So, I’m not really 100% sure what that title means, but what I am sure of is that I’ve been on a cleanse since Dec. 26th. After a holiday season of indulging in what I’d call the appetizer-red wine-chocolate diet, my organs were starting to hurt and scream “We need nutrients!” – a cry from [...]

Saturday night I was lucky enough to be at a very happening Gastown party. It was for Kaili Zevenbergen, a gorgeous designer and artist and Mike Fraser, the wildly talented multi instrumentalist with the band Fur Bearing Animals. The dress code ordered guests to rock looks from 1977(Kaili’s birth year) to 1988(Mike’s birth year). Your [...]

You know that bursting excitement of a new relationship where you’re aglow from head to toe and constantly wondering how uncanny it was that you both had been hovering in each others periphery for the last decade and hadn’t met? That’s exactly how I felt when I found Trees Organic Coffee. Love at first sight. [...]

This is the first time Lisa’s Dining Club has been to a Japanese izakaya restaurant. In downtown there are many Japanese tapas restaurants. I have walked by Gyoza King many times and always wanted to try it. It has been recommended to me by a friend five years ago. There was seven of us for [...]