I don't eat on Denman enough and I don't know why. After eating at Wild Garlic Bistro on Denman, we walked back to my car and as we passed the windows of every restaurant, I started creating a list of places we had to visit. We'll slowly cross them off my list. I wish I could eat out every other day of the week, but my wallet has more say than my stomach.

At Wild Garlic, I ordered the mussels with the white wine garlic and herbs broth. And so my craze with mussels start. Aaron had a seafood medley, a bouillabaisse. Salmon, cod, prawns, scallops & mussels in saffron, tomato, fennel, broth. Our one critique was that the photos on the wall resembled the art placed around a tacky office in the '80s. But we were here for the food, and the food was good.

Point and shoot camera low on batteries, Blackberry low on batteries... I was forced to use his iPhone.
I guess it does take OK photos.

March 25, 2011. My dad's Christmas present from me and Char. He rock and rolled all night.

This isn't new news to most, but here are some derishous and cheap eats on Davie.
First: Pho Central. $6.95 for this bowl of pho. Rare beef and brisket. I've been to two other places downtown that serve pho and they serve it with cooked beef. Yeah, why don't they start serving sushi with brown rice? Oh wait, they do? And it's not bad? Fine. So same goes with cooked beef. It's not bad, but that's not how it's originally served.

Always have a napkin ready. Not for your mouth, but because your nose will run from the steam coming off of the super hot broth.
Two: Stephos. This is a familiar one. $9.95 for a kalamari dinner. I always recommend doing take out. There is a line-up daily and they don't take reservations for parties of 4 or less. The line isn't worth it in my opinion, so phone in the order, and laugh as you walk past the line to pick up your garlic and onion smelling paper bag. On a nice day, take it down to English Bay to eat, but stop by the corner store for a pack of gum. The garlic hovers around your entire body for the day. The least you can do is eliminate it from your mouth.
This same day, Aaron got a Vera's (on Davie too) burger with onion rings. $11.98. I won in value.

I put my LivingSocial coupon to work today. $35 for two six-course tasting meals (originally $35 pp) at Mis Trucos. I made reservations through OpenTable, which I found out you can use to gather points to convert to dollars for dining! Downside, the reservation times available through OpenTable aren't necessarily all that's available at the restaurant. The only time slots open when I made the reservations online were 5pm/5:45pm/9pm. I went with 9pm, so Aaron and I had time to kill. We went to The Score on Davie for drinks and wings. $3 wings at The Score on Wednesdays! Anyway, after killing time at the bar, we stumbled to Mis Trucos. When you walk down Davie street you'll notice it right away- it's the one that looks like a house. We walk in to a less than 10% filled restaurant. I guess OpenTable only has a few time slots and doesn't have the restaurant's full reservation time table. If I had phoned it in, we probably could have had dinner at 7pm like regular folk. The food was amazing, so I wasn't bothered for long. With drinks and before tip, it came to $108. Thank goodness for the coupon and my remaining lucky money from new years. Unemployment can be enjoyable.

#4 was my favourite.

Joined Twitter yesterday. I felt completely lost. I finally figured out the "@" business, but I'm still clueless with "#" and when I saw "Lists" my brain wanted to cry. I quickly went to Facebook started to click the tabs I was familiar with and read the "@" and "#"-less status updates before my brain exploded. I'm still not into tweeting, but reading celebrity tweets are pretty entertaining, especially during the influx of crazies running around Hollywood.