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A Guide to Menu English (via dangerousmeta) is an amusing and informative look at the wonderfully abstract world of today's menu english! Check it out!

I forgot to mention last week that June 10, 2003 was the 3rd birthday of VanEats!

We've come a long way since June 10, 2000.

Over 200 recipes.

Over 40 restaurant reviews.

And plenty of great food tips that we've been happy to share and to receive from our readers.

And last but not least, lots of great conversations with our readers about food!

We look forward to many more years of sharing our food discoveries!

Here's a photo of the Lonsdale Farmers' Market sign:

And here's the stall of the farmer (Surrey Farm Produce, 604 574-1390) who sold us the delicious strawberries we mentioned yesterday:

There's a small outdoor Farmers Market at Lonsdale Quay starting at 10a.m. on Saturdays.

Barb and I went today and picked up some wonderful fresh strawberries from a Surrey farmer. Check it out!

I am happy to report that Guu with Garlic (1698 Robson Street, 604 685-8678 ) is just as delightful as its sibling Guu!

Excellent Japanese food in small plates ideal for sharing. We particularly enjoyed the Spicy Vegetable for $2.80 which consisted of a wonderful crispy (but not too crispy) Japanese lettuce combined with a nice level of spicy heat.

Both Tim Pawsey and SaabKen recommend Natraj Fine Indian Cuisine (805 West Broadway, 604 874-5800) for its spectuacular North Shore Mountain view and Indian food at a good price. Gonna have to check this one out!

This site is very similar to June's best-bread-recipes.com. Again, no RSS file but lots of great looking recipes for one my favourite things: chocolate! Finally, I have added it to our directory of commercial recipe sites as well.

June Campbell's best-bread-recipes.com site looks fabulous. I love home made bread and there are lots of cool recipes.

Every day I walk by Umberto's Gastown restaurant Borgo Antico and see things like Monday's dinner menu which is shown above. It reminds me of a very pleasant business lunch we had there last year. Need to go back and do a mini-review! Eines Tages!

When I was growing up, we rarely ate spaghetti and meatballs. Any time my folks made spaghetti, they served it with meatsauce.

This is my version of spaghetti and meatballs. I made this in Hamilton for Roland's family as it is one of our brother-in-law's favourite dishes. It turned out to be a hit with our 5 year old nephew, Ethan, who ate 3 golfball sized meatballs and 2 servings of spaghetti!