Winnipeg

Try Nuburger for their burgers and fries - very tasty, innovative, healthy and fresh.  Best hand cut fries ever.  (Osborne Village)

Bar Italia is great for a cappucino or a beer.  The Grove is also great food and lots of beer on tap.  (both in Corydon area)

Kenko Sushi has a very nice bento box for lunch (Corydon again). 

I've only been here a year myself, so still finding things out! 

Oh!  Forgot Baked Expectations!  Amazing cakes and very nice meals as well.  But the cakes...  Fabulous...

St. Boniface, the French-speaking quarter has good places to eat as well. For a novelty, I think there is still a restaurant on a pedestrian bridge over the Red River (on the way to St. Boniface).  Before winter closes in try having some ice cream at the BDI. I think Rae and Jerry's is great for steaks (if you're into that), and try some place like Alicia's (or maybe the Ukrainian Labour Temple still serves food at their events) for genuine Ukrainian fare. I liked The Nook for decadent breakfasts, and the Toad in the Hole for beer. There is a nice place way down Corydon towards Charleswood that serves Israeli style middle eastern food. I forget the name. Gelati at any of the several Italian ice cream places on Corydon would be nice.  And Bailey's downtown is nice but rather expensive, etc.

A person who is tired of Winnipeg is tired of life. But dress warmly.

Nightspots: Yellow Dog Tavern, High and Lonesome Club, Windsor Hotel. But there must be a host of new ones since.

Best Vietnamese: Thanh Huong on Ellice. Best Indian: A Taste of India, just a couple of blocks east of there.

And ikosmos, the place you are thinking of is Falafel Place. He used to be up on Academy when I lived there.

No one has mentioned Deens yet, or the caribbean place at the Forks market.

Out of town jaunts: Benjamin's brick-fired pizza on Eveline in Selkirk; East Beaches area (Albert Beach, Grand Marais) and the Birchwood Motel pub; Whytewold Emporium in Whytewold, near Winnpeg Beach; Lockport loop drive to see the pelicans - there are two pubs there and another in East Selkirk. Oh, and Stead Ranch Steakhouse on the way to Stead.

ikosmos wrote:

...  try some place like Alicia's (or maybe the Ukrainian Labour Temple still serves food at their events) for genuine Ukrainian fare. 

I thought Alycia's closed a couple of years ago... Is it back in business?

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A person who is tired of Winnipeg is tired of life. But dress warmly.

I love this - I am [b]so[/b] stealing it!

A good Winnipeg blog that expresses the extreme polarity of emotions most newcomers feel for Winnipeg. But I think it's exactly those extremes: sometimes awe and wonder,  oftentimes depression and loathing, that causes it to get under your skin if you live there long enough.

And hey! There's the Dairy Wip!

http://winnipeglovehate.com/

We had an account at Assiniboine CU briefly.  I was really unhappy dealing with them.  They wanted to put 5 day holds on every cheque I put in the account, including my paycheque.  I'm self-employed, so they didn't recognize the company name, business account was from another bank, so I asked if they could put the company name in notes on the account so they didn't make me bounce my automatic bills, but no dice.  When they did deign to not hold up my funds for the better part of a week, it meant standing there while a supervisor came over, looked at the account, went back to her desk, did more checking, then came back and authorized my deposit while everyone in the bank watched.  I finally asked a manager if there was some way to avoid this, and for a reason why we needed this level of scrutiny every time, I was told it was because they couldn't be assured that there was that amount of money in the company account as it was at another bank.

I pointed out that this assumed I was trying to kite a cheque every time I came in to make a deposit. Given that my mortgage payment comes out of that account, it makes no sense for me to do something that stupid.

After being treated like a criminal a couple of times a month for about 6 months, I closed the account.

Timebandit wrote:

After being treated like a criminal a couple of times a month for about 6 months, I closed the account.

Geez, I'd try Cambrian or Teachers or the Caisse or Carpathia. Or even another branch. I had to do that with Affinity over an issue (also WRT self-employment)  here.

I had to go to Vancouver to get that sort of ill treatment at a credit union. I said to the guy: at least having no credit rating is better than having a bad one. He said, "that's not actually true". I found out later he put a permanent hold on my cheques - something that ordinarily disappeared after six months with new accounts.

Of course the banks are all nice and sweet. My partner took her business there until she found out they nickle and dimed her for everything.

PrairieDemocrat15 wrote:

Aristotled, do you know if Assinoboine CU has a branch near the U of M campus? Based on what I could find on the internet, they seem to be the biggest credit union in the city. Would I be correct in assuming that? I was with Servus CU in Alberta and they have branches everywhere in the northern half of the province, which was very helpful because I hate paying the outragious ATM fees.

[url=https://plus.google.com/116563058333390146578/about?gl=CA&hl=en-CA]Yes,[... and Assiniboine is also involved in sponsoring many different community events.

PrairieDemocrat15 wrote:

I've been to Winnipeg recently and it seemed fine. The downtown seemed more vibrant and busy than Edmonton's. Although, Ed does have Whyte Ave, which surpasses downtown when it come to resteraunts, bars, and shopping.

Oh boy that's frightening. There are pockets of activity, but by and large, there's never much happening in downtown, and several major shopping centres in the area close after 6PM during the first half of the week because everybody has gone home to the suburbs. Even big events, like Santa Claus Parade and Canada Day get lots of people downtown, but once the main event is over, they're out of there as fast as they can to get back home, because there's not much to keep them there.

PrairieDemocrat15 wrote:

ikosmos, is there anything to see at the Ukrainian Labour Temple? I've read about the history of the building and being a Uke myself, wouldn't mind checking out.

AUUC Winnipeg Branch

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Ukrainian Labour Temple, 591 Pritchard Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R2W 2K4, Phone 800-856-8242, (204) 582-9269, Fax: (204) 589-3404 , ult-wpg.ca. AUUC Winnipeg Branch consists of the Winnipeg Mandolin Orchestra, the Winnipeg Mandolin Quintet, The Cheremosh Trio, Lesya Ukrainka Choir, and School of Folk Dance.

Almost five years have passed since the last national festival. Many of us have warm memories of that event. We recall the many rehearsals, the pleasure of meeting old and new friends, and the excitement when the curtain went up. Since that time, members of the Winnipeg Branch have continued with some of the usual activities and embarked on some new ones.

Perhaps the most demanding event for the Winnipeg Branch in terms of manpower is the Lviv Pavilion at Folklorama that takes place every year in August. Aside from meetings and rehearsals and culinary preparations that take place all summer, well over 700 man-hours are devoted to this activity. With close to 10,000 people visiting the pavilion every year, this is a wonderful opportunity to showcase our talent and tell people about the organization's activities.

Every year the mandolin orchestra sponsors and showcases the Festival of Mandolins. This allows the orchestra to explore different music, while remaining faithful to a Ukrainian repertoire, to invite other mandolinists and instrumental ensembles to perform, and to meet people in the community who are interested in mandolin music. Other annual events include a children's Christmas party, a bake and craft sale, Malanka, Fall Supper and the closing-of-the-season Spring Concert.

Last year, our School of Folk Dancing celebrated its 50th Anniversary. This event was acknowledged by the presentation of dancing by all the classes of the school, and was also featured as the main theme for the Lviv Pavilion in the AUUC Labour Temple.

Our choir, orchestra, mandolin quintet and Yunist dancers are often invited to appear at events outside of the Ukrainian Labour Temple. These invitations have taken us to shopping centres, museums, senior citizens' homes, festivals, colleges and many sites outside of Winnipeg. Through the Canadian Society for Ukrainian Labour Research, Winnipeg Branch members have hosted several symposia involving a wide spectrum of participants who delve into broad historical issues and topics of socio-political significance.

Members of the AUUC Winnipeg Branch were especially proud when our Ukrainian Labour Temple was designated a heritage building by the Province of Manitoba, the City of Winnipeg, and the Federal Government. Massive repairs to this building were made possible by generous donations by AUUC members and friends across Canada and with the support of the provincial and civic governments.

We remain committed to the Association's goals of promoting and preserving Ukrainian Canadian ultural heritage and to the cause of social justice for all.

The hall I think is used for other events as well, eg, Canadian Dimension magazine dinners, solidarity events, etc

PrairieDemocrat15 wrote:

People jay walk like mad in this town!

No. It's just that people in the rest of Canada are sheep.

laine lowe wrote:

I'm transplanted from the East and I am astounded by the number of pedestrian fatalities I hear on the news - many of them crossing at legal cross walks. I shed my jay walking ways in order to survive as a pedestrian. Not sheep but self-preservation.

However, it takes phenomenal restraint sometimes because this city is designed for cars first and foremost and ALWAYS! There are times where you practically have to double back just to cross a street safely. Not a great predicament if you're in a hurry or impatient.

Or if you have a physical disability.

laine lowe wrote:

However, it takes phenomenal restraint sometimes because this city is designed for cars first and foremost and ALWAYS! There are times where you practically have to double back just to cross a street safely. Not a great predicament if you're in a hurry or impatient.

Yes, and riding a bike for transportation there is almost a radical act.

Timebandit wrote:

Actually, there are a lot more dedicated cyclists here than in Regina. It's a prairie city thing, though - we have lots of space and tend to sprawl. Transit is hard to fund because of a lack of population density and the culture of just driving.

A bit of an aside, but there's a reason for that. Winnipeg was one of the cities targetted by the anti-electric bus campaign, even though Manitoba is one of the provinces with a great surplus of hydroelectric power.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/electric-buses-return-to-winnipeg...

59 years, actually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy