Calgary Food, Drinks, Events & Lifestyle Since 2009
Food
River Café At Prince’s Island Park
A Hidden Gem, Right Out In The Open Located right in the middle of Prince’s Island Park is River Café, a beautiful café style restaurant serving up some of the best local and Canadian food in Calgary. River Café is often mentioned as one of the best restaurants in Calgary, which isn’t at all surprising given the large number of…
Food And Grocery Delivery Services In Calgary
Get Your Food Delivered! Get groceries delivered to your kitchen on a weekly basis, or if you’re just ordering dinner for tonight, below are several options for ordering food to your home in Calgary. Having groceries delivered is very helpful for seniors, people with disabilities, people in isolation, those without vehicles, or if you just doesn’t feel like going to…
Drinks
Alberta Beer Exchange – A Different Kind Of Growler Bar
Pre-filled Growlers, Grab & Go Have you been to the Alberta Beer Exchange yet? They’re a growler bar, but you can’t bring your own empty growlers to fill with beer like pretty much every other place in Calgary that fills them. What makes the Alberta Beer Exchange different is they pre-fill their growlers with beer to have them ready and…
The Ship & Anchor Eggnog – Drinking For Charity!
Shipnog Is Back! Each year, since sometime wayback in the 1990s, for the month of December in Calgary, The Ship & Anchor partners up with some local charities to donate most of the proceeds from their legendary alcoholic eggnog concoction to make our world a better place. Other than the 1.5oz of rum in it, the exact recipe remains a…
Lifestyle
Review: COSORI 5.8QT Air Fryer From Amazon
Summary Air fryers are super popular and after reading the endless amount of positive things about them whenever people talk about cooking, I went and bought the COSORI 5.8QT air fryer from Amazon. I took a risk and didn’t do much research, just bought the most popular air fryer on Amazon after reading a few reviews. The model of COSORI…
Huawei P40 Pro In Canada: First Impressions & Unboxing
The Huawei P40 Pro is a great phone, from the beautiful quad-curve overflow ‘water like’ 90hz display, to the super fast processor and exceptional quad-camera capabilities, it’s just an incredible piece of hardware that can do some amazing things. This blog post is my first look at the P40 Pro, and an unboxing. Having a good phone these days is…
Tourism
Guide: The Peace Bridge In Calgary, Alberta, Canada
What Is The Peace Bridge The Peace Bridge is a pedestrian/cyclist bridge that extends from the south side of the Bow River, to the north side, right beside Prince’s Island Park, connecting the pathways on either side of the river. The bridge itself looks like a giant Chinese finger trap, which is quite striking when you see it in person….
Abandoned: Fort Chiniki Gas Station, Near Canmore/Morley.
What It Used To Look Like Photo taken May 22nd, 2006. Photo credit: Boulianne.net Photos Of Fort Chiniki Gas Station The below pictures of the abandoned gas station were taken February 6th 2020. Conclusion Interesting place! Would love to know more information about it.
Contests
Win a Cronk t-shirt! Cronk is good.
What Is Cronk? Cronk Is The Drink In Calgary, throughout the summer of 2020 you may have seen the word ‘Cronk’ mentioned once or twice in social media land, or even in the news. The Cronk hype has ran wild ever since it’s re-discovery, making headlines throughout Canada and even the world. What Is Cronk though? Dr. Cronk’s Compound Sarsaparilla…
Win A Big Chief Road Trip Box Loaded With Beef Jerky! (ENDED)
Road Trip Season Is Here, Win Some Meat Snacks If you’ve spent any amount of time in Calgary in the last 40 years, you’ve seen and/or consumed Big Chief beef jerky countless times. Found in gas stations, convenience stores and at pretty much every stop along the highway, their beef jerky has been a road trip staple for generations. Big…
Cannabis
Where to buy CBD oil in Calgary
CBD Oil In Calgary Are you looking to buy CBD oil in Calgary? You’ve come to the right place my friend. Below is a guide for buying CBD oil and other products in Calgary, for humans and pets! Legalization of cannabis in Canada has caused quite a surge and stir in the scene, too. It’s so popular in fact, people…
Where To Buy Cannabis seeds in Alberta
Cannabis Seeds for Sale in Alberta At long last, cannabis seeds are available for purchase in Alberta, legally! Weed/Marijuana/Cannabis or whatever you call it was made legal throughout Canada on October 17th 2018, however only some cannabis products were available for purchase at that time. You could only buy the dried flower (the weed you smoke), oil, and some edibles in…
Things to do in Calgary
Huge List of Calgary NYE 2020 Events
60+ Events for New Years Eve 2020 In Calgary! Below you’ll find a list of events happening in Calgary on December 31st 2019, for New Years Eve to ring in the new year. It’s going to be 2020 already! That decade sure went by quickly. We have the event list sorted alphabetically, separated by All Ages Events and Adults only….
Christmas: What’s Going On At Westbrook Mall
The Mean One, Santa, Toy Donations, Plus A Huge Contest! It’s that time of year again, yay. Christmas is just over a month away, already, which means not only seeing family and getting gifts for cool people, but fun things to do with the kiddos. Westbrook Mall is hosting up some good stuff this year, check it out below. Don’t…
Guest Blog Posts
Submit a guest blog postI Belong Bags – A Garbage Bag Is Not A Suitcase
Eliminating Trash Bags Being Used As Suitcases At The Point Of Apprehension Or Intervention Did you know that when a child in crisis is apprehended from their home for their own protection, they often leave with only the clothes on their backs? If they are able to return to collect items, they are given a trash bag. This needs to change!…
The Mustard Seed presents Christmas with Nuela Charles
Two time Juno-nominated alternative soul singer/songwriter, Nuela Charles, has teamed up with The Mustard Seed! The Edmonton local will be performing songs from her latest album and debuting her first original Christmas song this Thursday, Nov. 21 in Calgary. FB event https://www.facebook.com/events/1118634468339999/ Buy tickets online Noted as “one to watch,” she has become an indie synch darling, landing 11 TV…
