BUZZon.com - Columnist Andrew Sprague - Prince Edward Island (PEI)

There has never been a better local food promotion than Burger Love. No promotion has ever seen the level of public engagement and participant payoff enjoyed by Burger Love. Several restaurants were reporting over a thousand burgers sold in the first twelve days of the month long event. That’s almost a hundred burgers a day. Social media channels were inundated w

April 2013
Benefits of Smoking

by Andrew Spraque

I come from a smoking home. Dad smoked. Mom smoked. Both my sisters smoked. I think I was the last one to take them up seriously. I remember my first one. I was just about seventeen. I was driving down a country road with a girl I had a desperate crush on. She smoked and she made it look awesome. So I asked for one and lit it up. I felt like I'd reached a new level of cool. I was

April 2013
Under the Radar

I’m Dining Out Here
by Andrew Sprague

These days Jinny and I make it out to eat about once every two weeks. And like any couple we have our favourite spots. Pilot House is a regular stop, as are Claddagh Oyster House and Gahan House. Any place with house in the name, I suppose. You could say we’re creatures of habit. We try to mix it up every once in a while, for the sake of this column if for no other r

March 2013
Double the Pleasure

I’m Dining Out Here
by Andrew Sprague

There is no shortage of small cafes and coffee shops in downtown Charlottetown. Stand on the right corner of Kent and University and you need two hands to count the cafes you can see. Walk a block or two in the right direction from there and you’ll be in the double digits before you know it. Take a tour of downtown and you’ll really start to wonder if there are eno

February 2013
Go Big or Go Home

I’m Dining Out Here
by Andrew Sprague

When I first saw the Orange Lunchbox it sat in the parking lot of a long since abandoned heavy machinery business on University Avenue in Charlottetown. At the time I mistook it for a run-of-the-mill mobile lunch counter and barely gave it a second thought. It wasn’t long before I started hearing reviews about the tasty food being offered at the orange trailer a

January 2013
Eating Big at The Top

I’m Dining Out Here
by Andrew Sprague

I’ve been known to eat big on occasion. I can put it away with the best of them under the right circumstances. Any time there’s a turkey dinner, it happens. I almost always overdo it with sushi as well. But when it comes to making a pig of myself, I do my best work at the buffet. I always want a little bit of everything, and when there are twenty offerings, it can

December 2012
This Little Café Can

I’m Dining Out Here
by Andrew Sprague

It’s pretty easy to spend more than ten dollars on lunch. In fact, if you throw in a side of gravy, and a generous tip you’re probably pushing fifteen or even twenty dollars in just about any downtown restaurant. It’s almost as if we’ve been conditioned to think that twenty dollars, a quarter day’s work for thousands of Islanders, is a reasonable price to pay for a plate o

November 2012
All in One

I’m Dining Out Here
by Andrew Sprague

It is a risky proposition to try to be all things to all people. To attend to the needs of such a wide variety of individuals could drive a business owner mad. That’s why Charlottetown’s newest food venture is so intriguing. Not only is Terre Rouge Bistro Marché a market, bistro and deli, but it has one of the biggest menus I’ve ever seen and some of the most original offeri

October 2012
Good Eating

I’m Dining Out Here
by Andrew Sprague

There aren’t many couples on the Island with as much experience in the restaurant business as Hooie Larter and Ian MacIsaac. MacIsaac was a chef for years at Sirenella Ristorante in Charlottetown, not to mention stints at the Claddagh Room and Off Broadway. Larter has worked all over the place including the Merchantman Pub, the Island Rock Cafe in its heyday, and C

September 2012
Digging It Down East

I’m Dining Out Here
by Andrew Sprague

Unless you’re a farmer, the summer of 2012 has been the best summer for weather on the Island in recent memory. It’s been magnificent. I’ve been to the beach at least a dozen times, out of sheer necessity more often than not. I’ve golfed a few times and I’ve had a good many cold drinks on patios. The one thing I hadn’t done before the second weekend in August was camp, and b

August 2012
Worst Kept Secret

I’m Dining Out Here
by Andrew Sprague

The first two weeks of July were among the finest stretches of summer weather we’ve had in years. The sun shone and the rain abated for one of the longest streaks in recent memory. At its peak there were fire restrictions and water conservation warnings, both of which are fairly rare on the Island. It wasn’t great for farmers, but the first two weeks of July were per

June 2012
Ta-ke My Money

I’m Dining Out Here
by Andrew Sprague

I had my first bite of sushi when I was about twenty-six years old. It wasn’t entirely my fault it took that long. When I first heard people ate raw fish I imagined something resembling Gollum biting into a still flapping salmon. My parents weren’t keen on the idea either, so for most of my young life no one set me straight. Only in my early twenties did I first beg

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