Category archives for: Alberta

Calgary, CAN: Food Truck Review Could Bring More Street Eats to Calgary

Customers line up outside the Perogy Boyz food truck last summer in this file photo.

The food truck pilot project is drawing to a close after beginning in August 2011, and city officials have drafted a bylaw that would allow more trucks to launch as soon as August of this year.

Calgary, CAN: How the Smartphone is Changing How You Pay for Stuff

Merchants can turn their smartphones into registers using the Square credit card reader and having customers sign with their finger. (Square)

The path to one wallet, one application on your phone that holds all of your receipts and keeps track of your spending and helps you make payment from whatever card you want, is still going to be a couple of iterations away

Calgary, CAN: Porter’s Tonic

Add a grin to your gin with Porter's Tonic.
Photograph by: Julie Van Rosendaal , Swerve

The result is a tonic—one with a slightly spicy, complex flavour—that is on the drink menu at Taste, Market and Boxwood.

Calgary, CAN: Food Trucks Get Reserved Parking at City Hall

Photo courtesy of Flickr.

This location was ideally suited to have food truck activity, daily. So, we’ve initiated a pilot project and we’ll continue the pilot at this location.

Calgary, CAN: Calgary City Hall Makes Room for Food Trucks

Two permanent parking spots have been designated for food trucks behind the municipal building downtown. (CBC)

Food truck owners say finding a parking spot downtown can be tough

London, CAN: Downtown London Food Truck Pilot Project Facing Criticism

Lineup at a mobile eatery in Calgary.
credit : Katie Turner/Metro

A proposed pilot project which would allow food trucks to operate in downtown London is expected to be a hot agenda item when councillors meet for Tuesday’s city council meeting.

Edmonton, CA: Edmonton Food Notes – Old-Fashioned Flavour to Foodie’s Night on the Town

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It’s about making the food community smaller and more accessible for everybody,”

Calgary, CAN: Food Trucks Face Tough Tests

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Calgary’s food trucks have been selling street eats for over a year and like any food establishment are subjected to regular health inspections

Calgary, CAN: Several Calgary Food Trucks Face Health Violations

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By Contributor | CBC.ca  Food inspections by Alberta Health Services show that most food trucks that have been operating in Calgary in the past year have recorded violations. The report found 75 per cent of the food truckfleet had at least one critical health violation. Some of those violations include freezers that weren’t cold enough, lack [...]

Calgary, CA: Health Inspectors tell Calgary Food Truck Operators to Clean up their Act

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A recent check of the Alberta Health Services website has found many of those who run those restaurants on wheels have received failing grades during health inspections.