Brown Dog Cafe

vegan whole-wheat banana pancakes

If you're looking for a lovely way to enjoy breakfast, you can't do much better than the charming Brown Dog Cafe. The owners and staff are deceptively easygoing, as they manage to deliver a meal with high attention to detail, down to the adorable cookie accompanying your cappuccino.

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DOW: Old Fashioned

We thought we'd try another classic drink. The Old Fashioned has been around for about 200 years.

Recipe:

• 1/2 teaspoon sugar (or a sugar cube)
• 3 dashes Angostura Bitters
• club soda (or water)
• 2 oz whisky

Put sugar in an old-fashioned glass. Add bitters and crush sugar, spreading around the sides of the glass. Pour in a splash of club soda. Then add the whisky and stir.

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Go-to Marinade

This seafood marinade was devised by Frank Pabst, currently the executive chef at Vancouver's Blue Water Cafe + Raw Bar, who recently won Vancouver Magazine's Chef of the Year.

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DOW: Hell's Gate Brewing

Hell's Gate Brewing was established in 2008, and the brewery is currently located in Delta, near Vancouver. I was at the packy last night, and there was a promotion for their two beers, a pale ale and a lager. I forewent the tasting and simply brought home a six-pack of each.

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Organic Dark Chocolate Toffee Almonds

A Whole Foods treat found in the bulk section. These babies are huge!

Go now.

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DOW: Gin and Tonic

"Summer! It turns me upside down. Summer, summer, summer. It's like a merry-go-round."

No, not quite, but today certainly evoked it with clear blue skies, and the taste of a balmy day. To us, summer means gin and tonics.

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Chao Ga (Vietnamese Rice Porridge)

After reading a tweet about Vietnamese rice porridge, I searched for a recipe and found one that I adapted. It ended up being so yummy that I want to run out to buy nuoc mam (fish sauce) and make it again.

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