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Comfort Food

Bread and butter pudding: warming comfort food

A great way to use leftover bread

Noodles from head to toe at Van Foodster's Noodle Mania

How much do you love noodles? Enough to go to nine different restaurants, sampling different types at each one?

Not your Momma's mac 'n' cheese at The Mac Shack

Lobster and truffle oil in macaroni? Who would’ve thought that someone could create a business that embellishes a comfort food from childhood to create a modern day macaroni?

The lost art of mac and cheese

Can increasingly commercialised restaurant formats mesh with our desire to be loved and comforted at the dining table?

Unraveling the cookie within a cookie

Incorporating Mars bars and wrapped around double-stuffed Oreos, these are some next-level cookies.

The Campfire Grill Smokin' BBQ: a rustic al fresco experience

The Campfire Grill Smokin' BBQ serves high-quality Southern BBQ in a beautiful outdoor setting. Located at the Eagle Vista RV Resort and Campground in Squamish, it is operated from a trailer...

Comfort Me With Congee

Every single Chinese restaurant in the Lower Mainland and beyond has congee on its menu. You can basically avail of it anywhere and everywhere and often I do. However, there are two places that stan