Winnipeg Restaurants - Page 146

buzzg · #**2901** Posted **Mar 16, 2016, 6:47 AM**

Opa! is one of the best fast food places. It's actually really good and a $10 platter gets you a lot of food. I've heard good things about Taste of Mediterranean, haha.

esquire · #**2902** Posted **Mar 16, 2016, 3:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by h0twired

I suspect they are closed as there is no sign indicating that they are renovating and will be open at a later date. However it is possible...

That said. The sub place and Mrs Vanellis were owned by the same people.

I passed by it today and now there's a handwritten sign saying they're closed for renovations with a re-opening date posted.

So there will continue to be pizza at the Portage Place food court!

CoryB · #**2903** Posted **Mar 16, 2016, 10:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

I passed by it today and now there's a handwritten sign saying they're closed for renovations with a re-opening date posted.

So there will continue to be pizza at the Portage Place food court!

As long as Portage Place continues to have Mrs Vanellis they will still be lacking a pizza vendor in the food court as what Mrs Vanellis sells is complete trash. Only seen once place worse and it was in an all Asian food court.

h0twired · #**2904** Posted **Mar 17, 2016, 2:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by CoryB

As long as Portage Place continues to have Mrs Vanellis they will still be lacking a pizza vendor in the food court as what Mrs Vanellis sells is complete trash. Only seen once place worse and it was in an all Asian food court.

Portage Place is nearly an all Asian food court.

- Vietnamese Place that used to be Teriyaki Experience
- Manchu Wok
- Thai Express
- Bento Sushi
- Vietnamese Place by Thai Express
- Chef Express India

esquire · #**2905** Posted **Mar 17, 2016, 2:28 PM**

^ Haha... it's true. The new Vietnamese place is really good... not as good as places like Viva but good enough to spare me from a trip over to Sargent Avenue for lunch. The Indian place is pretty bad... fortunately with Clay Oven in the Hydro Building I don't have to bother with it anymore.

I wasn't a massive Vanelli's fan but I'd have their pizza every once in a while, I didn't think it was that bad. Although if a Pizza Pizza opened up on Graham selling slices I'd forget Vanelli's ever existed.

(What has my life become that I am a Portage Place food court connoisseur?)

drew · #**2906** Posted **Mar 17, 2016, 2:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

^ Haha... it's true. The new Vietnamese place is really good... not as good as places like Viva but good enough to spare me from a trip over to Sargent Avenue for lunch.

Love Viva - one of our favorite places in the City to go or do take-out.

jmt18325 · #**2907** Posted **Mar 17, 2016, 2:51 PM**

The new pizza place in Plol Park is amazing. They should move that concept to Portage Place.

CoryB · #**2908** Posted **Mar 17, 2016, 4:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by h0twired

Portage Place is nearly an all Asian food court

There is a big difference between serving "Asian" food to North Americans and running a food court targeting people that live in Asia. I meant the later of two.

TimeFadesAway · #**2909** Posted **Mar 17, 2016, 7:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

I wasn't a massive Vanelli's fan but I'd have their pizza every once in a while, I didn't think it was that bad. Although if a Pizza Pizza opened up on Graham selling slices I'd forget Vanelli's ever existed.

Didn't the Air Canada building replace a Pizza Place (among other things) back in the '80s?

tedtim · #**2910** Posted **Mar 18, 2016, 11:05 AM**

The convenience store on Graham across from The Bay sells pizza by the slice. Haven't tried it though.

cheswick · #**2911** Posted **Mar 18, 2016, 1:34 PM**

Thom Bergen opened this morning.

Authentic_City · #**2912** Posted **Mar 22, 2016, 3:54 PM**

Peg Beer Co. has posted their menu:

http://pegbeer.com/food/

cutchemist42 · #**2913** Posted **Mar 22, 2016, 4:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

^ Haha... it's true. The new Vietnamese place is really good... not as good as places like Viva but good enough to spare me from a trip over to Sargent Avenue for lunch. The Indian place is pretty bad... fortunately with Clay Oven in the Hydro Building I don't have to bother with it anymore.

I wasn't a massive Vanelli's fan but I'd have their pizza every once in a while, I didn't think it was that bad. Although if a Pizza Pizza opened up on Graham selling slices I'd forget Vanelli's ever existed.

(What has my life become that I am a Portage Place food court connoisseur?)

Viva is great.

cutchemist42 · #**2914** Posted **Mar 22, 2016, 4:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Authentic_City

Peg Beer Co. has posted their menu:

http://pegbeer.com/food/

Different menu. No individual items like burgers and such which I expected. Either flatbread pizzas or larger-shared items.

cheswick · #**2915** Posted **Mar 23, 2016, 7:37 PM**

Cafe 22 on Corydon grand re-opening is tomorrow.

LilZebra · #**2916** Posted **Mar 31, 2016, 8:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

In some respects everything in downtown Winnipeg is isolated in that way. The interconnectedness between different things is terrible... there really aren't any strips of anything downtown besides offices.

That's why when I travelled to Toronto in the early 2000s I loved the Entertainment District portion of King St.

Toronto's King St. West (4 min. drive tour) incl. King at Bay St.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c8TSfejcwg

Toronto's King St. (2 min. drive tour)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z9CAbB4x2g

Toronto's King St. East (20 min. tour) incl. King at Yonge St.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOwz4wOkqdQ

It has hotels, businesses, and lots of restaurants that face a very active street with streetcars going past every 30 seconds, people in suits walking walking walking, cars, hotel staff dressed to the 9s.

We could do something like that here, but we have to do something about the problem people.

Broadway has some "international" flair, sort of European Parisian that comes the closest, especially around the Hotel Fort Garry and near the Legislature/Memorial Blvd. corner.

Aside from that the best areas to mould into a Toronto King St.-like street would be the west Exchange Dist. streets., but not too far off from Main St.

Authentic_City · #**2917** Posted **Apr 4, 2016, 12:35 PM**

What's going on at former Zax on Portage @ Wall St? Renos have been underway for a few weeks.

LilZebra · #**2918** Posted **Apr 4, 2016, 5:34 PM**

Zax was a good place to get a real hamburger. Before them was another burger & fries.

It's Wolseley area, so maybe they're not so much into beef.

Put it where BK is at Confusion Corner or in Corydon Village.

SKYSTHELIMIT · #**2919** Posted **Apr 4, 2016, 7:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by jimj_wpg

Zax was a good place to get a real hamburger. Before them was another burger & fries.

It's Wolseley area, so maybe they're not so much into beef.

Put it where BK is at Confusion Corner or in Corydon Village.

Right, The Burger Factory or something. Definitely like the indys for burgers rather than the major chains.

Every spring I start thinking about a Kingburger and chili fries from Mrs.Mikes no matter what city I'm living in.

Intrepid-Poster · #**2920** Posted **Apr 5, 2016, 9:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by SKYSTHELIMIT

Right, The Burger Factory or something. Definitely like the indys for burgers rather than the major chains.

Every spring I start thinking about a Kingburger and chili fries from Mrs.Mikes no matter what city I'm living in.

Burger Factory was replaced with Wall Street Burgers. WSB was awful. Zax took over and was a noticeable improvement. It sure looks like the space is getting ready to become a new business. I guess we will have to wait and see.