What makes something “brunch”? The fact that it’s the meal we call that’s a late breakfast and early lunch? The things we eat; i.e. the eggs benedicts, and stack of waffles? The time? Or is it the first meal we eat on a sunday justify as “brunch”? When I roll out of bed on a tuesday morning at 9:32 and eat half a bag of all dressed chips and chug a glass of apple juice, does that classify as “brunch”? Ever since someone once asked me what were my “favourite brunch foods” have I hated this term and overall concept of “brunch”. Even the sound of it irks me; “You want to brunch?”, “where should we brunch?”, “don’t you just love brunch?”, “I went to this really good brunch place for brunch“, “remember that time when the brunch brunch had brunch in the brunch because of the brunch and the brunch brunch brunch?” WTF is a “brunch food” anyways, guh. [click to continue…]

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Order the ramen – Hakata Ramen

Hakata Ramen

by Jason on January 10, 2012

in Downtown,Food

Happy new year! All the best to all my readers, haters and stalkers, lovers and other strangers. Now that the holiday season is winding down to an end and people are slowly rolling themselves to the gym, back to classes and cold office chairs that smell like the leftover coffee left in your mug from 2 weeks ago, it’s about time we got back on track. What track you ask? The delicious restaurant track where I’m going to show you some amazing spots to eat this year. We’re making big moves here at Shut Up and Eat and I”m excited to share all the up and coming news with you… when the time is right! I’ll give you a clue, it involves some major awesome with some kick-assness thrown in for good luck. So if you’re up to it, join me for the ride, cos it’s going to be a good one. So that being said, I’m going to start the new year with two of my favourite things, noodles… noodles and hot chicks, and wouldn’t you know it, I went to this noodle joint with one of the hottest! [click to continue…]

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Shut Up and Eat’s Year End Review!

December 29, 2011

Yes! Another year end list! Who doesn’t like lists? Well if you want to read one of the most awesomest lists that consists of awesomely delicious awesome, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve decided, like I’ve done every year, to compile my top five places that I’ve eaten at in the past year that [...]

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Chicken noodle soup, pho’ real – Pho Tay Ho.

December 12, 2011

Let it be known, I don’t like soup. Why? I don’t know. I think it comes from when I was a kid and being forced fed soup… murky herbal and medicinal soups that smelled like a mix of the inside of a cedar chest and a damp math textbook. The concept of soup never made [...]

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More menu = more delicious = Restaurant Itacate

December 5, 2011

Ahhh, winter… The season of wet pant-ankles, mall-sweats, dry skin, and wrapping-paper tube sword fights. The holiday cheer hasn’t set in for me yet, probably because I woke up this morning to rain and green grass on the lawn. Global warming isn’t all THAT bad, although it does quell the winter rage that some of [...]

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Diner reinvented – Deville Diner Bar

November 28, 2011

Eating at a bad restaurant is like getting a tattoo when you’re drunk – in the moment it seems like a good idea, you pay, don’t remember what just happened and then wake up regretting it the next morning. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been out to eat, looked at my bill [...]

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