Best calamari in the city

My appetite hasn't been so great lately, all I've been craving are deep fried, greasy foods and comfort foods. Which really narrows down the places I get to eat at, this evening I settled for Milestones near West Edmonton Mall. This location wasn't as busy as I thought it would be, on other occasions I've visited the South Common location where I've always had to wait to be seated.

The crispy calamari has easily became one of my favorite dishes, the best calamari I've tasted! Unlike other restaurants, Milestones' calamari are thick and the dipping sauce they come with go perfectly well!

Strawberry margarita 

Thai Red Curry Chicken Bowl

Pesto Chicken Penne Asiago

Milestones' dessert shots: the white chocolate cheesecake was my favorite!

Capital Ex (K-Days)

I'm probably the only person who still addresses K-Days as Capital Ex... but no worries, you guys know what I'm talking about! I went to Capital Ex solely for the food, yup, I did spend $16 on an admission to get heart-attack-foods! Unfortunately, I arrived around 9:30PM and between playing games and trying to figure out where I was going, I did not get the chance to try everything. (In addition to the following pictures, I also tried deep fried oreos (absolutely LOVED them.) Elephant ears which were too greasy because the oil was probably old. AND the banana ice-cream, which was very good btw)

Hershey chocolate and vanilla swirl ice-cream

Red velvet mini donuts: tasted like playdough, regular mini donuts taste better!

Vegetarian poutine

Before it Rained

Before it rained on Thursday evening, I got the chance to have dinner on the patio at Blue Plate Diner, located in the heart of the Warehouse District in downtown Edmonton. Might I add, it's always difficult for me to settle on a place to eat whenever I'm in this area, EVERY cafe and restaurant there is great. I chose this restaurant because my friend is a vegetarian and most restaurants do not have a wide variety of vegetarian options but Blue Plate Diner has quite a few.

Usually Sangria is made with red wine but they had an option of red or white so I decided to try white wine sangria and I like it better than with red!

Teriyaki stirfry with tofu

Mac-N-Cheese with sausage

Somewhere around the corner

On a beautiful Wednesday evening, I met up with my friends after work for dinner and drinks.We went to Cask & Barrel around the corner of 7-eleven on Jasper Ave. It's a cozy little place and the menu is mostly comfort foods! After dinner, we went to Windermere VIP Cinemas for a second dinner + more drinks!

Caesar 

Carly Temple

The Sheperd

The Babushka

The Heritage

Windermere

Bellini

Caesar 

Birthday dinner

For my birthday, I decided to go to the south side location of Tropika with my family for a simple dinner. The food was excellent as always, definitely one of my favorite restaurants! Tropika had always been my go-to restaurant for family outings, you need to check this place out if you haven't!

Satays 

Char Hor Fun

Hainanese Chicken

Sambal Clams

Sambal Bunchies

Pad Thai

Passion Punch

Tropika Sour

Taste of Edmonton

I took advantage of today's gloomy weather and went down to Taste of Edmonton! Unfortunately, it was really crowded so I didn't get to try as many foods as I wanted (but the foods that I did get to try were really good!)... so I did the next best thing and went to Teapsy afterwards!

Apple Crumble 

Maple Bacon Mac n Cheese

Eva's Waffles, I cannot stress how PERFECT this waffle was, I get Eva's Waffles every time I see their food truck!

Matcha

Takoyaki!

Everyone needs to try this taro slush!!!

Egg Waffles!

Another hot evening...

With the weather being so insanely hot these days, I'd rather be anywhere but outdoors... But I made an exception this evening and grabbed dinner at Chop in their downtown location.

I noticed that I really enjoy martinis... so here is the Raspberry Lemon Squeeze. 

The steak bites were a bit dry, but the sauces that came with them were good.

My friend couldn't finish this and complained that the serving size was too much... Chop Salad

I quite enjoyed this Roasted Mushroom Ravioli