Another year has flown by quickly, so quickly that we had missed Noshwell’s two year anniversary mark this April 4th. Tre and I are truly having fun writing this blog and sharing our favorite restaurants and stories with all of our readers, family and friends. 

Thank you, to all of our faithful readers who have followed us from the beginning, and our new readers as well. We will be banging out some exciting projects shortly. But for now, here again, are our top 5 most memorable* meals (in no particular order) this past year.

1. Brave Bull’s House of Steaks
2. Original Hotcake and Steak House
3. Judas Goat Taberna
4. Nook
5. Maenam

* By most memorable, we don’t mean the best restaurants, but through a combination of food, friends and circumstance, meals we personally enjoyed the most.

Happy Noshing,

Case & Tre

Meet the newest member of the Noshwell family: Wage, the uglydoll. Together, we’d like to wish all our readers a Happy Lunar New Year. Gung Hay Fat Choy, Gong Xi Fa Cai. And a Happy Valentine’s Day.

Case, Tre & Wage

Earlier this year, we alluded to some new things for Noshwell. And it’s taken a bit longer than expected to roll out some of these features. But here are a few things we have going.

No doubt, some astute readers will notice that we — like half the world — are now on Twitter. Our latest tweet can be seen on the sidebar. You may also follow us here if you so choose.

We’ve also added a section to the sidebar entitled Also Recommended, which uses magical elves to suggest similar posts that may interest you in addition to the one you are currently reading. As magical elves are not infallible creatures, please do not be cross if their suggestions are occasionally off. They try their best.

We’ve also decided to start unloading uncategorized photos onto everyone’s favourite dumping grounds: Flickr.

Finally, beginning with our last post, we are introducing for your Monday morning caffeine fix, a weekly series of sketches made on the coffee sleeves and faces of Starbucks coffee. Why? Because we were bored. It was largely inspired by a coworker who brought in a Starbucks coffee cup he had defaced during a meeting that he quickly lost interest in. I thought it was kind of cool, so I started to make some sketches myself. We ended up with a wall of cups which will now be on exhibit for your viewing pleasure.

There will be more to come, but for now — we thank you dear readers for your kindly patronage.

tre & case

If you don’t already have something planned for this weekend, you might want to check out Vancouver’s annual gastrofest: EAT! Vancouver. Rub shoulders with celebrity chefs and sample appetizer-size portions of signature recipes from local restaurants such as Big Al’s Soul Food or Dona Cata at appetizer-size prices ($1 to $4).

It runs from May 22 to 24 at BC Place Stadium and tickets are $15 per adult, but you can save $3 off an adult ticket if you purchase it online. Visit eat-vancouver.com to learn more.

It’s hard to believe that an entire year has passed since our first post. It only seemed like yesterday when Case and I were just toying around with the idea of a food blog as a way to share some of our favourite restaurants with friends and family.

We’d like to thank all the readers who have faithfully followed us and want you to know that we’ve got some exciting new things coming up at Noshwell over the next few months, so stay tuned. We thought it would only be appropriate to leave you with (in no particular order) our top 5 most memorable meals over the last year*:

1. Les Faux Bourgeois
2. Kintaro Ramen
3. Bon’s off Broadway
4. East is East
5. Guu 

*There was absolutely no form of scientific method used to derive this top 5 list.

Tre & Case