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Ian Doig’s week may include dim sum lunch with friends, rummaging through indie bookstore shelves as well as scribbling in his notepad at Calgary shops and farmers’ markets. It most often concludes with a relaxing Friday evening pint of locally brewed craft beer.
Calgary is surrounded by radically diverse geography that’s made for exploration. Within easy daytrip reach you’ll find wide-open prairie, the magnificent Alberta Badlands, the forest and ranch country of the foothills and internationally renowned mountain parks. The following day-trip destinations are but a few of your options.
A beloved Calgary Stampede tradition, the city fairly sizzles with outdoor pancake breakfasts for the duration of this Wild West fest. This list featuring some of the very best free Stampede morning meals is but a small sample of such flap-jackin’ events. Calgary Stampede runs July 8 to 17, 2016.
Deliciously living up to its name, Calgary's International Avenue features a diverse selection of globally inspired restaurants. On this lengthy stretch of 17th Avenue Southeast, take a meal-time holiday at Vietnamese, Indonesian, Caribbean, Ethiopian and Portuguese eateries (for starters), and at reasonably prices.
Sometimes Saturdays and Sundays get off to a slow start. As a result, the usual lunchtime may pass you by, leaving you out and about on the weekend with a mid-afternoon hankering for food. While options can be somewhat limited, these restaurants keep afternoon hours on weekends and lend themselves to lackadaisical lounging and late lunches.
If your favourite brunch spot is booked solid on Father’s Day, treat dad to dinner out instead. Below is a selection of dining destinations just right for Father’s Day feasting, some of which present Father’s Day menus and/or Sunday specials that Dad will dig.
Calgary has developed a serious thirst for craft beer. These brew pubs satisfy with a huge array of suds created by microbreweries from Alberta to Belgium. Typical of these better beer spots, the suds-friendly food is a tasty notch above the pub-fare norm. [Craft beer at National on 17th. Photo © Yellow Pages / Pages Jaunes]
Steak may be the city’s signature dish, but vegetarian and vegan eating is easier to come by than ever in Calgary. Though few restaurants purport to be veg-only, many, including a few on this list, take care to serve their veg-lovin’ clientele very well.
Something like Cantonese tapas, if you haven’t done dim sum lunch, you are missing out. Calgary’s dim sum spots serve an excellent array of these hot and fresh small plates and steamer baskets that rivals the dim sum scene in any other Canadian city.
It may be a cheap date, but it shouldn’t feel like one. These discount date destinations will engage and impress your love interest despite their wallet-friendly price point.
Tea is giving coffee a run for its money at Calgary teahouses, cafes and boutiques. Whether you prefer it green, black or rooibos red, iced, infused or topped with a foamy matcha head, you’ll find the sit-down cup or take-home bag to suit your loose-leaf preference at these tea spots.
It’s not hard to find decent chicken wings in this town, but these Calgary food-and-drink establishments serve versions of this appetizer standard that are a cut above.
The country’s top restaurant food trend, gluten-free (GF) dishes can be found on many Calgary menus these days. More than this, many eateries now feature more than mere token GF items and offer patrons both variety and deliciousness in their GF meals.