food

The Canadian Government just released a new Canada Food Guide a while ago. It made me realize I don't eat nearly enough fruits and vegetables. Although I have been eating a lot more of them since New Year's (you know because of resolutions). We might start doing one of those vegetable delivery services like spud.ca. Maybe if it comes to the door every week I'll be forced to eat it. On the weekend I had a cupcake and tried to argue that it counted as one grain product.

Mmm, tacosI am a huge fan of authentic Mexican food. After going to Mexico in June 2005 I looked around for some authentic Mexican and found Vallarta's at Renfrew and Broadway, which was close to my work. I started started making a list on paper of other Mexican restaurants that I saw in the local Spanish newspapers (that I picked up at Vallarta's). I had no idea there were so many REAL Latin American restaurants here. You will never have to settle for Las Margaritas or Andales tex-mex again (although I still love tex-mex as well, but it's a whole different cuisine)! You will never hear about any of these authentic restaurants unless you read the Spanish newspapers, drive by them, or know someone who has ate there (UPDATE: some of these restaurants have been reviewed by the local English papers as well).

With a co-worker's encouragement I finally managed to get my list online. Initially I was just going to make a simple HTML table but I decided to go big instead. After seeing zacker's drupal mashup machine screencast I was inspired to make a Google Gmap mashup that showed the locations of all these restaurants.

Map of authentic Latin American/Mexican restaurants in Vancouver

Table of authentic Latin American/Mexican restaurants in Vancouver