoked 101 - 9th Ave SW The menu is well thought out, the service exemplary paprika clam Calgary and the wine list has selections for all. Everything is broth 403.532.7966 made in house and it is evident GM Kevin Taylor Ribeye • Alberta www.sky360.ca and Executive Chef JP Gerritsen have collaborated to AAA, rustic find a perfect balance of innovative dishes and unsur- mashed potato, Lunch M-Sat 11 am - 2 pm passed quality. seasonal Sun Brunch 10 am - 2 pm vegetables, Dinner 1st Seating 5 pm Last 10 pm Recommended Dessert: The Rocky Road Brownie. lemon thyme $$-$$$ jus 4 CALGARY

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Oven Baked Brie • Oven baked Filone loaf, half wheel pecan and herb crusted brie, Saskatoon berry coulis Candied Salmon Salad • Mixed greens, candied pecans, maple vinaigrette, goat cheese, candied wild Sockeye Salmon, bruschetta Lobster Mac and Cheese • Cavatappi noodles, wild mushroom and Gruyere fondue, butter poached lobster, fried prosciutto Jambalaya • Grilled Cajun chicken, wild rice, fire roasted tomato sauce, Andouille sausage, prawns Cajun BBQ Burger • 1/2 pound Cajun rubbed patty, Chipotle ketchup, garlic aioli, applewood cheddar, frizzled onions, BBQ sauce

This is one of Calgary’s most mouth. The full, rich flavours of popular over 30’s urbanite des- this top quality beef are comple- tinations. An excellent choice mented by truffled mashed for lunch, dinner or a leisurely potatoes, seasonal vegetables afternoon soirèe. On sunny days and a sliced portobello mush- the patio is filled with sun-seek- room that has been marinated ers and people-watchers. in olive oil and Italian spices for three days. Paired with a 2007 With their new look coming Silver Oak from Napa Valley, this fall and their reputation for a rare find, we’re not sure any- detail, they are sure to exceed thing could be better. our expectations. The menu focus is global comfort food There are many savoury choices D4 starting with quality ingredients on the menu, from salads to and using proper technique. sandwiches, pastas to wonderful Having less ingredients and let- seafood dishes, everything made D5 ting them stand on their own is in house; but this evening’s very important and paramount focus was on the grill, therefore to a great-tasting end product, we couldn’t resist the double simplicity often being best, cut pork chop. A thick, locally which they have achieved. sourced chop topped with an apple and blue cheese chutney A great “simple” starter is the accompanied with seasonal Tempura Prawns. Sweet, fresh vegetables and a rarely offered tasting jumbo Black Tiger but perfect addition their house prawns are covered in a light made German brown butter crispy tempura coating served spaetzle. with a sesame seaweed salad and Dashi dipping sauce. Recommended dessert: Warm caramel apple pie topped with Grilling is one of their speci- vanilla bean gelato. alities and their new line “Butcher Metropolitan Grill 8th Ave TD Square Block Reserve” 317 - 8th Ave SW is the top cuts of 403.263.5432 beef only avail- Metropolitan Grill Mt. Royal able in a very few 880 - 16th Ave SW select restaurants. 403.802.2393 Nothing compares Calgary to a steak grilled www.themetropolitangrill.ca just right. The 8oz. Filet Mignon sim- Daily 11 am - Late ply melts in your Brunch S-S 11 am - 2 pm $$-$$$ 5 6 D6 S7 65829 NewCard.indd1 Lunch Time CALGARY 220 42AVE SECALGARY AB403 2879255 modern japanese. modern WWW.ALLOYDINING.COM

120 Jamieson Place, 308 4th Avenue SW, 21/11/11 2:25PM Calgary AB, T2P0H7 Phone 403-264-1133 [email protected] modern japanese + bar CALGARY Welcome! On behalf of myself and the staff at Collage Media know so we can better serve you in the future. HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE we would like to thank you for choosing us as your Please send any comments or suggestions to our • Thered pages cover Calgary, as do the red maps personal tour guides to the restaurants, pubs and e-mail, [email protected]. D, NE, NW, SE & SW; the blue pages & map clubs we offer you in this guide. There should be We have taken great care to try to offer accurate C cover Canmore, and the green pages & map B something here for any day and night of the week, and helpful information, and I trust you will agree. are for Banff. and for any occasion. We have spent many hours Check out the Menu Samplers provided by each • If you know which part of town you are looking in researching, done a little too much time eating, and location to help you decide what you’re in the mood turn to the appropriate map and find a location by gained a few too many pounds determining places for, but be aware all menus are subject to change. number, then look in the guide for the matching we feel are excellent representations of great restau- My fellow reviewers are Fred Holliss, Stephanie number; they start at 1 and go in numerical order, rants, pubs and nightlife for you to enjoy in Calgary, Pyne and Lewis Gelfand. A special thanks to Fred, with a letter to identify the map. Canmore and Banff. We hope you enjoy using this our Production Manager and vegetarian reviewer. • If you see an ad that looks interesting note the guide as much as we have in creating it and we look Without him this guide would not be possible. Fred number to find it on the map. forward to seeing you out there. is an available-for-hire freelance writer, photogra- • Establishments are identified with$ , $$, $$$ & To help you in your quest for a great time we pher and designer (and of course he loves to eat and $$$$ to indicate relative costs of their menus, have Entertainment Listings. If you want to go out drink and is responsible for our vegetarian friendly ranging from under $16 to over $40 per entrée. on the town, you should now be able to find a great selections). • A note about the “Vegetarian Friendly” and venue to suit your fancy. Our Hotel Directory sec- Bon Appetit and have fun! “Celiac Freindly” marks on some pages. While any tion can also assist you in your travels, so we hope fine restaurant, and in fact any restaurant in this you will take us with you and use our guide every Joel Gelfand, President guide, can prepare a meal to your requirements, step of the way. Collage Media Group Inc. we are taking this opportunity to acknowledge If you feel this guide has helped you, please let 1415 - 4th Street SW those restaurants that make an effort to identify the establishments know. That helps them know we Calgary, AB, Canada T2R 0Y2 their vegetarian offerings in their menus. are working hard for them. If you don’t, please let us 403-680-2087

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Page Map # Page Map # CALGARY Page Map # CANMORE Alloy 6 S7 Aroma Café 35 C46 Balô Vietnamese Restaurant 27 D40 Canmore Hotel 36 C49 Beer Revolution 18 D23 Patrinos Steak House & Pub 36 C47 The Belvedere 2 D1 Rose & Crown Pub & Dining Room 36 C48 Black Betty Burger & Winebar 15 D16 Thai It Up 37 C52 Black Cat Bar & Grill 25 D34 The Drake Pub Inn 37 C51 Black Swan Ale House Ltd. 23 S31 The Wood Restaurant & Lounge 37 C50 Brewsters 17 D18, SE19, Zona’s Late Nite Bistro 34 C45 NW20, SE21, SE22 The Bull & Finch Pub Restaurant 25 SW35, SE36 BANFF Caesar’s Steakhouse 10 D11, S12 Balkan The Greek Restaurant 48 B66 Double Eagle Restaurant & Lounge 25 D33 Banff Ave. Brewing Co. 49 B68 Famoso Neapolitan Pizzeria 16 D17 The Beaver 49 B70 Ki Modern Japanese + Bar 6 D6 Brunos Bar & Grill 49 B69 Laurier Lounge 8 D9 Bumper’s The Beef house 42 B57 La Casa d’Italia 9 N10 Chili’s 45 B60 Loco’s Grill & Poco Loco Pizza 26 D38 The Eddie Burger + Bar 46 B61 Los Chilitos Taco & Tequila House 19 D24 Eden 39 B53 Manies Pizzeria & Greek Cuisine 20 D25 The Keg Steakhouse & Bar 41 B55, B56 Metropolitan Grill 5 D4, D5 Masala 48 B67 Oh! Canada Restaurant + Lounge, eh! 26 D39 The Meatball 47 B63 Q Haute Cuisine 3 D2 Melissa’s Restaurant 48 B65 Ranchman’s Cookhouse & Dancehall 24 S32 Primrose 48 B64 Red Carpet Steak House 12 SW14 Rose & Crown Pub & Restaurant 47 B62 Red’s Diner 22 D30 Timbers Food Company 40 B54 Regal Beagle Pub 27 NW42, Tommy’s Neighbourhood Pub 49 B71 NE43, SE44 Tony Roma’s Ribs • Seafood • Steak 43 B58 River Café 8 D8 Wild Bill’s Legendary Saloon 44 B59 Shiraz Persian Cuisine 13 N15 Sky 360 Restaurant & Lounge 4 D3 FEATURES Soho Bar & Grill 26 D37 Chef Spotlight 56 Tony Roma’s Ribs • Seafood • Steaks 21 SE26, S27, Entertainment Listings 58-63 NW28, NE29 Hotel Directory 50-53 UBU Lounge 11 D13 Recipes 54-55 NW19, NE20 Stoney Nakoda Lodge 28, 33 The Unicorn Calgary’s Original Pub 27 D41

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river-cafe.com Prince’s Island Park 403.261.7670

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N10 Nick and Pina, your hosts, are proud of their deal, the smokiness of the pancetta permeates Menu Sampler Italian heritage and want to share their belief the sauce leaving a lingering bouquet on the in serving Italian food the way it was meant palate. Lumache Riviera • to be. Simple dishes made to order with fresh Escargot in spiced quality ingredients served in generous portions Pollo allo Portfoglio essentially means “Chicken garlic butter without being pretentious or ostentatious, and in a wallet.” Butterflied chicken breasts are Scampi Della Casa • we concur! stuffed with provolone cheese, prosciutto and Served in garlic butter sage, folded into itself, pan seared then baked Linguine alle Vongole We had forgotten how satisfying real Italian and finished in a white wine cream sauce. Every • Choose red or white food could be. Where else can you find a restau- bite pure heaven: additional condiments not clam sauce rant still using recipes handed down for genera- required. Vitello Marsala • Veal in a tions? rich Marsala sauce Nick likes to comes out personally to check Bistecca “New York” • For starters we recommend Nick’s signature on his customers and see how his dishes are 10 oz. Premium Alberta dish, the Gamberi vodka prawns. Sautéed large received. His attention to detail shows in every Beef – New York prawns swim in a wine and lemon butter sauce aspect of this wonderful restaurant. Strip loin topped with with toasted garlic bread for dipping so as not Gorgonzola Cognac to miss a drop of this delectable sauce. The desert menu offers a number of fresh in house made treats, we recommend the crème Butter The Polpette di Melanzanne are also wonderful. brûlée or the tiramisu. Served in a small lake of tomato sauce, these lightly breaded eggplant croquettes arrive under Closed the month of July for vacation. La Casa d’Italia a blanket of melted cheese and a basil leaf. This 2820 Centre Street N is a dish you will find nowhere else and by Calgary themselves they make the trip here worthwhile. 403.276.2094 getarian www.lacasaditalia.com Ve Making traditional spaghetti alla carbonara is a Friendly real art, and here we have perfect al dente pasta Lunch Thu-F 11:30 am - 2 pm coated in a rich, thick sauce of pancetta, eggs, Celiac Dinner Tue-Sat 5 pm - close parmiggiano, and dutch cream. This is the real Friendly Closed Sun & Mon $$ 9 CALGARY

Downtown & Willowpark Village www.caesarssteakhouse.com D11 These classic restaurants are pos- baby lobster tails, sautéed in herb- Menu Sampler sibly Canada’s finest steak houses. citrus demi-glace. We have American friends who S12 Escargot • Sautéed in garlic butter with wrangle trips to Calgary just so To follow we couldn’t resist order- walnut and butter filling they can dine here. Caesar’s is ing the Chateubriand for two. Gulf Shrimp • With cocktail sauce world famous for charcoal-broiled In keeping with their timeless Smoked Salmon • With cream cheese and steaks, seafood and ribs. traditions this classic dish is still rye bread beautifully prepared with filet Steak Diane • Flambé sliced filet mignon, Reminiscent of days gone by the mignon, sautéed asparagus, cherry mushroom brandy sauce and vegetables, walls are adorned in fine, dark wal- tomatoes, broccoli, mushrooms prepared tableside nut, the tables are set beautifully and carrots, sliced table side and BBQ’d Baby Pork Back Ribs • House BBQ with linens and fine silverware, the served with a rich, freshly prepared sauce, pineapple fritter, stuffed potato waiters anticipate your every desire Bernaise sauce. Rack of Lamb • Herb roasted New Zealand and seem to know what you want spring lamb, vegetables and stuffed potato even before you do. Caesar’s holds All steaks are cut individually to particularly fond memories for us order, seasoned with their own house spices and flame broiled Caesar’s Steakhouse as we have been dining here for Downtown: as long as we can remember. Over over charcoal for that fabulous flavour. 512 - 4th Avenue SW the years the quality has never 403.264.1222 waned and the meals are fit for an For dessert one can never go emperor. They stand steadfast in wrong with their famous cheese- South: their principals of serving only the cake, made in house and topped 110 Willowpark Village, 10816 Macleod Trail S best available products and feature with strawberry sauce. 403.278.3930 Sterling Silver and AAA Alberta Calgary beef aged a minimum of 28 days Top-notch, top-choice and a top www.caesarssteakhouse.com for enhanced flavour and perfect dining destination. tenderness. M-F 11 am - close The South location is getting a Sat 4:30 - Midnight For our starter the Scampi was facelift! Watch for their grand re- excellent. We had tender Danish Sunday & Stat Holidays closed opening in the Fall of 2012. $$-$$$ 10 CALGARY

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Crispy Yam Roll • Salmon and avocado roll topped with yam tempura, drizzled with spicy mayo Ahi-Tuna Tataki • Fresh red tuna seared rare, spicy ponzu sauce UBU Miso Soup • Home-made traditional style Miso soup with fresh mushrooms and tofu Miso Marinated Sable Fish • Marinated sable fish with honey miso sauce UBU Lamb Chops • Marinated rosemary lamb served with ume shiso paste

UBU is Located in the heart of The dynamite roll makes other downtown in an historic 100 year attempts look almost anemic. old Heritage building that still Giant whole tempura shrimp sit boasts the grand entrance way, atop sections of the delicious sushi and a large open interior infused roll, drizzled with orange and with contemporary design. An wasabi flavoured aioli; this dish eclectic space wrapped in a theat- literally explodes with flavour. rical ambience. They call it Asian Avant Garde, an Asian-inspired On the less traditional side Chef menu where traditional Sushi Nobu’s signature pork rib dish shares the limelight with flavour- is sure to satisfy. Homemade soy infused creations that push and ginger glazed pork ribs are Western cuisine into the realm perfectly prepared as the meat of artistry. And while the fla- falls from the bones into the vours and textures are decidedly sweet sauce enhanced by Jack Japanese, Executive Chef Tomo Daniel’s Tennessee whisky. The D13 Mitsuno allows a little Western spectacularly melded flavours influence to inspire his kitchen left us craving our next meat artistry. He prepares everything dish. The steak and mushroom in house, down to grinding his roll is dished up as a light tem- own wasabi and pickling his own pura mushroom rolled in cream ginger, and avoids items contain- cheese, lightly showered with ing preservatives found in most truffle oil and topped with a gen- packaged foods these days. erous slice of wasabi steak. The truffle flavor is delicate and allows The Lobster corn dogs are a must the wasabi flavor of the steak to try. Arriving on a black slate slab, shine through. large chunks of juicy lobster are enveloped in a light corn dog bat- After dinner, slip into an eclectic ter and served as a tempura style auditory groove, where live per- appetizer, lightly flavored with formances mix musical genres a lime aioli and garnished with into an ever-changing sound sweet cherry tomatoes. experience.

Chef ’s inspiration definitely Don’t forget to try the UBU stands out in the veggie futomaki Asian Bistro next door: modern roll. The dish really pops with the asian tapas, all items under $10. fresh cool flavour of UBU Lounge cucumbers and greens getarian 608 1 Street SW that is the essence Ve Friendly 403.265.6440 of a real veggie dish, Calgary garnished with ginger www.ubulounge.com slices and a tangy mango aioli. Mon-F 11 am - 2 pm, 4:30 pm - Late Sat 6 pm - 2 am $$ 11 CALGARY

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Crab Stuffed Mushrooms • Button mushrooms caps stuffed with crab, crusted with panko bread crumbs then baked in a fresh garlic butter sauce Warm Salmon Salad • Grilled 4 oz. teriyaki salmon over spinach, red onion, diced tomatoes, sliced mushrooms, and roasted almonds with a balsamic vinaigrette Baby Back Ribs • Braised back ribs brushed with BBQ sauce, or Greek style and served with coleslaw STEAK HOUSE Veal Marsalla • Breaded and lightly sautéed Alberta & RED’S LOUNGE veal with a Marsalla white wine and mushroom ragôut Brownie Sundae • Three warm fudge brownies topped with three scoops of vanilla bean ice cream, cream, and warm caramel sauce

Located just off Elbow Drive & enhanced with the seafood Glenmore Trail, this landmark Neptune. This was a perfectly Calgary steakhouse has been in cooked eight ounce filet crowned operation since 1973. This is a with a mixture of king crab meat, classic suburban steak house of jumbo shrimp and scallops ladled many “talents” - an old tradition with hollandaise sauce. Even bet- with a new outlook. They still ter than we remembered, with boast a huge center-mounted larger pieces of seafood. open flamed grill and we were pleasantly surprised to find that Although meat was a prior- since our last visit the only thing ity, we decided to sample the SW14 that has changed is that it has Lobster ravioli and were suitably gotten better. impressed. Large pasta pockets are stuffed with delicate lobster One of our starters was seared and simmered in a fabulously scallops, mouth watering and rich lobster bisque. This one is a served on prosciutto stuffed keeper. risotto croquettes, finished with crème fraîche. The other was the As full as we were we couldn’t bruschetta and goat cheese. This resist trying the desserts. Made is a nice twist on the tradition, to order, the Berries Napoleon warm goat cheese with light and was remarkable. Filo almond fresh balsamic bruschetta, served wafers layered with a triple berry with garlic rubbed crostini. Both compote and vanilla bean mas- starters were exemplary. carpone. Very light and rich, we were tempted to order another. In our opinion you can never get enough great Alberta beef It’s the food you will want to so with the grill tempting us we come here for, and it’s the food couldn’t resist an old favourite that regulars from the upscale at the Red Carpet, the AAA adjoining neighbourhoods return Alberta Beef Filet mignon for.

Red Carpet Steakhouse and Red’s Lounge 6707 Elbow Drive SW (in Mayfair Plaza) Calgary 403.255.1173 www.redcarpetsteakhouse.ca

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N15 Entering this family-owned and operated rots, green peas, chicken and mayonnaise; and a Menu Sampler restaurant makes you feel welcome with their delightful roasted red pepper hummus, unchar- exotic cuisine and comfortable, friendly atmo- acteristically creamy with a nice light tang. Shirazi Salad • Diced sphere. Persian food has been celebrated for its tomatoes, onions, delicious and healthy attributes for thousands of Their tradition of grilling meats with infused cucumbers, and years. Dishes here are carefully prepared based fresh herbs, tangy lemon and healthy olive oil chopped parsley with on traditional Persian recipes and made from and garlic makes for meals that are simple and fresh lime juice and the finest ingredients. Their menu is designed to served right from the grill. Kabobs of delicious olive oil dressing appeal to the meat lover and vegetarian alike. char broiled chicken breast, ground beef, ground Lamb Shanks • Stewed chicken, strips of tenderloin and chunks of ten- lamb shanks, basmati They offer a number of interesting, unique, der marinated veal are all carefully prepared and rice flavoured with specialty appetizers such as Kashk-e-bademjan, blended in-house from the finest ingredients saffron an eggplant sautéed with onion, garlic and mint, and presented on platters with light and fluffy Khoreshteh bademjan drizzled with whey, topped with mint and fried basmati rice flavoured with grilled tomatoes, • (Eggplant stew) onion, and served warm; Dolmeh, grape leaves onions and saffron. Sometimes life just needs a sautéed chunks of served warm and stuffed with rice, chopped little more saffron! beef simmered in fresh onions, dill weed and mint; the Salad-e-Olivieh, a tomato sauce, topped They offer a variety of exotic Persian stews, Persian cold salad made from egg, potatoes, car- with sautéed eggplant some of them available only on certain days of (Wednesday only) the week, so get there while they last! A favou- Spicy Chicken Barg rite was the Pomegranate Walnut Stew. Chicken Kabob • Marinated, breast is simmered for hours in walnut and skewered and Shiraz Persian Cuisine pomegranate paste. Often referred to as “Royal 1120 Centre St NE charbroiled Stew”, the meat was so tender and the sauce so 403.452.4050 Persian Pizza and Wine rich and intensely flavourful we finished our Calgary pairing • Choose from portion and ordered more to go. www.shirazpersiancuisine.ca 6 different pizza shells, For a real treat, try their award winning house any of our meats can Open M-F 11:30 am, S-S Noon made ice creams. The saffron, pistachio and be made into a pizza Close Sun-Thu 10 pm, F-Sat 11 pm rosewater is breathtaking. $-$$ 13

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D16 Move over boys, Black Betty’s come to town! The burgers are enough to satisfy any craving, Menu Sampler Loosen your tie, roll up your sleeves and enjoy and they are not just beef. Elk, tuna, chicken, gourmet comfort food in a swanky atmosphere veggie, and even Kobe beef are available. We Tuna Tartar • Fresh Tombo with an old Hollywood ambience. Decorated chose the Betty, a house blend brisket patty, tuna mixed with shallots, with Toile wallpaper, black crock leather and mozzarella, maple peppered bacon, frizzled avocado, ponzu and soy retro fan lighting, there are two levels where onion, honey truffle Dijon with a smoky, vinaigrette, served with it’s all about burgers, wine and rock and roll. whiskey BBQ sauce. Now that’s a burger! And Wonton crisps for a little Greek holiday try the lamb burger. Spinach Salad • Baby spinach Tapas, salads, gourmet burgers, flatbreads and Herbed cranberry yogurt, herbed ricotta tossed in a berry vinaigrette, even grilled cheese headline the menu. Try the cheese topped with fresh cucumber, butter leaf topped with pickled red adult malts, thick and creamy with a boozy lettuce and vine ripened tomatoes. A touch of onion, candied pecans, twist, one you‘ll crave again and again. cayenne gives the lamb a slight satisfying heat. strawberries, bacon bits and shredded carrots From the tapas selections the Avocado But it doesn’t end there. Taking the restaurant Blue Elk Gourmet Burger • Tempura is an excellent choice. A complete by storm are their gourmet grilled cheese Blue cheese & roasted garlic avocado quartered, coated in tempura batter, sandwiches, so popular they now offer eight pâté, frizzled onion, Bourbon tossed in panko crumbs, deep fried and topped varieties, the Bodega was a favorite. Sweet figs, Black Betty sauce with vine- with Dungeness crab, finished with finely poached apples, melted brie and BBQ pulled ripened tomato & butter leaf diced red onion and sweet Sriracha sauce. pork. The BBQ flavor is evident, while the lettuce apples and sweet figs add a slight crunch. This Burmaza Flatbread • Peanut Black Betty Burger & Winebar is what other grilled cheese sandwiches aspire sauce, topped with chicken, 606-1st Street South West to be when they grow up! mozza, carrots, cilantro, Calgary toasted sesame seeds & They’ve created a cool twist on dishes we’ve 403.265.4230 Sriracha been devouring for decades: prepare to fall in www.blackbettybwb.com Salted Caramel with love all over again. Chocolate Ganache • Rich M-F 11AM to Late Check out the entertainment section of this chocolate ganache in a Sat 6PM to Late magazine for their weekly entertainment walnut graham crust topped Sun & Holidays closed schedule. with sea salted caramel and $$-$$$ candied walnuts 15 CALGARY

D17 The concept is lively and invit- very apparent in the qual- personal pizza with side, but Menu Sampler ing. Choose a seat, leisurely ity. The tomato sauce tastes we chose the regular size serv- peruse the menu and then light and fresh, almost vine- ing. Generous toppings and Prosciutto Wrapped order at the counter when picked, and the dough is intoxicating flavours! Mozzarella Balls • Fresh you are ready, thus relieving hand-stretched Neapolitan- mozzarella wrapped the pressure of “hurry up and style, creating a thin, light and Our test of a great pizza is to with prosciutto, baked in order.” Once your initial order chewy crust. order Napoli’s most famous Campania tomato sauce, is in, you have full table service. pizza, the Margherita, but we fresh basil, pecorino We began with the Tapenade were tempted by the Quattro romano, flatbread Famoso’s mission statement is Trio, three very bold and dis- Formaggi: fresh mozzarella, Margherita Pizza • Fresh to offer great quality food and tinct blends. The Bruschetta, smoked mozzarella, gorgon- mozzarella, fresh basil, wine at a reasonable price and large chunks of fresh tomato zola, pecorino romano and pecorino romano, extra they stay true to their word. and whole basil leaves distin- fresh basil. The sauce beauti- virgin olive oil guished this dish but did not fully complimented by the Vesuvio Pizza • Spicy Both the flour and tomatoes diminish the flavour of the exotic cheeses and the fresh- sopressata (salami), are imported straight from roasted Kalamata olive or the ness brought together this dish cracked chili pepper Italy. You may not think this roasted artichoke tapenades, as exceptional. With so many The Sophia Loren • Extra makes a difference, but it is all distinctive and flavourful. other unique combinations on virgin olive oil, garlic, offer we have to return again oregano, roasted Famoso Neapolitan Pizzeria Another house speciality and again. vegetables-red pepper, #105, 2303 4th Street SW we sampled was prosciutto zucchini, mushrooms, 403.455.3839 wrapped mozzarella balls, Save room for dessert! Believe onions-topped with melted these are almost a meal in it or not the Tiramisu is provolone and pesto ricotta McKenzie Towne themselves. Using Italian brought all the way from cheese 5 High Street SE prosciutto and baked in Milan. Mascarpone cream on 587.352.5566 getarian Nutella Pizza • Our authentic Ve Campania tomato sauce, it a sponge cake base drenched pizza crust smothered in Calgary Friendly was hard to save room. with espresso and topped Nutella hazelnut/chocolate www.famoso.ca with waves of mascarpone and spread, folded into a If you’re now almost full, dusted with cocoa. Not to be calzone, cut into strips, & Daily 11 am - 11 pm you can always order the missed. $$ served with whipped cream 16 CALGARY

D18 With 14 locations in Western Canada, The menu seems to have a little of every- Argentina, chimichurri is a very versatile there is sure to be a location close by. thing to suit most tastes, and the portions blend of fresh herbs and spices, which Brewing their own beer since the ‘80s, they are generous. For starters the Bavarian beef complements the steak perfectly. SE19 offer 15 (or occasionally 16, depending on dip sliders are an excellent choice. Super the season) house beers on tap. tender Alberta beef piled high on mini pretzel rolls and topped with caramelized NW20 They are all priced identically, so there is no onions, white cheddar, horseradish aioli Menu Sampler barrier to experimenting with beer types and Hammerhead beer mustard, with a you haven’t tried before. With a preference bold “jus” for dipping. Mango Quesadilla • Mango chipotle SE21 for ales there was plenty of choice, and I spiced chicken, tex mex cheese, enjoyed the Hammerhead Red Ale and From the kettle and greens section we artichoke hearts, spinach and the Bow Valley Brown Ale. With a sweeter enjoyed the Long beach salad. Baby spin- banana peppers. Served with fresh SE22 palate, my dining companion enjoyed this ach, sundried cranberries, walnuts, green guacamole and mango salsa week’s Fruit Hog and the Seasonal Brew, apple slices, avocado, goat cheese and amo- Chicken Wings • Choice of: Buffalo a Double Chocolate Porter. I tried a sip rosa tomatoes tossed with a tangy apple BBQ, Sweet chili, Hot honey garlic, and enjoyed the unexpected bitterness of vinaigrette. Light, flavourful and satisfying, Honey garlic, Bow Valley BBQ, Hot, cacao rather than the sweetness of what we we had ours with grilled shrimp. Salt & pepper usually think of when we think chocolate. The burgers are also an excellent choice, we Buffalo Chicken Wrap • Crispy We found the service to be exemplary all chicken, hot sauce, peppercorn evening, with our server proving to be very enjoyed the Maui. A thick juicy prime rib burger topped with sweet grilled pineapple ranch, mixed cheese, carrot, lettuce knowledgeable about both the food and the and tomato in a salsa tortilla brews. and smokehouse bacon, finished with a burst of spicy teriyaki flavour. Gurvinder’s Butter Chicken • Indian spiced chicken in a creamy tomato Brewsters Of honorable mention is the Chimichurri curry sauce. Served with basmati See above for locations Flat Iron. Tender slices of Sterling Silver rice and grilled naan Calgary Sirloin over seasonal veggies, their sig- Lobster Mac & Cheese • Baked with www.brewsters.ca nature sour cream and chive Yukon gold panko bread crumbs, lobster cheese mashed potatoes, demi glaze and topped sauce, amorosa tomatoes and fresh Hours vary by season/location with chimichurri sauce. Originally from basil, served with house salad and $$ grilled garlic rosemary bread 17 CALGARY

D23 Leading the way in the artisan pizza resemble flatbreads, being very thin, Menu Sampler craze in Calgary may well be this new crispy, and rectangular, very pleasing to concept in pubs, and they list themselves the eye as well as the palate. Served on a BBQ Beer Ribs • Beer & apple as a Craft Beer Pizza Bar. Owned by the two-tier rack and cut into strips rather butter BBQ sauce, green apple, Brewster’s Group, they bring a deep and than wedges, they are interesting blends beer mustard long understanding of the Canadian beer to say the least. When was the last time Cheese Sampler • Cantonnier, market to Calgary. you had figs on your pizza? kingsburg, smoked gouda, extra old white cheddar, assorted While the strategically located wide- Try the Blazing Saddle: slightly tart and accompaniments screen TVs ensure you won’t miss a min- a little spicy, loaded with blackened steak, Chopped Salad • Maple vinaigrette, ute of your favourite sport, what really bacon, banana peppers, crispy onions, mixed greens, green apple, and readily distinguishes this interesting Cajun remoulade, seasoned arugula and bacon, croutons, smoked cheddar drinkery is the Arrivals/Departures type drizzled with a horseradish aioli. The Junior Boy Pizza • Prosciutto, boards announcing the current beers Armin, a vegetarian option, was one of grilled pineapple, roasted available on tap and in a bottle. Listing the best this reviewer has ever had! No jalapeños, smoked cheddar, an arrival date, estimated departure date, traditional unimaginative handful-of- maple syrup, marinara sauce alcoholic percentage and price, they veggies-and-some-pineapple for them! Revolution Ice Cream Sandwich • refresh frequently to reflect current brews With sundried tomatoes, spinach, arti- Chocolate chip cookies, espresso on tap and show a variety of information. choke hearts, carrot, toasted pine nuts, flake gelato, peppermint whipped fontina, mozzarella, roasted tomato and cream We also took the opportunity to sample basil pesto, and a balsamic glaze, there their compact but well thought through is nothing traditional about this! Very, menu. Their Bavarian Pretzels are slath- very distinctive and delightful, it was our ered in butter and served piping hot on Beer Revolution favourite pizza of the night. 1080 8 Street SW an epicurean™ cutting board along with Calgary a mild mustard aioli dipping sauce. They But it’s not just the ingredients that make 403.264.2739 did not disappoint. their pizza so good! It’s the double 00 www.beerrevolution.ca flour, the care, the innovation, the qual- Cooked in a two-level stone oven, their ity and the presentation that fuels the Hours vary seasonally olive-oil baked pizzas more closely revolution! $$ 18 CALGARY

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Caldo Tlalpeno Soup • Chipotle chicken soup with shredded chicken, rice, tomato, carrots, chickpeas, potato, cilantro & avocado Burrito Mexicano • Flour tortilla rolled up with rice, beans your choice of meat, topped with pico de gallo, sour cream, green & red salsa Fish Tacos • Basa fillet, lightly breaded and fried, cut and served on 3 soft corn tortillas with jalapeño- mayo, lettuce, guacamole & fresh salsa Stampede Tacos • marinated beef strips, grilled with mozarella cheese, caramalized onions, mango chipotle & pico de gallo

When you’re looking for a little pico de gallo, Mexican rice, taste of Mexico without all the beans and mild cheese all rolled travel time, this is the place to up in a large flour tortilla and be. The atmosphere is bright sided with fresh guacamole and and cheerful, the walls adorned their house made tortilla chips. with simple Mexican art. A dish we would order again and again. The menu is taqueria style, and heat is the theme. But not The enchiladas are not to be too spicy! Just enough to bring missed. Three corn tortillas out the subtle flavours and the filled with tender white meat chef ’s originality. chicken, topped with cheese and ladled with your choice of a Mexican cuisine is incred- green tomatillo jalapeño sauce, D24 ibly diverse and complex refreshingly light and tangy or which means that the menu the red sauce crafted with gua- at a taqueria can vary widely. jillo and ancho offering a deep With culinary chefs trained in and rich flavor. Mexico City this family-owned business brings a slightly more This is the type of restaurant refined feel to what we here where you can’t help but have a in Canada think of as typical great time. The atmosphere is Mexican food. lively, the portions are generous and the tequilas are aplenty. Spice things up with the Jalapenos Rellenos. This dish On the weekends they now offers a variety of flavours from feature an authentic Mexican peppery and earthy to sweet brunch menu with lots of tra- and nutty. Colorful Jalapenos ditional choices Saturday and are stuffed with black beans Sunday from 10am-3pm. and a creamy combination of goat, feta and cream cheeses topped with a honey chipotle Los Chilitos Taco & Tequila House sauce and crunchy 1309 - 17 Ave SW chopped almonds. getarian Calgary Ve A nice twist on Friendly 403.228.5528 a big favourite is www.loschilitos.ca the shrimp bur- Check out Los Chilitos Taqueria, our fresh location in the rito. Lots of tender Sun-Thu 11 am - 10 pm food court of the new Calgary Farmer’s Market. We offer shrimp sautéed in F-Sat 11 am - close Mexican Breakfast, Enchiladas, Fajitas, Fish Tacos & more! garlic butter and Mexican Brunch Daily 11 am - 3 pm $$ 19 CALGARY

So much more than just fantastic pizzas D25 Situated on trendy 17 Ave, Manies’ When you’re in the mood for Greek we Menu Sampler popularity has not subsided over 25 recommend the calamari, lightly breaded years! They offer an excellent variety of and served with their own house Saganaki Flambé Opa • Melted traditional Greek specialties as well as made Tzatziki sauce. The Mixed Grill kefalotyri cheese flamed with brandy Manies signature pizzas. Always fresh for two is outstanding. Lamb chops, tableside and hot out of the oven with lots of Spanakopita (spinach pie), Dolmadakia Calamari • Classic Greek Island style cheese and plenty of toppings. They (stuffed vine leaves), Keftedes (Greek served with tzatziki, red and green make you want to come back again and meatballs), beef and chicken souvlakis, onions and lemon again. potatoes, rice and salad. Paidakia (Lamb Chops) • Alberta-fresh Don’t forget to try the baked spaghetti, With so many good items to choose Spring lamb chops charbroiled with one of our favourites. This simple, from you can be assured that at Manies lemon and herbs hearty dish is piled high with fresh you don’t leave hungry! The Ultimate Greek Souvlaki • Your pasta, topped with meat sauce and choice of beef, chicken or lamb baked to a finish with lots of ooey, gooey skewers served with rice pilaf, lemon mozzarella. roast potatoes and fresh vegetables Tiger Prawns • Pan fried in lemon garlic sauce Manies Specialty Pizzas • 25 distinctive varieties or create your own Baklava • Phyllo pastry layered with Manies Pizzeria & Greek Cuisine cinnamon laced with sweet syrup 819 - 17th Ave SW Calgary 403.228.9207 www.manies.ca getarian Ve Daily 11 am - Midnight Friendly Delivery F-Sat to 5 am, Sun-Thu to 3 am $$ 20 CALGARY

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Tony’s Asian Salads • Fresh chopped Asian greens tossed in our Pan Asian dressing with diced red peppers, cilantro, fried wonton noodles, sesame seeds and your choice of grilled chicken breast, fried chicken tenders or grilled salmon Prime Rib • Perfectly aged Certified Angus beef, slow roasted and seasoned to perfection (avail. after 4 pm) Grilled Chicken Spinach Stack • Two stacked, grilled chicken breasts straight from the grill covered with a rich blend of four cheeses, artichoke hearts and creamy spinach, served with rice and vegetable. Kickin’ Shrimp • Tempt your taste buds with tender shrimp fried to a crispy golden brown and tossed in a creamy sauce exploding with flavour Star Studded Rib Sampler • A selection of our finest ribs: Original Back Ribs, St. Louis, Riblings and Beef Rib; basted with our TR’s Original sauce

World famous, world class! With locations all over the world, you can’t go wrong with this famous chain. They have four locations in town, so you’ll almost always find one close by.

The service is always great and the setting is casual and comfortable. Prices are reasonable and the menu is extensive, one would be hard pressed not to find something satisfying to order.

For starters the Japanese Gyoza Dumplings are very good. Six soft savoury pillows filled with pork and chicken, gently steamed and SE26 presented over Asian greens with a sesame orange sauce for dipping. The salads are always fresh; tempt your taste buds with the Grilled Chicken and Fire Roasted Vegetables, a colourful mix of grilled S27 chicken, zucchini, yellow squash, red peppers & chives blended with chopped greens.

One of our dinner favourites has always been the Bountiful Beef Ribs NW28 (the dinner size order). Giant, tender, fall-off-the-bone meaty beef ribs basted with TR’s ‘original flavour’ signature sauce with your choice of two sides, we chose the creamy coleslaw and crispy fries. And there are plenty of other sides to choose from. NE29

They also offer a great selection of signature steaks from fresh centre- cut Certified Angus beef, prime rib, chicken and seafood. The kids’ menu has lots of choices for the little ones, and fish lovers have items like mahi mahi or Atlantic salmon to choose from.

At Tony’s we always feel comfortable with the family, a group or just a couple of friends. Tantalizing New Menu Items Tony Roma’s Ribs • Seafood • Steaks 4307 - 130 Avenue SE • 403.244.7427 6712 Macleod Trail S • 403.301.7427 If you haven’t had Tony Roma’s, you 131 Crowfoot Terrace NW • 403.264.7427 haven’t had ribs. 3010 23 Street NE • 403.242.7427 Calgary www.tonyromas.com

Sun-Thu 11 am - 10 pm F-Sat 11 am - 11 pm Be sure to visit our locations in Lethbridge, Banff and Medicine Hat (Hours may vary by location) $$ 21 CALGARY

If you’re in the mood for break- Red’s is also getting quite a rep- fast, Red’s Diner is the place to utation for their Eggs Benedict go! creations, one of their biggest sellers. Located in the trendy and popular 4th Street and 17th Avenue The ranchero egg wrap has SW area, Red’s is a welcome a nice, spicy kick to it, with cornerstone to this bustling chopped jalapeño joining the restaurant district of Calgary. black beans, jack cheese and Already well-supplied with green onion-infused scrambled pubs and high-end restaurants, egg inside a flour tortilla. Served a feisty diner is just what was with a healthy helping of sides, needed. this is a more than satisfying meal. Targeting the breakfast, brunch and lunch crowd, this bright and The buckwheat pancakes are cheerful eatery has eye-catching not your father’s pancakes. A art on the wall (and outside!). rich brown all the way through, They offer all-day breakfast the buckwheat combines with for the discerning in a clean, buttermilk surprisingly well to modern style with great food create a pancake experience you prepared in-house from scratch, most likely won’t have at home. with friendly staff and “bottom- But you’d like to! less” coffee cups. Lunchtime offerings include One of our favourites (on the fresh and innovative salads with traditional side of the scale) is house dressings, baked macaroni the Prairie Breakfast Plate. Two and cheese (which was such a eggs cooked to your liking with generous helping we couldn’t D30 homemade potato cheddar per- finish it), fabulous freshly pre- ogies, Rocky’s Kielbasa and sour pared burgers, an authentic pou- cream, sided with Red’s potatoes tine, and even grilled cheese! and toast. Now that’s a meal!

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Red’s Big Breakfast • 3 eggs your way with a pancake, bacon, and breakfast sausage Pacific Famous Benedict • Poached salmon, red onions and capers served on a toasted English muffin with house-made hollandaise sauce Steak and Eggs • Char-broiled 6 oz AAA steak and 2 eggs served with tomato slices Southwestern Omlette • Three eggs, sausage, red peppers, green onions, jack cheese and salsa Red Quinoa • Served with maple-roasted almonds, pumpkin seeds and milk (Vegan when ordered with soy milk) Short Rib Hash & Eggs • Beef short rib potato hash with onions, peppers and 2 eggs, your way

Red’s Diner 1415 - 4th Street SW egetarian Calgary V Friendly 403.266-3448 www.redsdiner.com Daily 7 am - 4 pm Down Home Comfort Food $-$$ 22 CALGARY

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Yorkshire Minis • 5 mini Yorkshire pudding pastries, stuffed with prime rib and topped with a dollop of horseradish mayo, served Au Jus for dipping Grilled Shrimp Thai Salad • Nested crunchy pasta noodles covering mixed greens, mandarin orange slices and diced tomato, topped with pan fried Tiger prawns, and drizzled with Thai dressing Three Cheese Burger • Sharp Canadian cheddar, mozzarella and Mornay cheese sauce. Green leaf lettuce, sliced tomato, Spanish onion, pickle and mayo, served with your choice of tossed salad, fries, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, Caesar salad or soup of the day Toasted West Coast S.B.L.T. • A west coast twist on the classic B.L.T. - grilled large shrimp, hickory bacon, green leaf lettuce and sliced tomato, toasted ciabatta bun, spread with wasabi mayo

This is one of South Calgary’s Pancakes anyone? You can now most popular pubs and one of the order their fluffy banana and longest-running hotspots since vanilla pancakes with caramelized 1992, with a comfortable outdoor banana slices and whipped maple patio that catches the sun until butter. Any time of the day or 20Anniversaryth sunset. Outdoor heaters extend night. the patio season well into Fall. In keeping with the comfort food They offer a pub atmosphere theme the Jack Daniels Meat loaf S31 with an ever-evolving menu of was next on the list. Made of top great snacks, traditional pub grade beef chuck, bacon wrapped Est. E1s9t9. 21992 fare and world cuisine. They are and flavoured with Jack Daniels Anniversary proud of their huge selection of BBQ sauce and smothered with Anniversary imported and domestic beers and gravy, served with garlic mashed 202t0htEditionh Edition have some of the best pub fare in potatoes and cranberry relish, Calgary. this is a dish not to be missed. FeaturFeaturinging our our famous... famous... $1 Mini$1 Mini Yorkie Yor Mondakie Mondays ys The menu is loaded with what Friday features DJs and dancing, $1 Taco$1 T Tuesdaaco Tuesdays ys they call comfort food, a plethora and Saturday night the Black $.22 $.22 Wing W Wingednesda Wednesdays ys of choices sure to satisfy any time Swan becomes a high-energy $7.50$7 St.50eak St Sandwhicheak Sandwhich Frida Fyridas ys of day. For starters we loved the dance bar. The bar is packed on Yorkshire Minis. Five pastries Wing Wednesday for some of the Cr eativ Creative Menue Menu stuffed with prime rib, topped best wings in town. P atio Patio with horseradish mayo served CasualCasual Atmospher Atmosphere e au jus for dipping, You can’t go With lunch specials every day of Dar Darts, Pts,ool, Pool, Games Games wrong with this choice. And the the week, there’s no reason not to Spor Sports ts Diner-licous burger was very come here in the middle of the W eek Wendeekend D.J’ D.J’s s hearty. Also known as the one day, too. W eek Wendeekend Brunch Brunch eyed cheeseburger. 1/3 pound F un F &un F r &iendl Friendly y topped with an over easy fried egg, grilled ham slices, cheddar 1045510455 SouthportE s Southportt. 1992 Rd Rd SW SW cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo, Along Macleod Trail pickle and Spanish onion. Wow! Black Swan Ale House Ltd. AlongAnniversary Macleod Trail 10455 Southport Road SW 2403-271-87760t403-271-8776h Edition Calgary 403.271.8776 Featuring our famous... $1 Mini Yorkie Mondays Daily 11 am - 2 am $1 Taco Tuesdays $-$$ $.22 Wing Wednesdays $7.50 Steak Sandwhich Fridays 23 Creative Menu Patio Casual Atmosphere Darts, Pool, Games Sports Weekend D.J’s Weekend Brunch Fun & Friendly 10455 Southport Rd SW Along Macleod Trail 403-271-8776 CALGARY

cookhouse dancehall nightclub live music mechanical bull S32 Calgary’s original country bar succulent steaks and fall off the and Calgary’s favourite Stampede bone ribs, with helpings as big as Menu Sampler hotspot, the Ranchman’s has been the Alberta sky. With daily spe- a Calgary landmark for over 40 cials and a classic Western menu, years. They say a visit to Calgary there’s always something yummy Stampede Beef on a Bun • Our famous isn’t complete without a visit to to be had. To start we suggest you brisket marinated for 24 hours, smoked the Ranchmans. try the Dry Garlic Ribs, a pound and tossed in Ranchman’s own BBQ of savoury bone-in pork mini ribs Sauce Today the 1,100 seat dance hall New York Strip Steak • 10oz. AAA+ Alberta tossed in light soya sauce and fin- hosts top country bands and ished with kosher salt. Try their Beef steak performers, with Calgary’s larg- Texas Beef Ribs • Big meaty prime rib beef ribs, four big meaty prime rib est dance floor for kicking up bones, brushed with BBQ sauce bones marinated and smoked before your heels. A “museum of rodeo drenching in Ranchman’s own BBQ sauce and slowly baked, tender and photographs & memorabilia” dis- juicy. This is full service Cowboy Chicken Fried Steak • Hand breaded steak, plays over 90 Trophy saddles of deep fried with creamy bacon gravy and fare with Grade AAA Alberta Canadian and World Champion beef, ribs & chicken. string onions pro rodeo cowboys. It’s where the The Chicken Inn’s Southern Fried Chicken • REAL cowboys hang their hats! And for all your boot-scootin’ Prepared with Mrs. Sneeds special recipe They are also the official hospi- needs there’s live Rockin’ Country and pan fried to perfection tality location of the Canadian entertainment Thursday, Friday Professional Rodeo Association. & Saturday. Take the 8 Second Pool tables and a great western Challenge on their Mechanical Ranchman’s Cookhouse and Dancehall Inc. atmosphere help explain why this Bull! Be a part of the legend and 9615 Macleod Tr S has been a Calgary classic for so taste the Stampede all year long. Calgary long. An experience not to be 403.253.1100 missed! www.ranchmans.com Inviting you to “come for dinner – M-Sat 5 pm - 2 am stay for the night!” they specialize $-$$ in Alberta Deep Pit BBQ Beef, 24 CALGARY Double Eagle

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C45 Just one block off main street you’ll find one For starters we recommend the Baked Mushroom Menu Sampler of Canmore’s most “hip” dining and nightlife Caps. Unlike anything else we have tasted, these destinations. Zona’s giant patio offers majestic are stuffed with roasted eggplant, garlic, parmesan House Smoked Maple mountain views and their interior is made of hand and sherry-soaked sun dried grapes, then baked in Salmon and Artichoke hewn log beams, tile and glass. Unique art pieces a grainy mustard sauce and served piping hot. Cream Cheese Dip • designed by the owner himself contribute to the With Zona’s zesty baked eclectic atmosphere. Although the menu changes regularly with Chef ’s pita chips flair and originality, a steadfast favourite entrée is Chicken-Coconut-Lime- The dishes are inventive yet familiar. Their focus their signature Mo’ Rockin’ Molasses Lamb Curry. Lasagna • Creamy is on originality in flavours and spice, and the Tender chunks of roasted lamb in an aromatic layers of roast chicken, menu seems to be constantly evolving. Chef tomato-based curry and exotic spices with just lime leaf infused Chris uses his considerable talent to continually enough zing and served with apple mint chutney coconut milk sauce, develop new dishes. There doesn’t seem to be a and jasmine rice. This dish has been on the menu ricotta and cottage Canmorite that wouldn’t recommend Zona’s as since day one! cheese, baked with one of the only places in town that always seems a cap of swiss and to have something going on, from hanging out on The ribs are perfect. Fall off the bone, baby back mozzarella cheese the patio to open mic night and their famous Zed pork ribs basted in a slightly spicy black currant- Copper Door Salmon • night. Wild Turkey bourbon glaze, served with jasmine Baked in Canadian Club rice and vegetables. The rice is flavoured with whiskey, organic maple Indian spices for a very distinct and delicious syrup & soy sauce, flavour. No soy sauce needed. topped with tarragon- Zona’s Late Night Bistro chili butter and served 710 - 9th Street (Walk of Champions) Zona‘s is famous for their impromptu parties with jasmine rice and Canmore and live performances, check their website for chef’s veggies 403.609.2000 upcoming events. Asian BBQ Bison Flank www.zonascanmore.com Steak • Alberta prime bison flank steak Lunch 11:30 am - 3:30 pm marinated in sake, soy, Dinner 4:30 - 10 pm ginger and chillies, $$ grilled and thinly sliced 34 CANMORE

Our top quality Mexican ﬁ ne cuisine is what makes us unique. We use only natural and the freshest of ingredients, and all our salsas and menu items selection are artisanal handmade. — Chef José Castillo

“One of the Top Ten restaurants outside of Calgary” — John Gilchrist C46 Menu Sampler There is a lot more to Mexican cuisine than Another example of these exceptional com- just tortillas slathered with hot sauce and binations is the Enmoladas. Chicken breast Charro Negro • Two fried eggs, cheese, and chef José and his wife Laura are rolled in house made corn tortillas dipped crispy corn tortillas, delicate determined to bring some of the delicacies in mole rojo sauce, a mixture of chilies secos crema conde sauce, sour of Mexican high cuisine to Calgarians and and dark chocolate, topped with sesame cream, goat feta, homemade the Bow Valley. Their style is fine traditional seeds, goat feta and raw onions. traditional Oaxaca sauce Mexican, a fusion of Spanish and indige- Tacos de Pescado • Three nous, flavourful, not spicy, and you can order One of the most interesting desserts we have tortillas filled with crusted the heat level you want. Everything is made encountered was the mango mousse. Mango Basa fish, garlic aioli, black fresh in house and they import most of their purée center wrapped in a light merengue is beans and lettuce with ingredients from Mexico right down to their topped with sliced strawberries and a rasp- guacamole and fresh Mexican organic Mexican coffee. berry, mango coulis. The perfect end. salsa If you are looking for spicy we recommend 90% of the menu is gluten free and there are Halibut ala Veracruz • Poached many vegetarian options. Don’t miss their fresh halibut fillet, dipped the Patatas Salvajes, served with a garlic aioli, perfect for sharing. And the Ceviche oh-so-popular breakfast specialties that you in delicious salsa Veracruz would need to travel to Mexico to find. with olives, capers and fresh Mazatlan is made to order with fresh fish, tomato, served with sautéed salsa and fresh squeezed lime, topped with tantalizing house made guacamole. season vegetables, rice and getarian Celiac Ve house made corn tortillas on Friendly Friendly Many of their colourful sauces combine a the side generous assortment of cooked chilis, nuts, seeds and fruits, combined into a purée to Aroma Café be used over chicken meat and fish. One 837 Main Street excellent example is the Cochinita Pibil, Canmore a traditional Mayan recipe. Roasted pork 403.675.9913 tender loin seared to crisp and very tender, www.aromamexicanrestaurant.com ladled with Achiote, a traditional Mayan salsa with a smoky citrus flavour. M-F 10:30 am - 3:30 pm, 5 - 10 pm Weekends 8 am - 3:30 pm, 5 - 10 pm $$ 35 CANMORE

Daily Lunch & Dinner Specials Large tree- shaded outdoor patio on Policeman’s Creek 16 beers on tap Pub & Dining Room “ 30 Years experience of Happy Hour Traditional English fare with 4 - 7 pm C48 new world flair” Pool tables, dart boards, big screen TVs Delicious Sunday Brunch

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B53 In today’s Dining “scene” if you will, there are subtle lighting and the valley beyond, and Menu Sampler few experiences that match this 5-diamond finally to your reserved table. Even in dark- restaurant. Here is an evening of pure plea- ness the view was breathtaking. British Columbia’s ‘Fruits de sure where you are transported to an era of Mer’ • Radishes and Their gracious living and impeccable standards. Once comfortably seated the maître d’ Shoots, Fines Herbes, Fennel, appears to greet you and inquire after any Avocado The mandate of the friendly knowledgeable special dining requirements, as well as to Veal Breast with Squid and staff seems to be to take all the guesswork introduce you to the many staff at your Lardo • Green Apple, Ice Cider out, and pack all the enjoyment and relax- disposal. He then uses his personal wit and Mustard, Pine ation one can get into a single seating. Right charm to transition the evening to dinner, Pura Vida Farm’s Angus Beef from the start they make you feel welcome, leaving you with your sommelier who, armed Trio • Potatoes Baked in Ash, everyone knows your name and is eager to with a rolling trolley, details the current wine Rutabaga, Charred Leek make your stay as comfortable as possible. features. If you would like something particu- Gilthead Sea Bream Grilled lar the vast wine bible is already at the table over Douglas Fir • Foie Gras & You immediately feel special as you enter and for your perusal. Or order the wine pairing: Vanilla Consommé, Vegetables are smoothly escorted past the spectacular carefully chosen to match. à la Grecque, Gnocchi ‘Risotto’ wine cellar (one of two), through the elegant Broek Acres Suckling Pig ’24 dining rooms lined with rich dark woods and From here on in your only requirement is to hours later’ filled with elegant furniture overlooking the choose from the 3-course up to 10-course beautifully lit courtyard with glowing fire and Grande Degustation menu, and to relax and enjoy the pampering. Everything presented is Eden of the highest quality and as pleasing to the The Rimrock Resort Hotel eye as on the palate. When we reluctantly left 300 Mountain Avenue we were presented with a personal note from Banff the staff and a lovely gift to remember our 403.762.1848 experience by. Our taste buds anticipate with www.rimrockresort.com relish our next visit. A night to remember. Reservations required. Closed M-Tue getarian Ve $$$$ Friendly 39 BANFF

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Fried Calamari • In a light beer batter served with salsa Baked Garlic Prawns • Onion, garlic and white wine sauce, served with warm lentil salad and garlic butter Fresh Mussels • In a white wine butter or tomato sauce breakfast • lunch • dinner Seafood Roselline • Salmon, white fish, scallops and shrimp in a creamy, tomato sauce Baked Barramundi Filet in Banana leaves • Spiced Mango with arugula salad

This is a very cozy, home style You must try the Penne restaurant with a great patio and Woodsman Style! Duck confit a diverse menu featuring Italian slow cooked in it’s own jus to and Canadian cuisine. retain it’s moisture, bacon, wild mushrooms, onion and garlic Chef Nigel Walker’s 34 years of bathed in a delicious cream sauce. experience recreates old and new favourites of homemade quality Something we rarely see but dishes sided with an eclectic, very always enjoy is the stuffed chick- reasonably priced wine menu. en breast. Lightly breaded then baked and filled with goat cheese, Choices were difficult as they mushrooms and prosciutto and have a little bit of everything. We finished with a tomato basil began with starters of the baked sauce. Irresistibly creamy this garlic Prawns delicately sautéed dish was exceptional. with onion, garlic and white wine sauce, served with warm lentil Desserts are made in house. Our B54 salad and garlic butter, a perfect server suggested the caramallatto choice; and the crab salad of of the day, and it does change healthy quinoa, peppers, and avo- every day. Ours was a white cado served on a bed of lettuce. chocolate, Italian style crème Both dishes are simple, perfectly brûlée. We rate this unique dish balanced offering the taste of five stars. summer all year round. locally owned & operated With so many wonderful choices deciding on our mains was a difficult task. The Braised veal Osobuco was an all out winner. Slowly braised for hours,perfectly tender, with red wine tomatoes and vegetables, it is accompanied with your choice of potato, brown rice or polenta,we recommend the polenta, baked in-house with Asiago cheese, parmesan, cream and basil. banff’s largest street level patio

Timber’s Food Company 204 Wolf Street Banff 403.762.8987 www.timbersbanff.com

Breakfast 8 am to 11:30 am, weekends 8 am to noon Lunch from 11:30 to 5 pm, weekends 12 noon to 5 pm Dinner from 5 pm to 11 pm $$ 40 BANFF

inner starts at 7 a.m. DWhile most people are still working on their first coffee, we’re checking produce, perfecting our sauces and marinating steaks. As every great chef knows, the perfect steak dinner takes time to get just right.

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B55 Menu Sampler There are two Keg’s in Banff, one You can’t go wrong with the Keg Classic downtown and the other located in the dinners. Ours was the 12 oz. New York Crab, Parmesan & Spinach Dip Caribou Hotel. Both locations offer Classic served with a side salad, veg- B56 • Crab, aged Parmesan and their own unique ambience and share etables and sautéed mushrooms. Tender spinach, with crispy chips a wonderful combination of seating to and juicy, grilled to perfection, nothing Tempura Snap Peas & accommodate any group, size, formal compares to a steak grilled just right. Asparagus • Lightly battered and informal party. Although steak is and served with a soy dipping the theme the menu is large and offers Both locations have popular lounges sauce plenty of choices to suit most any palate. and we love the “Keg size” drinks. When Filet Mignon • Tenderloin you’re craving a great meal in a comfort- wrapped in applewood smoked The crab cakes are a sure bet. Loaded able, casual atmosphere, the Keg is cer- bacon with sweet Jonah and lump Dungeness tainly a place to visit! Zesty Salmon • A grilled fillet crab hand formed with just enough basted with a sweet and mildly breading to keep them together and spicy sauce. Chili mayonnaise served with a dill caper mayo. Creole Chicken • Shrimp and The salads are always fresh and crispy, scallops sautéed in Creole we chose the Keg Caesar. A large bowl The Keg Steakhouse & Bar seasonings and served over of fresh greens topped with house made www.bestofbanff.com grilled chicken croutons and slivers of aged Parmesan tossed with the Keg’s special blend of Downtown Banff creamy Caesar dressing. Add a lemon 117 Banff Ave wedge to bring out the flavor! 403.760.3030 Daily 4 pm - 10 pm Seafood still being on our mind we chose the king crab legs. A full pound of Banff Caribou Lodge steamed Alaskan king served with hot 521 Banff Ave drawn butter and your choice of starch. 403.762.4442 We added on the steamed fresh aspara- Daily 6:30 am - 10:30 pm gus to complement our meal. $$-$$$

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Established in 1975 and locally appetite. This is their largest cut IF YOU HAVEN’T BEEN TO BUMPER’S owned an operated by a few of of prime rib done perfectly and Banff ’s “good ol’ boys,” Bumper’s oh-so-tender. Accompanied au is a western-themed A-frame jus for extra flavour. Cut so tall building typifying a blend of the we couldn’t finish it. old west and mountain chalet. A loft lounge overlooks the dining Another irresistible favourite is THE BEEF HOUSE room and has memorabilia and the “Pile ‘O’ Bones.” Four large signboards from days gone by in prime rib bones baked and served Banff. up with a rich BBQ sauce on the YOU HAVEN’T BEEN TO BANFF side. No doubt about it, this is a They offer Banff ’s only “all you great place for beef lovers! can eat” fully stocked salad bar served with all the entrées, so And don’t worry, they have more good you may be tempted to fill than just beef. For other palates up on it – but save room for the they offer a nice selection of, main courses, dinner is yet to be chicken, fish, and pasta, all served served. with the famous salad bar.

Bumper’s is famous for “Alberta When looking for good value Beef.” The house specialty is combined with great quality prime rib of Alberta beef, served Bumpers holds true to its motto. with all the trimmings. A suc- “If you haven’t been to Bumpers culent cut slow roasted for hours you haven’t been to Banff ”. in Bumper’s special slow cookers A kid’s menu is available. and served the way you like it. We ordered the Mountain man cut. For the beef lover bring your B57 Menu Sampler

Bumper’s Back Ribs & Salad Bar • A rack of baby back ribs with our special honey BBQ sauce and your choice of baked potato, french fries, or rice 14 oz. Ribeye Steak & Salad Bar • For the bigger steak eater, also cut from the prime rib of beef but prepared on the grill as you like it Pile-O-Bones & Salad Bar • Juicy prime rib bones incomparable and limited to only 4 per customer Canadian Mountain Stew & Salad Bar • Beef chunks swimming in rich red wine-based gravy with fresh vegetables, and exotic spices Rocky Mountain Rainbow Trout & Salad Bar • Two 5 oz. rainbow fillets served with a choice of baked potato, rice, or french fries Roast Prime Rib of Beef • Selected and aged 21 to 28 days, Bumper’s Beef is prepared in special temperature-sensitive, slow cooking ovens

Bumper’s The Beef House 603 Banff Avenue Banff 762-2622 403.762.2622 603 BANFF AVENUE Daily 4:30 - 10 pm Lounge 4:30 - Midnight $$ 42 BANFF

Besides our delicious “fall off the bone” ribs our feature menu includes slow roasted juicy Prime Rib, Certified Angus Beef Steaks, succulent Seafood and more 138 Banff Ave • 760-8540 (Mount Royal Hotel) Also visit our locations in Calgary, Lethbridge & Medicine Hat, Alberta B58 Menu Sampler We love to visit this family style restaurant sides, ours was a nicely seasoned rice pilaf where we sit at the window overlooking and the seasonal vegetables. The subtle fla- Fire-Kissed Peach & Southern bustling Banff Ave in the large comfortable vours are tantalizing and the portion large Chicken • Hand-breaded booths and enjoy the view! The friendly enough to satisfy. southern-style chicken strips, efficient staff can accommodate your group sweet grilled peaches, fresh of any size and the extensive menu is loaded The prime rib is also a wonderful choice, we greens, drizzled in balsamic with selections for every palate. ordered the Tony’s cut. A giant slab of ten- fig dressing der juicy slow cooked Certified Angus beef Beef Short Rib • Braised and The steak and mushroom flatbread is a done rare just as we ordered it and served grilled, Cabernet demi-glace, great starter. Thin, crispy flat bread topped with horseradish and a delicious jus for dip- fire roasted vegetables, with grilled beef tenderloin and wild mush- ping, and your choice of sides. Ours were mashed potatoes rooms, red peppers, chives, Havarti cheese, the garlic mashed potatoes and ranch style Filet Medallions • Three filet blue cheese crumble and a creamy horserad- beans. Available only after 4 pm. ish sauce. medallions each topped with For dessert we recommend the Mini one of our three gourmet All of the steaks are fresh centre-cut Dessert selection. Choose from a variety of toppings Certified Angus Beef and the NY Strip or mini desserts and toppings for a delightful South Miami Fried Shrimp • Filet Mignon are excellent choices. experience! Jumbo shrimp hand breaded in Japanese bread crumbs, Everyone loves the ribs as do we but to Breakfast buffet available daily (varies sea- served on french fries with be different we chose one of the chicken sonally). Drop in and enjoy their separate coleslaw and cocktail sauce entrées, fire roasted Tuscan chicken. Two cozy lounge. Basil Pesto Mahi Mahi plump grilled chicken breasts, with a light & Vegetable Linguini • olive pesto and topped Encrusted with bacon, basil with juicy roasted grape Tony Roma’s Ribs • Seafood • Steaks pesto and bread crumbs tomatoes, artichoke 138 Banff Ave over linguine, fire-roasted hearts, red onions, fresh 403.760.8540 vegetables, mushrooms, Basil and sprinkled www.tonyromas.com tomato pesto, asiago cheese with feta. accompanied by your choice of two Daily Breakfast - 11 pm (hours may vary seasonally) $$ 43 BANFF First we eat, Then we party

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SmokeHouse Menu Check out tonights’ Live Music entertainment Karaoke Comedy Nights Dancing Lessons wildbillsbanff.com

Must be 18+ ID required  201 Banff Ave. 2nd Floor  Banff  403-762-0333 B59 This is a full-service Western themed It is hard to decide what to order from Menu Sampler restaurant and saloon named after the their extensive menu. For starters the famous Banff area cowboy ‘Wild Bill Porch Swing Corn Fritters and the Tumbleweed Onions • Crispy Peyto,’ featuring live bands, a large dance Campfire Cheese Pâté are excellent tumbleweeds of thin sliced sweet floor, big screen TVs and three patios choices. The fritters are filled with sweet onions lightly breaded and deep- with majestic mountain views. peaches and cream corn and the cheese fried, cumin blue cheese dipper pâté of four cheeses has a very interesting BBQ Nachos • Crispy tortilla chips Entertainment varies throughout the smoky flavour thanks to the addition of with house baked beans, spicy week from mountain movie premiers the house-smoked Gouda. banana peppers, black olives, crisp to line dancing to comedy nights and green onion and loads of gooey Karaoke but the weekends are always Sink your teeth into the tender, smoked, cheese, BBQ sour cream and a side country bands. The night we visited the Flinstone-sized Turkey Drumstick served of salsa floor was packed for the line dancing les- with turkey gravy for dipping, the house BBQ Pulled Pork • Braised low ’n’ sons. Everyone always has a great time! slaw, cornbread and your favourite fixin’. slow in smoky Bourbon BBQ sauce What a meal! piled high on a country loaf, topped The food is good and the portions hearty. with crisp homemade slaw Their menu style is smokehouse BBQ, Then there is the Bill’s Hickory Smoked The Smokehouse Burger • ‘AAA’ and they even have their own in-house Brisket. We ordered the Bronco Size. ground chuck blended with double- smoker! Slow cooked for over 15 hours, thick smoked bacon with smoky corn slices of tender beef are served with Bill’s relish, BBQ sauce, grilled red BBQ sauce for dipping. The sauce offers a pepper, lettuce and pickle smoky, spicy zing. Just like going to a big Sausage Slider Dawgs • Three unique Wild Bill’s Legendary Saloon ol’ barbeque at Uncle Jack’s. 201 Banff Ave sausage sliders in soft pretzel buns Banff Whether for the good food or the good - Bratwurst, Kielbasa and Italian 403.762.0333 times, this is still the most fun you can varieties with caramelized onion, www.wildbillsbanff.com have with your boots on! honey mustard, horseradish Low ‘n’ Slow Beef Ribs • Country Daily 11 am - 2 am gravy, grilled sweet corn, baby No minors potatoes $$-$$$ 44 BANFF

Serving Baby Back461 Ribs, Banff Sizzling Ave. in Fajitas,The Fox BigHotel Mouth & Suite Burgers©s & More! PH: 403.760.8502

461 Banff Avenue at the Fox Hotel & Suites 403-760-8502 bestofbanff.com B60 Menu Sampler This bright split-level building inside the zled with chipotle ranch. Mini cheese quesa- Fox Hotel is a few blocks from downtown dilla wedges surround your salad offering a Terlingua Chili • Tender chunks Banff and features a mixture of stone, rich nice mix of flavors and textures. of beef slow-cooked with wood, blown-glass lighting and a giant fire- onions, peppers and chilies, place. Adjacent to the restaurant is a popular Bring your appetite for the grilled baby back topped with sour cream and lounge offering cool value with their famous ribs! A full rack smoked in house over mes- cheese - a signature dish margarita bar, Chili’s-sized drinks and a quite wood and grilled to order, ours with a Chicken Club Tacos • Grilled giant screen TV. In the summer you can also smokey sweet honey chipotle sauce offering Mesquite chicken breast, lounge on the street-side patio where you that south of the border flavor. You also get crispy bacon, Chipotle Ranch, can sit and watch Banff life pass in front of your choice of two sides. diced Tomatoes, mixed you. We know how easy it is to pack on the cheeses and lettuce pounds on vacation so don’t forget to check Big Mouth Burgers • Such as: This is a reasonably priced restaurant with out their ‘guiltless grill’ that counts your the classic BBQ Ranch, the good value and a great kids menu, making it calories, carbs and fat for you, and many of Mushroom-Swiss, and of a sure bet for families and friends. the menu choices can be altered to create a course the Oldtimer® For starters the Triple Play was a good vegetarian option. Steak & Chicken Fajitas • choice. We were able to sample three deli- Served with warm tortillas, cious items and enjoyed them all. The guacamole, pica de gallo, Chicken Crispers, Boneless Buffalo Wings cheese & sour cream and the Southwestern Eggrolls, all on one Margarita Grilled Chicken • dish, with three complementing sauces for Served with rice, black beans, dipping! tortilla strips & pica de gallo Chili’s Margaritas • Chili’s world The Quesadilla explosion salad is a meal in 461 Banff Ave famous! itself. Fajita marinated chicken over crisp Banff greens, topped with corn relish, cheese, 403.760.8502 getarian cilantro and crispy tortilla strips then driz- www.bestofbanff.com Ve Friendly Daily 7 am - close $-$$ 45 BANFF

homemade gourmet burgers – fresh salads – fries – milkshakes – beer – wine - cocktails

open from lunch until late 7 days a week – 403-762-2230 B61 Menu Sampler The Eddie burger + bar is located in the heart of downtown Banff beside the HooDoo Lounge on Caribou Street. Opened in November The Eddie Classic • AAA Alberta beef, aged of 2008, “the Eddie” has quickly become a favourite spot for locals and cheddar, double smoked bacon, grilled red visitors to Banff. onion, dill pickle, mayo, green leaf lettuce & tomato on a freshly baked whole wheat The contemporary but comfortable setting boasts slick European bun or an English muffin leather stools, comfortable booths and HD plasmas for the big game Pollo Loco Burger by Chef Sal • Homemade or your favourite ski movie. The Eddie uses as many local and fresh chicken burger, jalapeño Jack cheese, pizza ingredients as possible. All the burgers are homemade from the highest sauce, sautéed mushrooms & pepperoni on quality ranches and gardens. a hamburger bun The Eddie offers something for everyone. They have a great kids menu, Eddie’s Famous Veggie Burger • Homemade salads, shiitake mushroom gravy poutine and veggie burgers for those vegetarian patty, jalapeño Jack cheese, who prefer to go “meatless” as well the option to “go organic” when tomato, avocado, shredded carrot, selecting a beef burger! The Eddie has great signature burgers, or build cucumber, spring lettuce blend & pesto your own with an extensive list of types, sizes and toppings for burger. mayo on a whole wheat bun Eddie The Greek Burger • Lamb, feta cheese, The Eddie is more than a soda pop stand. Delicious Mackay’s ice green leaf lettuce, homemade tzatziki, cream milkshakes (with or without booze!), great draft beer on tap, cucumber, grilled red onion & tomato on a fabulous wines served from their Enomatic® wine system and some of hamburger bun the best cocktails in Banff! “Eddie” never sleeps (well, hardly!) and is Alberta Bison Burger • Green leaf lettuce, open from lunch until 3 am for the night owls! sautéed mushrooms, double smoked bacon, roasted garlic aioli & goat cheese on an English muffin The Eddie Burger + Bar Sides • Kettle chips, house salad, onion 137 C Banff Ave rings, skinny fries or sweet potato fries Banff Ice Cream Sandwich Sundaes • Strawberry, 403.762.2230 chocolate or caramel Daily 11am - 3am $-$$ 46 BANFF

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GREAT FOOD. GREAT VIEWS. GREAT MUSIC. The Rose & Crown Banff | 202 Banff, Avenue (upstairs) www.roseandcrown.ca | PH: 403.762.2121

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Banff, Alberta Alberta Cuisine 403.762.1848 www.rimrockresort.com

218 Lynx Street, Banff 403-762-5511 locally owned and Authentic Indian Cuisine operated

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Open for breakfast, lunch & dinner 229 Bear St (Wolf & Bear Mall) Banff Happy hour daily in the lounge Situated in the oldest restaurant building in Banff 403.760.6612 Proud sponsor of the Melissa’s Road Race in September

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B68 B70 Banff’s Only Brewpub

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110 Banff Avenue 403-762-1003 • www.banffavebrewingco.ca

Good Food…

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49 Hotel Directory • Seasonal Rates Apply CALGARY DOWNTOWN ing rooms. Oceanus Massage Therapy. Covered CALGARY SOUTH parking. Connected to Calgary’s covered 1330- 3630 Best Western Suites Downtown walkway system. 403-265-9600 • 800-661-8627. Best Western Calgary Centre Inn 8th St SW. Whether travellling for business or Macleod Tr S. Calgary’s newest Best Western. www.internationalhotel.ca. $149-479 pleasure, Best Western Suites is conveniently Centrally located, indoor whirlpool & fitness located in downtown Calgary. Enjoy spacious O Hotel Suites Calgary’s most comfort- center. Free parking, high speed Internet, local junior, one or two bedroom suites featuring able extended stay accommodation in the calls and free deluxe continental breakfast. free parking, continental breakfast buffet and Downtown core. Your home away from home. 403-287-3900 • 877-287-3900. www.bwcalgary- high speed Internet access (WiFi/cable). Prop- Panoramic views, elegantly finished and fur- centre.com. $89- $179 erty is to be 100% non-smoking. 403-228-6900 nishings, full kitchen with granite counter tops Carriage House Inn 9030 Macleod Tr S. • 800-981-2555. www.bestwesternsuitescalgary. & stainless steel appliances, in-suite washer/ Just minutes from downtown and two major com. $149-319 dryer, large flat-panel TV & DVD, free wireless shopping centers, 157 guest rooms/suites, five Internet, cable, phone and weekly housekeep- 110-9th Ave SE. restaurants/lounges including famous Peanuts Calgary Marriott Hotel ing. Why stay in a room when you can have a Across from the Calgary Tower, home of Cal - Sports Pub, fitness, sauna, whirlpool, hi-speed Luxury Suite? 403-668-7568. www.ohotelsuites. gary’s best dining and a block from the Centre Internet. 403-253-1101 • 800-661-9566. www. com. $89-179 for the Performing Arts. Pool, 24-hour health carriagehouse.net. $79 -245 club, Traders Grill, the Exchange Lounge and Ramada Hotel Downtown Calgary Comfort Inn and Suites South 4611 Starbucks coffee. “Just pack your toothbrush… 708-8th Avenue SW. 201 guest rooms. On site Macleod Tr S. 93 rooms and suites. Compli - we have everything else covered.” 403-266-7331 restaurant and pub. Fitness room and pool. mentary continental breakfast, indoor pool, • 800-896-6878. www.calgarymarriott.com. Minutes from major city attractions; one hour waterslide, hot tub, fitness room, central to $89-350 from Banff. 403-263-7600 • 800-661-8684. local attractions and dining. Guest laundry, www.ramadacalgary.com. $169-349 Fairmont Palliser 133-9th Ave. SW Four di- free parking, free high-speed Internet access, amond hotel. City landmark for close to a cen - Regency Suites Hotel 610-4th Avenue SW. business center. 403-287-7070 • 877-257-3678. tury. Host to dignitaries, convention delegates, The Regency Suites Hotel is your home away www.comfortinncalgary.com. $89 -229 business people. Skywalk to Calgary Telus Con - from home in the heart of the city. Experience Delta Calgary South 135 Southland Drive vention Centre, EPCOR Centre for Performing our warm and comfortable recently appointed S.E. (at MacLeod Trail). Standard/Deluxe Arts, Glenbow Museum and landmark Calgary suites. Convenience of full-size kitchens with rooms. Atrium courtyard. Business centre. Tower. Air-conditioning, bathrobe, cable with four appliances. High speed Internet. Fitness Restaurant, lounge, pub and patio. Waterslide. in-room pay movies, bathroom amenities, in- room. 403-231-1000 • 800-468-4044. www. Voice mail. Toll free: 877-278-5050 • 403-278- room business amenities, high-speed Internet. regencycalgary.com. $169-203 5050 www.deltacalgarysouth.com $149-224 Complimentary Health Club. On site restaurant Sandman Hotel City Centre Calgary 7505 Macleod Trail and spa. 403-262-1234 • 866-540-4477. www. 888-7th Avenue SW. Fabulous views, a wealth EconoLodge South S. Ideally situated in the energetic heart of fairmont.com/palliser. $189-459 of in-house amenities and superb upscale ca - Macleod Trail. Just minutes from a variety sual dining. Conveniently located on the rapid Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites of tourist attractions, restaurants, shopping transit line with easy access to all major at - Calgary 1020-8th Ave. S.W. 15 Minutes from centres, pubs and nightclubs. Our many ameni - tractions. 403-237-8626 • 800-266-4684. www. Airport and one block from Calgary’s Light Rail ties and friendly welcoming staff will set the sandmanhotels.com. $99-210 Transit (LRT) Complimentary hot breakfast bar, stage for total piece of mind during your stay. free parking, complimentary 24 hr business Sheraton Suites Calgary Eau Claire We offer 73 spacious, comfortable rooms. Air services. 403-269-8262 • 1-877-660-8550. www. 255 Barclay Parade SW. Experience our Full conditioned, free High Speed Internet, indoor hiexpress.com/calgarydt $169-209 Service Award Winning 323 all Suite Hotel in heated pool, hot tub, Business and fitness Hotel Arts 119-12th Avenue SW. Calgary’s the Heart of Downtown located in Eau Claire centre. Kitchenettes, Executive suites with first designer boutique-style hotel. Featuring Market, close to major attractions and shop - jetted tub, free local calls, voicemail and guest 12 floors of Luxury Rooms, two new award- ping. Enjoy our spacious suites with spectacu - laundry. Toll free: 888-559-0559. 403-252-4401. winning restaurants, outdoor pool patio, and lar views of the city, with two dining options, www.econolodgesouthcalgary.com $89-199 Barclay’s Upscale Casual Restaurant or Fionn Boutik (an eclectic women’s wear boutique). 4206 McCool’s Irish Pub, featuring outdoor patios Holiday Inn Macleod Trail Hotel Arts is quickly becoming the hotel of Macleod Trail S. Indoor pool, exercise room, into Eau Claire Market. Heated indoor pool choice for visitors to Downtown Calgary seek- recently renovated guest rooms, restaurant, includes a 50 ft. water slide. Great weekend ing the ultimate Urban Escape. 403-266-4611 • lounge, convention services, friendly service- rates are available by visiting our website at 800-661-9378. www.hotelarts.ca. $149-599 oriented team. High speed Internet available. www.sheratonsuites.com, or the hotel direct at “Close to downtown without downtown Hyatt Regency Calgary on Stephen 1-888-784-8370. Rates from $129-519 Avenue Walk 700 Centre Street SE. 21-storey 4 prices.” 403-287-2700 866-554-0162. www. star hotel situated in the heart of downtown. The Westin Calgary 320-4th Ave SW. macleodtrailhotel.com $99-250 Home to Stillwater Spa, only full service hotel 4-diamond hotel. Located in the heart of Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites spa in the city, 24 hr stay Fit Gym, Business plan downtown, offers easy access to shopping, Calgary South 12025 Lake Fraser Drive SE, & Regency Club Rooms, Conference/Banquet wide range of amenities, including on-site Macleod Trail S. Pool, water slide and hot facilities (30,000 sq. ft) up to 1300 people. 403- fine dining, roof-top pool, whirl-pool & sauna. tub. Family suites with two queen beds and a 717-1234 • 800-233-1234. www.hyattregencycal- High speed Internet. 25,000 sq ft. of meeting double pull out sofa. All rooms have a fridge gary.com • www.stillwaterspa.com. $169-339 space. Westin Heavenly Bed, Heavenly Bath, and refreshment centre. 403-266-1611 • 877-W- and microwave. Complimentary Express Start International Hotel Suites Calgary HOTELS. www.westincalgary.com. $259-444 breakfast every morning 6:30 am-9:30 am. 403- 220-4th Avenue SW. 248 units. All-suite down - 225-3000 • 877-429-4377. www.hiexpress.com/ town hotel. One or two bedroom suites. Meet - calgaryab. $110-200 50 Hotel Directory • Seasonal Rates Apply Super 8 60 Shawville Rd. SE Free SuperStart Award-winning hotel located only 7 minutes Holiday Inn Calgary Airport 1250 breakfast, indoor waterpark with hot tub, from the Airport. Complimentary continental McKinnon Drive NE. 168 units. Award winning airport shuttle service, access to fitness centre, breakfast, free high speed Internet access, service! Restaurant and lounge, indoor pool, free high speed Internet, meeting rooms, busi - indoor pool, whirlpool and exercise room. 403- fitness centre, free local calls, PC-friendly ness center, microwave, mini-fridge, coffee 250-1800 • 800-456-4000. www.countryinns. rooms, 24 hr. shuttle service, covered parking, maker and hair dryer. Free local calls & morning com/calgaryab. $89- $169 friendly professional staff. 403-230-1999 • 877- newspaper, guest laundry, free parking, pet Days Inn Calgary Airport 2799 Sunridge 519-7113. www.hicalgaryairport.com. $109-209 friendly. 403-254-8878. www.super8calgary. Way NE. 76 Units. Pool, water slide, deluxe con - Holiday Inn Express Airport Calgary com. $109-189 tinental breakfast, exercise room, fireplace in 45 Hopewell Way NE. Stay at Calgary Air - Travelodge Calgary Macleod Trail lobby, free local calls, complimentary wireless port’s newest hotel. Hotel amenities include 9206 Macleod Trail S. 254-room hotel com - high-speed Internet in rooms, coin-op laundry, free airport shuttle, free wireless high speed mitted to providing guest satisfaction. Rooms shuttle service for minimal cost. 10 Minutes Internet access, business center, indoor pool, have air conditioning, cable TV, pay-per-view from airport and downtown. 403-250-3297 • hot tub, water slide, fitness center and guest movies and Nintendo. Non-smoking rooms are 800-329-7466. www.daysinn.com. $119-189 laundry. Enjoy our complimentary Express Start available. Amenities include indoor swimming Delta Calgary Airport Hotel 2001 Hot Breakfast served each morning. Ask about pool, whirlpool, Sleepy Bear’s Den and Comedy Airport Road NE. Conveniently located in the hosting your next business meeting with us. Club. 403-253-7070 • 877-530-9206. www. Calgary International Airport Complex via 403-769-1888 877-768-1888. www.hiexpress. thebearcares.com. $89-180 covered skywalk. Offers premiere accommo- com/airportcalgary. $115-166 CALGARY NORTH EAST dations, pool, health club and award winning Lakeview Signature Inn Calgary cuisine in a first class, friendly environment. Airport 2622-39th Ave NE. Conveniently Acclaim Hotel Calgary Airport 123 Freeport 403-291-2600 • 800-268-1133. www.deltahotels. located just 10 minutes from the Calgary Blvd. N.E. One of Calgary’s newest hotels of - com. $119-425 International Airport, offers a complimentary fering modern and sophisticated accommoda- Executive Royal Inn Hotel & Confer- hot breakfast buffet, free airport shuttle ser - tion located only two kilometres from Calgary vice, in-room high-speed Internet access and International Airport. The complimentary ence Centre 2828-23rd St. NE. 200 units. indoor swimming pool. Many of the suites are shuttle will deliver you to and from the airport Presidential suites with Jacuzzi tubs, banquet also equipped with a fireplace. A restaurant is in only minutes. Acclaim offers complimentary & conference facilities for 5-500, licensed conveniently located next to the hotel. 403- movies, roof top ‘Sky Deck’ with jetted hot restaurant & lounge, spa & exercise room, high 735-3336 • 877-355-3500. www.lakeviewsignatu- tubs, exercise room and complimentary High speed Internet, in-room theatre movies, voice reinn.com. $130-299 Speed Internet accessible everywhere in the mail, complimentary Airport Shuttle, executive hotel. Enjoy Pacini Ristorante and wine bar. rewards. Frequent stay program. 403-291-2003 Radisson Hotels 2120-16th Ave NE. Only Over 3000 sq. ft of meeting and conference • 877-769-2562. www.executivehotels.net. nine minutes from both the Calgary Interna - space available. 403-291-8000 866-955-0008 $99-225 tional Airport and the vibrant downtown core. www.acclaimhotel.ca $129-229 Four Points by Sheraton Calgary Air- Convenient access to Calgary’s key shopping and entertainment areas, attractions and busi- Best Western Airport Inn 1947-18th 2875 Sunridge Way NE Calgary’s North - port ness districts. 403-291-4666 • 800-333-3333. Avenue NE. Enjoy a complimentary deluxe east newest full service hotel, conveniently www.radisson.com/calgaryca_airport. $119-229 breakfast. Award Winning Thai Place Res- located minutes from the Airport and down - taurant, complimentary shuttle to and from town. The beautiful Canadian Rockies are only Sandman Hotel & Suites Calgary Airport, indoor pool, hot tub & fitness room. an hour away. Heated indoor pool, whirlpool, Airport 25 Hopewell Way NE. 177 beautifully High-speed Internet. “Your Home Away From sauna, steam room, full service salon & spa, decorated rooms, corporate suites with kitch- Home.” 403-250-5015 • 877-499-5015. www. complimentary wireless Internet and heated, enettes, deluxe Jacuzzi suites and executive bestwesterninncalgary.com. $89-199 secure underground parking. Our contemporary one-bedroom units. Moxies Classic Grill and Best Western Port O’ Call Hotel Ric’s Lounge & Grill is a great place to meet. MBar, upscale room service, indoor pool, large 1935 McKnight Blvd NE. Airport shuttle, car 403-648-3180. www.fourpointscalgaryairport. whirlpool, fitness room, business center and rental on site, heated indoor parking, free high ca. $159-400 meeting facilities. 403-219-2475 • 800-SAND- speed internet, free local calls, voice mail. Greenwood Inn 3515-26th St NE. 210 units. MAN. www.sandmanhotels.com. $119-249 New Waves Water Park Sept 2009, call and Convention Facilities, in-house restaurant, Sheraton Cavalier Hotel 2620 32nd Ave book your child’s party today. 403-291-4600 • room service, exercise room, hot tub, high- NE. The Sheraton Cavalier offers everything 800-661-1161. www.bestwesternportocall.com. speed Internet, fridges, free local calls, voice you need to build memories. From the sweet $119-199 mail. Perfect for the business or leisure traveler. sleeper bed in every guest room to the excite - Comfort Inn & Suites Airport 3111-26th 403-250-8855 • 888-233-6730. www.green- ment of the Oasis Waterpark, your time with St NE. 74 Units. Indoor pool & a 2-storey water woodinn.ca/calgary. $119-279 us will be well spent. With Henry’s Pub, the slide. 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51 Hotel Directory • Seasonal Rates Apply breakfast buffet every morning and Sundowner Hampton Inn & Suites Calgary 2231 The Drake Inn Canmore 909 Railway Reception every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Banff Trail NW. Conveniently located in Ave. Centrally located in the heart of Canmore Thursday. “Get Comfortable” with 24-hour northwest Calgary, close to the University of along policeman’s creek. Unbeatable rates, free fitness and laundry facility at no charge for Calgary, LRT train station, Hwy 1 and only seven continental breakfast & wireless internet, creek in-house guests. Indoor whirlpool and water minutes to downtown. Located in Calgary’s side rooms, on site pub & restaurant. Meeting slide, outdoor sport court, free local calls and Motel Village, the hotel features free hot facilities also available. 403-678-5131 800-461- wired/wireless internet. 403-204-STAY (7829) deluxe continental breakfast, indoor pool with 8730 www.drakeinn.com. $79-$169 1-866-896-7829 www.staybridge.com/calgar- water slide. “ Stay in comfort, style and value.” Econo Lodge Canmore Hotel 1602 2nd yairport. $168-231 403-289-9800 • 888-432-6777. www.hampton- Ave. Spectacular mountain views, free conti- calgary.com. $144-309 CALGARY NORTH WEST nental breakfast, free High Speed Internet, fully Travelodge Calgary University 2227 equipped conference area configured to ac- Comfort Inn & Suites University 2369 Banff Tr. NW. Spacious rooms featuring king commodate up to 84 people. Exercise facility, Banff Trail NW. 82 units, N/S hotel, Jacuzzi and sized bed and sofa, or two queen beds, & mi - air conditioning, free local calls. Rooms avail - business suites, two storey water slide, compli - crowaves. Continental breakfast, fitness room, able with gas fireplaces , patios/balconies and mentary continental breakfast, exercise room, fridges, free local calls, outdoor seasonal salt- DVD players. Enjoy on-site restaurant “Chez family rates, fireplace in lobby, free local calls, water pool. Just off Highway 1. 403-289-6600 • Francois” award winning casual French cuisine. hot tub, high speed Internet in rooms. 403-289- 888-276-8666. $90-175 403-678-5488 1-800-661-2133 www.canmorem- 2581 • 800-228-5150. www.comfortinncalgary. ountainlodge.com. $89-189 com. Seasonal rate $99-299 Quality Inn University 2359 Banff Trail NW. 105 guest rooms. Full service hotel, offers Holiday Inn Canmore #1 Silvertip Tr (off Econo Lodge Inn & Suites University complimentary high speed Internet, breakfast, Highway 1). 99 luxuriously appointed rooms: 2231 Banff Trail NW. 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Free continental breakfast, elegant guest rooms, 10 with jetted tubs, 19 gary.com. $79-189 movie channel and local calls. Hot tub, coin with fireplaces. Georgetown Pub on site, with laundry, pets at manager’s discretion, safe in one of the best patio in the valley. Smoke Free. Econo Lodge Motel Village 2440-16th room, free Movie Channel. 403-289-5571 • 800- 403-678-3439 800-657-5955. www.georgetown- Avenue NW. Clean and affordable motel 272-6232. $89-299 inn.ca $99-199 accommodation awaits you. Located conveniently on 16th Ave. NW we are only steps CANMORE Lady Macdonald Country Inn 1201 Bow from the LRT, and near U of C, SAIT, major Valley Trail. Come home to the Lady Macdon - Hospitals, shopping, restaurants and more. Banff Boundary Lodge 1000 Harvie ald. 9 uniquely designed rooms with en suite Get the best value for your money with free Heights Rd. Located in Harvie Heights, minutes baths and fireplaces. Gourmet breakfast, sunny starter breakfast, parking, wireless internet and from Canmore, extremely spacious 1 and 2 dining room, breathtaking views. Come as a local calls. 403-289-2561 • 866-501-0542. www. bedroom units with fully equipped kitchens, guest, leave as a friend. 403-678-3665 • 800- econolodgecalgary.com. $69-149 beautiful mountain views, hot tub, BBQ’s, pets 567-3919. www.ladymacdonald.com. $110-225 are welcome and multiple night stay discounts English Bed, Breakfast & Day Spa 5544 are available. “Welcome to the Suite Life”. 403- Quality Resort Chateau Canmore 1718 Dalhousie Drive NW. Each room has a Queen 678-9555 – 877-678-9555. www.banffboundary- Bow Valley Trail. Location, Location, Location. size orthopaedic mattress with pillow top for lodge.com $79-259 Our all suite property features 93 units, offer - the best sleep. For your privacy and enjoyment ing spectacular views of the Canadian Rocky there is an ensuite washroom, TV with cable Canadian Rockies Chalets 1206 Bow Mountains. Our full service hotel includes a and PVR in your bedroom. Gourmet breakfast Valley Tr. Extremely spacious 2 and 3 bedroom family restaurant, sports lounge, and full fit - served. Walking distance to restaurants, shop- units with completely equipped kitchens, spec- ness centre. Enjoy a refreshing dip in the pool ping and light rail transit. 403-286-0777. www. tacular mountain views, convenient location or soothe aching muscles in our outdoor hot englishbb.com. $63-145 just minutes from downtown Canmore, pets tub or sauna. The Quality Resort Chateau Can - are welcome and multiple night stay discounts more is the ultimate choice for views, value & Four Points by Sheraton Calgary are available. “Your Home away from Home in fun! We invite you to enjoy your stay at our West 8220 Bowridge Crescent NW. Northwest the Canadian Rockies”. 403-678-3799 • 800-386- all-suite resort in the heart of Canada’s Rocky Calgary’s Premiere Hotel. Opposite Canada 7248. www.candianrockieschalets.com. $99- 299 Mountains! 403-678-6699 • 800-261-8551. www. Olympic Park, only 12 minutes from downtown. Canmore Rocky Mountain Inn (for- chateaucanmore.com. $99-154 Featuring the Sheraton Four Comfort Bed® with duvet, complimentary high speed Internet merly Westridge Country Inn) 1719 Radisson Hotel and Conference and bottled water. Meeting, banquet facilities. Bow Valley Trail. Ideal for adults looking to Centre Canmore/Banff 511 Bow Valley Water slide, whirlpool and full-service day spa, kick back and relax… Sit by the wood fireplace Trail. 224 Guest Bedrooms featuring the Sleep hair salon, AVIS kiosk, gift shop. 403-288-4441 in the grand lobby or by your own fireplace in Number Bed. 10,000 sq. ft of Convention • 1-877-288-4441. www.fourpointscalgarywest. your suite and forget about the daily routine. space accomodating from 5-500 people, Vic’s com. $99-399 403-678-5221 • 800-268-0935 www.westridge- Steakhouse, Vic’s Lounge, Vic’s Patio, Indoor countryinn.com $82-192 Pool, Fitness Centre. Parking, high speed Inter -

52 Hotel Directory • Seasonal Rates Apply net access in all guest bedrooms and newspa - fordable accommodation and features all the Irwin’s Mountain Inn 429 Banff Ave. A per delivery are all complimentary. Gold Points amenities needed for a perfect relaxed vaca - wide variety of room types range from afford - Program. Check in on-line up to 7 days prior tion. Heated outdoor pool, indoor whirlpool, able standard rooms through to more luxurious to arrival. 403-678-3625 • 800-263-3625. www. sauna, restaurant, lounge and on site liquor deluxe suites. Some rooms sleep up to six radisson.com/canmoreca $99-299 store. 403-762-3301 • 800-879-1991. www.banff- people and are ideal for family vacations or voyagerinn.com. $75-165 Ramada Inn & Suites Canmore 1402 two couples travelling together. 403-762-4566 Bow Valley Trail. Featuring a three-storey water Best Western Siding 29 453 Marten St. 56 • 800-661-1721. www.irwinsmountaininn.com. slide, indoor swimming pool, Jacuzzi, fitness Luxuriously appointed rooms, six Jacuzzi suites, $85-200 room, meeting and banquet space. Our free two family suites, indoor pool and whirlpool, The Juniper Hotel 1 Juniper Way, Banff. deluxe continental breakfast is the perfect way high speed Internet, on demand movies, heated Perched at the base of Mt. Norquay in national to start your day!. 403-609-4656 • 888-678- underground parking, and complimentary hot park woodlands the Juniper hotel’s redesign 4656. www.ramadacanmore.com. $82-262 breakfast buffet. 403-762-5575 • 800-528-1234. echoes its retro 1950’s history using natural ele - www.bestwesternsiding29.com. $89-349 Rundle Mountain Lodge 1723 Bow Valley ments for the fifty-two rooms, King Suites and Trail. Canmore’s family favorite. 61 Cedar log Buffalo Mountain Lodge 700 Tunnel two-bedroom chalets. Bistro & Lounge open units, family rooms and Jacuzzi suites. Indoor Mountain Rd. 108 Charming rustic guestrooms for all meal periods. Toll Free: 1 866-551-2281. pool and outdoor hot tub. Park-like setting include deluxe suites and premiere accom- www.thejuniper.com $99-319 with playground, fire pit and picnic area. 403- modation, all with wood-burning fieldstone Red Carpet Inn 425 Banff Ave. convenient, 678-5322 • 800-661-1610. www.rundlemountain. fireplaces. One dining facility offers Mountain affordable accommodation only a few minutes com. $85-300 cuisine and another offers California-style walk from Banff’s downtown. All rooms are flavor, both with extensive wine lists. 403-762- Silver Creek Lodge 1818 Mountain Ave., equipped with coffee makers, refrigerators, 27- 2400 • 800-661-1367. www.crmr.com/bml/buf- Canmore A fusion of sound, texture, warmth inch colour satellite TVs, phones with free lo - falo.html. $240-355 and tranquility, brought into balance by the cal calling, four-piece baths and air condition - power and beauty of the Canadian Rock- Fox Hotel & Suites 461 Banff Avenue. The ing. Complimentary breakfast and free wireless ies. Silver Creek Lodge is the premier luxury new Fox offers a unique accommodation style Internet. 403-762-4184 • 800-563-4609. $79-174 self-catering hotel in Canmore, Alberta. Hotel in Banff, with one and two bedroom suites and The Rimrock Resort Hotel 300 accommodations unlike any other, uniquely hotel rooms. The Fox captures the historic and Mountain Ave. 4 diamond Resort with 346 styled and crafted to offer the ultimate relax - natural elements of Banff National Park, the guest rooms offering the best views in all of ing guest experience. 403-678-4242 877-598- hotel’s centerpiece is the hot pool inspired by Banff. The Spa and Health Club includes a 4242. [email protected] the original Cave and Basin Historic Site. Come gym, sauna, steam rooms, whirl pool, heated $95-275 and visit us and be sure to try Chili’s world Fa - pool and squash court. Two restaurants, two mous Margaritas. 403-760-8500 • 800-563-8764 lounges, coffee shop and large conference BANFF www.bestofbanff.com $110-699 facilities. 403-762-3356 • 1-888-RIMROCK • Banff Caribou Lodge & Spa 521 Banff Hidden Ridge Resort 901 Hidden Ridge ww.rimrockresort.com. Seasonal Rates $160-750 Ave. Impressive hand-hewn logs accent the Way. Tucked away on Tunnel Mountain, Hidden Rundlestone Lodge Banff 537 Banff Ave. building’s exterior and lobby to create the Ridge Resort is quiet and secluded with some The lodge offers a choice of 11 room styles, spectacular ambiance of this mountain lodge. of the most spectacular views in Banff. The many with two-person jetted tubs and real The lodge boasts 195 rooms, and offers added modern condos feature wood burning fireplac- wood-burning fireplaces. Other features in- value with free high-speed Internet access, es, full kitchens and patios or balconies. Soak clude free Wi-Fi and DVD rental, full air-con - complimentary heated underground parking, an in the giant outdoor hot pools overlooking ditioning, free heated underground parking, a exercise room, a 30 person jetted hot pool and the Bow River Valley and the Banff townsite Health Club with lap pool, large whirlpool and a steam room. 403-762-5887 • 800-563-8764. or gather in the barbeque area. Some pets are quality exercise equipment. On site restaurant www.bestofbanff.com. $90-400 accepted. 403-762-3544 • 800-563-8764. www. and lounge. 403-762-2201 800-661-8630 www. Banff Ptarmigan Inn 337 Banff Ave. Offers bestofbanff.com. $110-550 rundlestone.com. Reg $120-330. Suites $159-399 134 guest rooms just steps from downtown. High Country Inn 419 Banff Ave. Offers the Spruce Grove Inn 545 Banff Ave. Afford- Natural wood accents add a warm glow to the perfect blend of rustic charm and luxurious able luxury with 120 rooms featuring individual hotels interior design. Enjoy luxury beds, free comforts. Our impressive array of in-house air conditioning and heat, coffee and tea mak- Wi-Fi, complimentary heated underground amenities includes an indoor pool, hot tubs ers, and hairdryers in every room. All amenities parking, and The Meatball Restaurant, lounge and sauna. Free buffet breakfast with every reg - available at Voyager Inn next door. 403-762- & patio. 403-762-2207 • 800-661-8310. www. ular priced room. 403-762-2236 • 800-661-1244. 3301 • 800-879-1991. www.banffvoyagerinn. bestofbanff.com. Seasonal rates $90-300 www.banffhighcountryinn.com. $98-250 com. $120-275 Banff Rocky Mountain Resort 1029 Inns of Banff 600 Banff Avenue. The Inns of Banff Avenue. 171 guest rooms located just min - Banff has some of the best views in all of Banff. utes from downtown Banff. Offers excellent With 224 rooms this 3.5 star hotel has it all – recreation facilities, both indoor & outdoor hotel rooms, condos & cottages, full service hot tubs, and BBQ area. Fireplace and fridges ski / bike rental shop, both an indoor pool and in all rooms, on-site dining, flexible meeting jetted hot tub along with an outdoor hot pool, space and free parking. 403-762-5531 • 800-661- Wildfire Grill & Bears Den Pub, complimentary 9563. www.rockymountainresort.com. $90-349 heated underground parking, free Wi-Fi, gift Banff Voyager Inn 555 Banff Ave. Just shop and more…403-762-4581 • 800-563-8764. minutes from downtown. 88 rooms, very af - www.bestofbanff.com $90-699

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Copper Door Salmon Asian Stir Fry from Zona’s from Metropolitan Grill by Chris Dmytriw by Chef Derek Godger Serves 2 Serves 2 Ingredients Method Ingredients Method Sauce Sauce: Szechwan Sauce Chop ginger and garlic cloves. Crush Szechwan peppercorns 2oz C.C. Whiskey (or other rye) Combine all sauce ingredients 2 fl oz Sesame Oil except wine and cornstarch and and add garlic, ginger, sesame 2oz Soya Sauce bring to a boil. Mix cornstarch 10 Garlic Cloves oil, and Szechwan peppercorns 1oz real Maple Syrup with white wine and add to 4 oz Ginger in to a pot and sauté until 4oz heavy cream (35%) sauce. Bring it back to a boil 3 fl oz Szechwan Peppercorns golden brown. Add beef stock, oyster sauce, Chinese plum 2oz white wine and then remove from the heat. 4 L Beef Stock sauce, Sambal and rice wine vin- 1/8th tsp. cornstarch 16 fl oz Oyster Sauce Butter: egar. Reduce heat and simmer. Soften salted butter, and stir in 24 fl oz Chinese Plum Sauce Reduce sauce until it can coat Butter chilli flakes, and chopped herbs. 3 fl oz Sambal the back of a spoon then cool. Wait 24 hours until serving. 1/4 cup salted butter You can then roll the butter in 4 fl oz Rice Wine Vinegar wax paper and refrigerate. pinch chilli flakes Sauté vegetable in a pan with 1 tsp fresh tarragon Noodle/Steak/Vegetables Salmon: 1 oz of canola oil, season your 1 tsp fresh parsley Preheat oven to 400°F. Place 6 oz Udon Noodles beef then add to pan. Sear the vegetables and steak until skinless salmon filet in baking 3 oz of green peppers, red golden brown. Add 4 fl oz of Salmon pan as close to the same size of peppers, water chestnuts, the fish as possible. Pour sauce Szechwan sauce. Stir all the One large filet of Salmon (high onion and snap peas over and sprinkle with coarse veggies and steak together in fat content is recommended) black pepper. Ideally you could 3 oz AAA Striploin the sauce. Blanche your Udon cut the salmon in to the portion 2 oz fried chow mein noodles noodles until al Dente…Place sizes of how many guests you into bowl the carefully top the are serving and then arrange noodles with your stir-fry mix- in a pan so the entire pan is ture. Garnish with fried Chow covered. Mein noodles and green onion curls. Serve with chop sticks Place salmon in oven, close door and turn oven down to 275°F. Depending on the thick- ness of your salmon it should take about 25 minutes. You will know when it’s cooked when you can push down on a fillet and it will slide apart (like a fan) The great thing about this dish is, that it is really hard to wreck the salmon cooking it too long. It will taste great no matter what, so enjoy your wine while cooking up your (suggested) rice and asparagus sides.

One minute before serving place a thick slice of your tarragon butter on each piece of salmon.

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Smoked Meatzza Bison Tartare with 65˚ Egg Yolk & Wild Herbs from Beer Revolution from Eden by Chef Mark Jekschtat by Chef de Cuisine David Hassel Serves 1 Serves 4 Ingredients Method Ingredients Method 1 Portion of your favorite pizza • Pre-heat oven to 450 degrees Tartare Bring a saucepan of water to Fahrenheit. Place pizza stone 65˚C and maintain at this tem- dough or premade crust 250g Bison Tenderloin in oven while it pre-heats. perature. Submerge the eggs Pizza stone • Mix pizza dough and roll into 1 tsp Capers for 75 minutes. Set aside until Cream Cheese the desired shape or prepare 1 tsp Shallots cool to the touch. 100g Montreal Smoked Meat a pre-made pizza crust. 1 tsp Chives • Spread thick layer of cream Finely chop capers, shallots, 50g Smoked White Cheddar 1 tsp Grainy Mustard cheese over pizza crust. chives and chervil. Combine in 50g Fresh Arugula • Layer cream cheese with ½ tsp Chervil a large bowl. Thinly slice the Fresh shaved parmesan two layers of thinly sliced ¼ tsp Espelette Pepper Bison Tenderloin. Add to bowl Cracked black pepper Montreal Smoked Meat. ¼ tsp Lemon Zest and gently mix all ingredients • Shred smoked white cheddar together. Add the grainy mus- Pure virgin olive oil ½ tsp Fennel Pollen and spread thin layer over tard, fennel pollen, espelette meat Salt & Pepper to taste pepper and lemon zest. Stir • Once oven and pizza stone everything together, add salt have reached 450 degrees, Egg Yolk and pepper to your liking. place pizza on the stone and 4 Free-Range Organic Eggs cook for approximately 10 Place tartare ingredients inside minutes or until white ched- a ring mold on a plate. Gently dar starts to brown. remove the mold. Remove the • Remove pizza from oven and shells and whites from the eggs let stand on cutting board for and place the yolks on top of 2 minutes. Once pizza has the tartare. Serve with toasted cooled slightly, spread thick baguette and bitter greens or layer of fresh arugula on top, foraged herbs (at Eden we use finish with shaved parmesan wild purslane, oxalis, wild leek cheese, cracked black pepper and thyme flowers). and drizzle of olive oil.

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Chef de Cuisine David Michele Aurigemma Nick & Pina Ricioppo Brewmaster Robert Walsh Hassel Q Haute Cuisine La Casa d’italia Brewsters Brew Pub Eden I”m often asking myself where my As Nick & Pina’s daughter I’m Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, I After receiving an honours degree passion for cooking comes from, pleased to share with you a little grew up in Saskatoon and skied in from the University of Manchester, what propelled me to the position bit about them and how they came Whistler, BC, for numerous years UK, in 1998 I began my voyage of I”m in now. Truthfully I’ve won- to be the chefs at La Casa d’Italia before getting a job at the Whistler food discovery in Canada, spending dered the same thing myself? All I Ristorante. Brewing Co. where my wife worked. 6 months as a steward in locations know growing up in Italian cultured My father Nick decided to I was hired as a delivery driver throughout B.C and Ontario. family might have helped with the become a chef when he was 17 years because I could carry 2 kegs at once. As I spent time in the kitchen decision. The memories of the won- old – he left his home and the fam- I earned my class 5 and drove a 5 completing simple cooking prep, my derful aromas which filled the air ily farming business near Cosenza, ton delivery truck between Whistler passion for food was ignited. as my mother was preparing our Italy, in the province of Calabria to and Vancouver. Deciding to expand my horizons family meal day in and day out. go to Rome and learn. He appren- I was trained to clean the brew- through travel, I found myself in This perhaps was the birth for my ticed at a number of restaurants ery and in all facets of operations. Courchevel, France. Once there, I inspiration for food. The first time over the course of several years, but This was a creative job that was submerged myself in French ambi- I walked into a professional kitchen knew that he would eventually have hard work and fulfilling while still ence, and the art and science of cook- as a skinny, pimply 14 year old, at to have a place to call his own as his skiing, and is where my passion for ing. I learned to respect high-end my uncles restaurant and clutched entrepreneurial spirit wouldn’t have brewing began. A perfect job for cuisine. After 6 months I had a brief my first set of knives; I knew I it any other way. someone who likes to make things interlude in the UK before continu- found my purpose in life. Nick, newly married to his wife perfect every time since even little ing my adventure in Australia. I was I love the idea around the goal (my mother) Pina decided to move things matter with beer. Promoted offered the opportunity to run my of mastering the whole gastronomic to Calgary in 1968 with their then to Assistant Brewer, I trained until own kitchen in Sydney, and readily process - from leading and inspiring 1-year old daughter. After working I became Head Brewer after 4 years. dived into the opportunity. a team to delivering faultless cook- at some of the best restaurants in A highlight of my time with Enjoying my experience in ing at every service, everyday, every the city they purchased their first Whistler was winning Gold, Silver Australia, I realized that I missed week. With no room for error. I restaurant within 8 years of moving & Bronze medals in the World Beer Canada and decided to follow my thrive on the pressures for perfec- to Canada. By 1971 they also had 4 Championships for products pulled heart back. I decided to settle in tion. Although that is impossible, daughters…. from the bottling line without my Stratford, Ontario for 3 years where being a cook allows you to keep After a very successful run in the knowledge. Very gratifying! I worked my way from Chef de trying, never settling giving 100% business, they temporarily retired When my wife became pregnant Partie to Executive Chef. Ontario all day every day. I ask why work in 1989 but purchased the building we decided to find a place to live that was able to provide me with new 16 hours a day just to be medio- where La Casa d’Italia calls home provided a stable and encouraging points of view but, always eager for cre? Ultimately providing the guests from the original owner. They leased environment. exploration and adventure; I found with a unique journey through my it out to a number of different own- I started my new job with that Alberta’s delightful scenery and cultures and emotions gives me ers over the years but by 2008 found Brewsters Brewpub in Edmonton bountiful natural resources were call- great pleasure and is very nourish- themselves in the position of having in 1995. It was the perfect place for ing me. When an opportunity arose ing. to come out of retirement to restore me to work and creating products for me to come to Banff, with The the restaurant to its former glory. previously unseen in Alberta was Rimrock Resort Hotel, and show- La Casa d’Italia first opened invigorating and challenging. case my talents in their 5-Diamond in Calgary in 1974 and Nick & I really don’t have a favourite restaurant, Eden, I packed up my Pina have been running it with me beer style. Beer reflects the moment bags and headed west. (Anna) since November 2008. It’s a which dictates the color, aroma, I love having the opportunity to classic, authentic Italian restaurant body and taste of the product I feel utilize local ingredients and ignite and as many of La Casa’s former like having. Every season has its own all of the guests’ senses when dining patrons are thrilled to have it back, stable of beers. here at Eden. I get inspired by the new generations of diners are dis- Trying other brewery’s beers mountains and forests that surround covering the wonders & comfort of keeps my mind fresh and interested me and enjoy using locally foraged a real, homemade Italian meal. in all beer styles. herbs, mushrooms and wildflowers in unique ways within my modern French cooking style.

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57 Entertainment Listings Calgary

Atlantic Trap & Gill 3828 Macleod Trail S. Live Music from Celtic rock to lively folk, enjoy East Coast friendly hospitality and dance the night away! Thur – open mic kitchen party 8:30pm. Fri-Sat – 9:30pm live music starts. Cover at 9pm. 403-287-8811. www.atlantictrapandgill.com Back Alley Nightclub 4630 Macleod Trail S. Resident DJ Kav spins all your favourite beats and giant video screens show all the hottest videos. Wed-Ladies night male dance revue. Thu - Student Night, Thu-Sat - DJ Kav. Cover $5 before 10pm, $7 after. Doors open 9pm. 403-287-2500. www.mybackalley.com The Bank 125 8 Ave SW. Stephen Ave Mall. One of Calgary’s hottest nightlife locations. The Bank of Nova Scotia – built in 1929 – with 36 ft high ceilings, marble floors and 5700 sq. foot hall. An atmosphere of sophistication and grandeur. Headed by DJ’s Roofeo and Depths on Fridays and DJ’s Titus1 and Atwood on Saturdays, 9pm – 2am. 403- 263-4789. www.thebankon8th.com Below Deck Tavern 221 8 Ave SW. Downtown’s East Coast Experience Live Celtic & Rock! Sat - 9pm-1am. 403-452-3832. www. belowdeck.ca Black Betty Burger & Winebar 606 1 St SW. An old Hollywood inspired lounge with a rock & roll feel. Featuring live musicians Wed & Fri nights, DJ Markoshi for Rock’nRhyme Fridays, Saturdays for our ’Betty’s Night Out’ to create a sexy & sophisticated mood for the ladies. 403-265-4230. www.blackbettybwb.com Black Swan 10455 Southport Rd SW. Large dance floor featuring Top 40 and Dance. Fri – DJ Dar and Sat – DJ Siege spin from 9:30pm – 2am. No cover with reservation. 403-271-8776.

The Blues Can 1429 9 Ave SE. Located in historic Inglewood. Intimate atmosphere with great acoustics and a very good line of site to the stage. Live Music EVERY Night from 8:30-9pm to 12:30-1am with an extra show on Saturday afternoons from 3 – 7pm. Featuring Touring Blues Acts on weekends and local blues, rock & rockabilly during the week. 403-262-2666. www.thebluescan.com, [email protected], www. facebook.com/thebluescan Bookers 316 3 St. SE. BBQ Grill & Crab Shack Southern style Restaurant/Lounge Rustic warehouse interior, casual. Fri-Sat duelling pianos, take requests, small dance floor, minors allowed. 9pm-midnight. 403-264-6419. www.bookersbbq.com Broken City 613 11 Ave SW. Calgary’s Sub-Culture Live Rock Venue. Wed - Fri Live Bands (indie, rock, metal, punk, whatever) 9pm - late. Sat- Jazz Jam 3pm-6pm and hip-hop 9pm - late. Sunday is Karaoke night 9pm - late. Mon - Stand up comedy 8pm - late. Tue - Punk Rock Wingo 9pm - late. Minors allowed til 9pm. 403-262-9976. www. brokencity.ca Ceili’s Irish Pub & Restaurant 803 8 Ave SW. Modern, Irish Pub. 2 levels. Thu-Fri 6-9pm live Acoustic (indie, rock, east coast…). Fri-Sat DJs 9-close. 403-265-1200. www.ceilis.com Ceili’s Irish Pub & Restaurant #297, 9737 Macleod Trail S. Authentic Irish Atmosphere. Large venue, dance floor, patio. Thu-Fri 6-9pm live Acoustic (indie, rock, east coast…) Fri-Sat DJs 9-close. No cover. 403- 252-2700. www.ceilis.com Commonwealth Bar & Stage 731 10 Ave SW. Old warehouse converted to a revelrous night destination in Calgary’s downtown. Two distinct floors of sound with a vintage fashion-forward aesthetic. Open 7 days a week 7pm-2am, Thu – Fri 4 pm – 2am. 403-247-4663. www. commonwealthbar.ca

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Voted Calgary’s Best Live Music Venue 8 Years in a Row Live Original Music 7 Nights A Week • All Ages Reservations Recommended 1229-9th Ave SE , Calgary 403.269-5581 • www.ironwoodstage.ca • 11am-1am

Desperados Night Club and Event Centre #24, 7400 Macleod Trail – 1am. Sunday Jams, 5pm – 9pm, bring your instruments! Live Music on S. Large dance floor, friendly staff, great beats with the latest dance music! specific weekends usually at beginning of month, check website. 403-212- At Desperados the party revolves around you! Wed- Night Recess, 0304. www.hornytoadsaloon.com student and industry night, no cover for Industry and Students. Thurs & Fri-special event night, guest DJ’s, bands & more. Revolution Sat with DJ The King’s Head Pub & Eatery 9116 Macleod Trail SE. One of Calgary’s Most Established Live Music Venues. Cover rock featuring local Depths & Heartbreak. 8pm-2am, 403-453-0500. www.desperadoscalgary. bands every Fri – Sat.10pm-2am and Sunday 9pm-1am No cover Ever. com 403-259-0111. www.thekingsheadpub.ca Dickens Pub. 1000 9 Ave SW. Dedicated live music venue bringing local and international acts to Calgary 7 days a week. Entertainment ranges Ironwood Stage and Grill 1229 9 Ave SE. Located in charming from rock, metal and punk to folk, indie and electronic. Fun and warm Inglewood in the historic Gary Theatre. Live Music 7 nights a week with atmosphere. Gamer Sundays every week: board games, video games and mixed genres. Wed open mic night 8pm. Alternating Saturday afternoons 18 pc jazz band 2-4 pm and blues jam 1-5pm. Reservations recommended more. 403-233-7550. www.dickenspub.ca as shows usually sell out. Cover. Sun-Thur show starts at 8pm and Fri-Sat The Dog & Duck Public House. 5340 2 St SW. Cosy retreat in an old 9pm. 403-269-5581. www.ironwoodstage.ca white house Est. 1992, akin to real English Pubs offering Live Music. Classic rock but anything from celtic to country. Thur – Acoustic Jam 8 Jack Astor’s Bar & Grill 9823 Macleod Trail SW. Fun, casual and pm-12am, Fri – Live Local Bands 9pm-1am, Sat – Open Jam Night 7:30- energetic. Thur- Name That Tune at 8pm. Diva Fridays and Jacks Gone Wild Saturdays both at 10pm with DJ and Dancing. No line up and no 12am. 403-253-2489. www.thedogduckpub.ca cover. 403-252-2246. www.jackastors.com Fionn MacCool’s Authentic Irish Pub. 255 Barclay Parade SW (at Lobby Lounge at the Blackfoot Inn Piano Sheraton Suites Calgary Eau Claire). Wed - Live Music 9pm. Thu - East 5940 Blackfoot Trail SE. Coast Kitchen Party 7:30pm. Fri - acoustic-east coast/rock 9pm. Sat - Lounge. Bright, sunny atmosphere during the day and at night a sexy & Various-east coast/rock 9pm. Casual dress, no minors. 403-517-6699. sophisticated mood. Mon-Fri 11am-11pm, Sat 4pm-11pm, closed Sun. 403-252-2253. www.fionnmaccools.com www.blackfootinn.com Lolita’s Lounge Vintage 1940’s style venue featuring The Horny Toad Saloon 7746 Elbow Drive SW. Friendly little 1413 9 Ave SE. neighborhood pub & restaurant, cool and comfortable. Karaoke Thur 9pm songwriters, comedians and performers of all genres (burlesque, magic, comedy, theatre). Fri – Latin Jazz 9pm – 1am. Sat – Carly’s Angels (female

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59 Entertainment Listings impersonation show running for 11 yrs). Sun- singer-songwriter Joe Nolan, acoustic, blues, folk. Other entertainment varies weekly, check website. 403-265-5739. www.lolitaslounge.ca Lord Nelsons Pub & Grill 1020 8 Ave. SW. Located adjacent to the Holiday Inn Express this low-key, casual pub offers a variety of Live Bands every week. Top 40’s to Blues, Metal to Hip Hop. Music starts from 9-10pm til close. Days vary, call for info. Dance floor. 403-232-6704.www. lordnelsonsbarandgrill.weebly.com Morgan’s Pub on 17th 1324 17 Ave SW. Live music 7 nights a week. Host several well known rockin’ Calgary bands and showcase new talent with Saturday open Jam. Mon - The Spinners with the Ladies of La Gogue. Tue - BROKENTOYZ all out 80’s metal glam band. Thu- Sat - Calgary’s best bands live all weekend. Sun - Cumberland, acoustic mashups. 403-244-6670. www.morganspubcalgary.com The Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club 109 7 Ave SW. Annually recognized as one of Calgary’s Best Live Music Venues and one of the Top 50 Live Music Venues in Canada according to the CBC. Featuring original, independent live music varying from local to national bands and international touring acts. Genres range from country, folk and rockabilly to rock and punk. Every Fri – Sat 10 pm. Free Show every Fri 5pm – 9pm. Occasional weekday show. Call or check website for full listings. 403-532-1911. www.thepalomino.ca, www.myspace.com/thepalomino, www. twitter.com/ThePalomino Ranchman’s Cookhouse and Dancehall 9615 Macleod Tr S. Hottest Canadian Country Acts on the main stage Thur-Sat 9pm. Tues. Night Jam 8:00 pm/Sat afternoon Jam 4:30 pm to 8pm. Dance lessons Mon-Fri 7pm – 8:30 pm. For more information visit www.ranchmans.com Regal Beagle Your Neighborhood Pub. 3 locations: 920 36 St NE. Karaoke - Thu - 9pm-1am. 403-457-1415. 180 94 Ave SE. Karaoke – Fri – 9:30pm-1am. Music Trivia – Sat – 9:30pm to 1:30am. 403-640-7775. 410 14 St NW. Karaoke- Fridays - 9pm-1am. 403-283.6678. The Roadhouse Nightclub 840 9 Ave SW. Your Night. Our House. One of Calgary’s #1 Party Nightclub scenes since 2002! Big Party sound of top 40, remixes and mashups. Thurs- Ladies Night, no cover for ladies till 10:30 pm. Sun – Industry Night, no cover for industry guests all night. Open Thurs-Sun 8pm-2am. 403-398-7623. www.roadhousecalgary.com Rose & Crown Traditional Pub 1503 4 Ave. SW. Lively, traditional British pub & restaurant. “Calgary’s Best Live Music on the Guinness Stage” Thur – 8pm – close, Fri-Sat. 9:30 – close. All genres, check website for entertainment line up. 403-244-7757. www.roseandcrowncalgary.ca Soho Bar & Grill 801 6 St SW. A little taste of New York in the heart of Calgary. Fantasy Fridays, Top 40, Hip Hop, R&B and Old School; Touch of Latin Class Saturdays. Resident DJ Vacilon & weekly guest DJ’s. Dancing at 9pm. 403-237-6453. www.sohobargrill.com St. James Corner Irish Pub 1219 1 St SW. Authentic Irish Pub. Live bands Saturdays 9:30 pm - 1:30am featuring East coast covers and Celtic rock! Small dance floor. No cover. 403-262-1157.www.stjamescorner.ca Studio 82 Rock Lounge 510 Heritage Dr. SW. One of Calgary’s premiere live music venues. Drum & DJ Thursday, Live Rock Music Fri- Sat. 10pm-2am. 403-252-7878. www.studio82calgary.com Swans of Inglewood Restaurant & Public House 1336 9 Ave SE. Traditional English Pub located in the Carson Block building in the historic Inglewood district. Wednesday Night Jams hosted by Banjo Bill & Co. with a special guest featuring blues, country, bluegrass, folk, funky rock etc. starts at 9pm. Check website for specifics. 403-233-7574. www. swansofinglewood.ca

60 Entertainment Listings SATURDAY NIGHTS With D.J.SieGE Playing todays hottest Top 40 Dance Beats House $4.50 hiballs and Dom Bottles Remix

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The Trop 1501 34 Ave SW. Recently opened in Marda Loop. Warm, inviting, modern room. Fri-Sun - live entertainment 9:30pm-1:30 am. Acoustic with a mix of top 40, modern and classic hits. 403-457-6227. www.thetrop.ca Tropical Corner Latin Lounge 922 Centre St NE. Salsa, Raggaeton, Bachata, Meringue and more! DJ dancing in a comfortable lounge atmosphere. Fri – Sat 9pm to close. 403-669-5543.

UBU Lounge 608 1 St SW. Located in Calgary’s Original Culturehouse the Grand Theatre Junction. Wed – Sat nights feature Funk to Jazz to Hip hop to House musicians. Fri Nights with DJ Al-V for a more hip hop vibe and Saturdays with DJ Anthem for house. 403-265-6440. www. ubulounge.com The Unicorn 304 8 Ave SW. Stephen Ave Mall. Calgary’s Original Pub Monday “pub stumpers” quiz night - 6:30pm, Wed - Open Mic Jam “Calgary’s Premier 8:30pm to close. Saturday - Live Rock Music 10pm to close. Small dance floor. 403-234-8816.www.theunicorncalgary.com Live Music Venue, 7 Nights a Week” V Lounge by Earls at Banker’s Hall 315 8 Ave SW. Calgary’s only Vodka lounge. Sleek and stylish contemporary design. With an ever- growing vodka list, modern yet classic cocktails, a vibrant, buzzing Great Food and Drink atmosphere. DJs - Thurs - 8pm-2am. Fri-Sat - 10pm-2am. 403-265- Specials 3280. www.theplacetov.ca Vintage Chophouse and Tavern 320 11 Ave. SW. Chic New York Wednesday and style tavern offering live blues and classic rock Friday and Saturday evenings 10pm-1am. Small dance floor, no cover, no minors. 403-262- Thursday 7262. www.vintagechophouse.com 403.244.6670 are Wing Nights Vinyl Retro Dance Lounge 213 10 Ave SW. Retro Dance Club. Get 1324 - 17th Ave SW your groove on and dance to retro thru top 40 mashups! Thu-Sat 9pm- morganspubcalgary.com Saturday Jam 3-7pm 2am. Cover. 403-233-7337. www.vinylretrolounge.com

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West Restaurant & Bar 225 7 Ave SW. Calgary’s Corporate Tommy’s Neighbourhood Pub 120 Banff Ave. Banff ’s longest- Playground. Ladies Night Thu – 10 pm live entertainment. Fri-Sat running open mic night has moved here hosted by Gary Gonis. Full band – 2 DJ’s and 2 dance floors! Bottle service 403-237-5556.www.west instruments provided! Wednesday 10pm to close. 403-762-8888. restaurantandbar.com Wild Bill’s Legendary Saloon 201 Banff Ave. Restaurant, saloon, nightclub with 300-person seating capacity and 600 person reception. Canmore Live Music (country & various artists). Corporate events with live dinner Canmore Hotel 738 8 St. Lively tavern. Live Music - Thu-Sat (rock, entertainment. Western hospitality, an entertaining band line up, and a funk, punk, blues & more). Sun - Open Jam night. 403-678-5181. www. stomping good time. 403-762-0333. www.wildbillsbanff.com myspace.com/canmorehotel • www.reverbnation.com/canmorehotel Arts and Culture The Communitea Cafe #117, 1001 6 Ave. Unique, cozy, intimate cafe. Frequently offers live music featuring an eclectic mix of genres. Shows Alberta Ballet 341 17 Ave SW. One of the country’s leading ballet start at 8:30pm, check website for upcoming events and tickets. 403-678- companies with a repertoire consisting of traditional ballets and 6818. www.thecommunitea.com commissioned works performed in a contemporary way each season. Performances in Calgary, Edmonton and tour performances abroad. D37 Drake Pub Karaoke Mondays, live music Wed-Sat, 909 Railway Ave. Season: Sep to May. 403-245-4549. www.albertaballet.com wide range of music styles: DJ’s, funk, rock & roll, Reggae and more. 10 pm start. Canmore, 403-678-5131. www.thedrakepub.com Calgary Opera 1315 - 7 St SW. Professional opera company performing at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium. Special presentations in Banff other venues. 403-262-7286. www.calgaryopera.com Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Aurora Nightclub 110 Banff Ave. Banff ’s largest nightclub. World class 205 8 Ave SE. Live music at the Jack DJ’s playing top 40, dance, hip hop, house etc. VIP bottle service section, Singer Concert Hall. Over 65 concerts from Classical Giants, Rock N’ private lounge with DJ generally alternative music. Open Wed, Fri-Sun Roll Hits and Family Favourites. 403-571-0849. www.cpo-live.com - 9pm-2am. Check website for theme nights and special events. 403-760- Epcor Centre For The Performing Arts 205-8 Ave SE. Five theatres 5300 www.aurorabanff.com World-class concert hall Over 1800 performances and events yearly: live Balkan Greek Restaurant & Bar 120 Banff Ave. Contemporary, with theatre, dance, children’s events, experimental theatre, meetings, weddings, old world flair. Tue and Thu are “Greek Night in Banff ” featuring the sports events/competitions, award ceremonies and concerts. 403-294- exciting belly dancing of Hala Jamal, traditional Greek dancing and “the 9494. www.epcorcentre.org smashing of the plates.” Live dinner show for the whole family. Open daily Jubilations Dinner Theatre Calgary 1002 37 St SW. Interactive dinner from 11 am. Dress code mountain casual. 403-762-3454 www.banffbalkan. theatre. 4 course dinner, 3 act musical comedies and non stop laughs! 2 ca and 2/3 men – June 29, 2012 to Sept. 2, 2012. Jail House Rocks – Sept. The Beaver Bar 433 Banff Ave. In SameSun Backpacker Lodge. Popular 7, 2012 to Nov. 4, 2012. Ghostbusted – Nov. 9, 2012 to Feb. 9, 2013. 403- for its cheap prices and lively international atmosphere. Trivia Mondays, 249-7799.; www.jubilations.ca Open Mic Thursdays, DJ’s and live concerts - reggae, rock, hip hop and Lunchbox Theatre 160, 115 9 Ave SE. Over 35 years of lunchtime more. Check website for times and dates. 403-762-4499. www.samesun. theatre. Lunchtime and evening performances under one hour in length. com Season: Sept to May. 403-265-4292. www.lunchboxtheatre.com Bruno’s Bar & Grill 305 Caribou St. Nestled just off Banff Ave. Bruno’s Mount Royal Conservatory 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW. One of has all the charm and comfort of the Rockies. Live Music weekly. Karaoke Western Canada’s largest performing arts conservatories. Celebrating 100 Thur and Jam Nights on Fridays. Variety of live bands on off nights. 403- years in 2011 and continues to present student and faculty performances 762-8115. www.taximike.com/brunos.html throughout the year. 403-440-6821. www.mtroyal.ca/conservatory Dancing Sasquatch 120 Banff Ave. Canadian Cabin themed bar. DJ’s, Theatre Calgary 222 9 Ave SE. Dramas, comedies and musicals. big sound and funky lights. Open daily 9pm-2am. 403-762-4002. www. One person shows to large musicals with live orchestra. Six annual banffsasquatch.com productions. Weekend matinees. Tickets: 403-294-7447. 403-294-7440. www.theatrecalgary.com D38 Hoodoo Lounge 137 Banff Ave. Nightclub with a pumping dance floor, resident DJ’s and guests playing everything from top 40, dance, hip hop, One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre 2 flr., 225 8 Ave SE. house and electronica. VIP bottle service. Open Mon-Tue, Thu-Sat 9pm- Presenters of live theatre, dance, music and other interdisciplinary work 2am. Caribou Street beside the Eddie burger + bar. Check website for for 25 years. Toured North America, Australia, Asia, Mexico and Europe. theme nights and special events. 403-760-8636 www.hoodoolounge.com Based in the Big Secret Theatre in the Epcor Centre for Performing Arts. The Paddock Pub 124 Banff Ave. Cozy pub located in the heart of 403-264-3224. www.oyr.org downtown Banff featuring various themed nights. Pub Trivia Night Tue - Theatre Junction Grand 608 1 St SW. Contemporary live arts including 8 pm. Karaoke Sun - 9:30pm. 403-760-8543. www.mountroyalhotel.com local, national and international theatre, dance and music. Western Rose & Crown Pub 202 Banff Ave. Live music 7 nights a week, 364 days Canada’s oldest theatre in the heart of downtown Calgary. Season: Sep to a year! Acts range from grassroots local favourites to international, major Apr. 403-205-2922. www.theatrejunction.com label stars and everything in between (pop, indie, rock, country, rockabilly, Vertigo Theatre 161, 115 9 Ave SE. Live productions. Mystery theatre. reggae, blues and more!). 403-762-2121. www.roseandcrown.ca Y Stage productions for children (6-12). Families. Children’s shows. St. James’s Gate 207 Wolf St. Banff ’s Authentic Olde Irish Pub. Thur Calgary Tower base location. 403-221-3707. www.vertigotheatre.com - Maritime folk/rock fusion 8pm-10pm. Fri - Sat Live Celtic, rock and cover 9:30pm - 1am. 403-762-9355. www.stjamesgatebanff.com 62 Entertainment Listings

the hoodoo lounge and nightclub is host to a world-class three full service bars, huge dance floor, vip bottle service, bubbly hockey, pool table, town host to hdtvs everywhere and great nightly djs. its a world-class the perfect place to hit the dance floor and party all night. nightclub

downstairs, 137 banff avenue banff, alberta, canada hoodoolounge.com

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over a million the aurora nightclub features banff’s largest and most popular dance floor, people have four full service bars, vip bottle service, gone through plasma tvs, pool tables, foosball and a private lounge area complete with fireplace, our doors bar and it’s own dj.

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