Savour Winnipeg

Provence Bistro will close its doors on December 31, 2011. After nine years at Niakwa Golf Course, the Country Club board apparently decided not to renew their contract to provide restaurant and catering services for its membership. It’s too bad. I’ve enjoyed more than a few memorable meals in the comfortable space looking out on [...]

If ever there was a country whose customs I’d adopt, it’s Spain. Nowhere is there a country that understands better the benefits of drinking, snacking and napping. When my parents dragged me there for a family vacation though, I hated it. There were no scotch eggs, fish fingers or Birdseye beef burgers. And retreating to [...]

Legend has it Alfonso the Wise, an 11th century monarch of Spain, attributed his recovery from illness to the practice of taking small meals, or bites, with his wine. So convinced was he of the health of this practice that he decreed all taverns were not to serve wine without a snack, or tapa. Spain [...]