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The Avenue Dinner at Notable

Posted 34 weeks 1 day ago | By The Man About Town | Avenue Live

The third dinner in the Avenue Dinner Series was held at Notable Restaurant on May 31 and it was another evening of amazing food and wine at one of Calgary's finest restaurants. Located in Bowness, Notable is award-winning chef Michael Noble's gourmet casual restaurant that shows off his passion and dedication to creating great food. ...

Avenue Dinner Series: La Chaumière

Posted 50 weeks 4 days ago | By The Man About Town | Avenue Live

Here at Avenue we're eagerly anticipating March when we'll once again unveil the annual food issue and our 8th annual Food Awards. Alongside that we'll also be debuting the entire Dinner Series line-up for the coming year. But before that, there was one last 2010 dinner to enjoy February 1 at La Chaumiere. We realized that February 1 was in 2011 but you get the idea. La Chaumiere was awarded best service in the 2010 Avenue Food...

Life Re-imagined Live

Posted 1 year 2 weeks ago | By Craig Palmer | Avenue Live

In this month’s issue we featured five Calgarians who turned their lives around for the better. But we’re not done celebrating these inspirational people’s triumphs. On Jan. 20, we will be bringing Life Re-Imagined from the printed page to Southcentre Mall’s centre court from 5-7 p.m. Come meet Ed Kang, a 34-year-old who has done it all: animator,...

Avenue Dinner Series: Cilantro Nov. 24

Posted 1 year 9 weeks ago | By The Man About Town | Avenue Live

Cilantro has been preparing delicious food for Calgarians for more than 20 years and the Avenue dinner held there on November 24 was yet another showcase for this Canadian Rocky Mountain Resorts restaurant. On a very frosty evening the upstairs room at Cilantro, which also houses Cilantro's wood fired oven, was as warm and cozy as anyone could ask for. With each of...

Back to breakfast television

Posted 1 year 10 weeks ago | By Gary Davies | The Publisher's Blog

Tonight I'm off to our third taping of Avenue Live with Dave Kelly at the Ironwood, where we have Olympic gold medalist Kyle Shewfelt as our guest, along with members of the Old Trout Puppet Workshop who are also members of the Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir. (We were actually scheduled to have Olympic silver medalist Cheryl Bernard as our guest tonight, but she came down with the flu and had to cancel. Fortunately Kyle was able to step in at the last minute.) It won't be a late night though as tomorrow I have to be up and out of the house shortly after 6 a.m. as I'm...

The Avenue Dinner Series: The Ranche Sept. 29

Posted 1 year 17 weeks ago | By The Man About Town | Avenue Live

For many years, I have had The Ranche in my list of favourite restaurants in Calgary. So when I had to chance to attend the Avenue Dinner series event there I jumped at it. The Canadian Rocky Mountain Resorts restaurants garnered two awards in Avenue's 7th Annual Food Awards last year...

Avenue Nearly Live with Dave Kelly

Posted 1 year 19 weeks ago | By Gary Davies | The Publisher's Blog

I spent much of my Wednesday afternoon in a bar. The Ironwood in Inglewood to be precise, where a group of us from Avenue magazine met with our counterparts from Kelly Brothers Productions to discuss next Thursday's premiere of Avenue Live with Dave Kelly (Update: watch the first episode). If you haven't heard by now, our two companies have come together to produce a talk-show style...

Southcentre's Free Evening of Fashion

Posted 1 year 20 weeks ago | By Kelsey Mulyk | Avenue Live

Last night at Southcentre Mall, Calgary fashionistas gathered to see the latest trends in fall fashion. The Free Evening of Fashion was a collaboration between the Southcentre and Avenue to promote the Life Re-Imagined Competition. Life-Re-Imagined is a nomination-based competition that will recognize Calgarians who have...

Michael Bernard Fitzgerald Concert: Be there!

Posted 1 year 31 weeks ago | By Avenue Staff | Avenue Live

What would the Calgary Stampede be without one of Calgary's favourite local musicians? This is sure to be one of the concert highlights of Stampede this year. Having been touring and performing constantly over the last year, in addition to his hometown fans, MBF is gaining interest across the country. His live shows are truly a spectacle. Tickets available at www.unionevents.com

Speed Design at Icon Stone and Tile

Posted 1 year 42 weeks ago | By Kathe Lemon | Avenue Live

On March 18th, Calgary's top interior designers and decorators gathered in the stunning Icon Stone and Tile showroom hidden away on 36th Avenue SE for an evening of speedy solutions to design dilemmas. Participants got the chance to meet with three designers and decorators for a 15 minute one-on-one to talk about their own home and the problems they face, whether it be picking colours, carving out more space or fixing the furnishings selections. It was an opportunity to find out what designers actually do and the solutions they...