Monthly Archives: June 2014

Leaving the Atocha Station. Ben Lerner. (Original) Coffee House Press Minneapolis, 2011. Presume Hachette Digital retrieved for Kindle. F;06/14. I run into lots of interesting stuff reading the Paris Review, which I’ve now subscribed to. In this number (208) we … Continue reading →

Bacchus at the Wedgwood, Vancouver. June 2014. We were in town unaccustomedly on a Monday and also on a semi-holiday, so looking for a nice quiet classy lunch or brunch scene, and sadly Pastis was closed. So we opted for … Continue reading →

Belgard Kitchen, Vancouver. June 2014. For some reason I seem to misread newspaper restaurant reviews. Secret Location, for example. I did the same thing with this place. Alexandra Gill (whoever she is) reviewed it in the Globe and Mail and … Continue reading →

Cinara, Vancouver. May 2014 There are about a dozen little relatively recently-opened restaurants in town, and you have to keep at it to try them all. I was brought here by friends who raved about it and I think they … Continue reading →