Days of wine and chocolate

November December issue

We salute three Edmonton restaurants on Enroute’s Canada’s Top Ten; recipes of the season; 25 years of Kinnikinnick Foods, and the Beer Guy pens an homage to Gord Downie. On stands now.

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‘tis the season of the wine dinner

So many good ones coming up: Taste Aussie icon wine at the Hardware Grill, Poplar Grove wine with Wagyu beef at La Ronde and Ruinart Champagne at Café Linnea, one of EnRoute’s Canada’s Best New Restaurants!

chocolate advent calendar

Click fast to get your mitts on the second annual Violet Chocolate Company Advent Calendar. The calendar includes a mix of bar bites and truffles with flavours inspired by the holidays. Pre-sale for the calendar is right now: https://the-violet-chocolate-company.myshopify.com. The Holiday Collection, which launches November 12, includes 36g and 78g bars, hot cocoas, novelty chocolates and a limited run of truffles. Calendars, $65, bars, $5-6/36g and $10-15/78g.

Violet Advent Calendar
Violet Advent Calendar design by Lianne Charlene Creative

tomato radio this week

Amanda and Mary talk wine and hospitality with Doris and Patrick Saurette of the Marc Restaurant: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tomato-radio/id1299103075?mt=2 and Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/tomatoradio.

chicken gumbo days

Kinnikinnick’s corporate chef Lori Grein sent us the ideal recipe for these first cold days … chicken gumbo. Bonus: it’s gluten free.

Chicken Gumbo

book your parties here!

The Glass Monkey (5842 111 Street, 780-760-2228 theglassmonkey.ca) is booking holiday parties. Call Rob or Janine to book tables of eight or up to 80, the entire restaurant. Now, that’s a party.

Glass Monkey