Wednesday, February 29, 2012

EDMONTON HOTSPOT: TEA FUSION (DOWNTOWN)



Ooh la, la! I discovered this whilst going to the Booster Juice around the corner.

Tea Fusion is an Edmonton-based company dedicated to providing fresh and healthy products. 

What I really like about this place is that there is a rewards program (unlike Booster Juice): after ten teas and/or sandwiches, you get one free! Also, for lunch, you can get .50 to a 1.50$ of your lunch! Just choose from the lunch menu!

You can also, like Subway, pick and choose what goes in your wrap/sandwich (there are many bread options to choose from in the wrap department).

Tea Fusion has a large array of tea and 'bubble' products:
  • You can blend your own loose-leaf roasted tea;
  • In the Bubble Iced Tea, if you don't see a flavour you like, ask them is they have it! Not every flavour is up on the menu, and you can pair the flavour with either a green or black tea;
  • Bubble Milk Tea;
  • Realfruit Bubble Milk Shake (regular or soy milk);
  • Bubble Slush.

You can also get products made on-location, like their muffins. So far, I have tried cranberry-orange and apple-cinnamon, and O-M-G! The best muffins I have ever had.

Forget Starbucks and Tim Hortons! If your in Edmonton City Centre shopping centre, or near the other location, this is a *must visit*. Let's help this local business bloom! FIVE STARS!

Grape-flavoured Bubble (Green) Iced Tea

Sunday, February 26, 2012

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Saturday, February 25, 2012

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EDMONTON HOTSPOT: LAZIA (DOWNTOWN)

This is the downtown location, in Edmonton City Centre shopping mall.
Source: Lazia's website.
Source: Lazia's website.
O... M... G! Wow! For a reasonable price, you can get amazing food at this downtown Edmonton restaurant.

Choose from a unique and varied menu when you come to Lazia, winner of the 2011 Dinner's Choice Awards; it gives you the option to eat either a regular restaurant portion or a normal portion, depending on how hungry you are, some drinks are unique to the restaurant itself, and the desserts are just as varied.

This chic and expensive-looking restaurant is in fact not that expensive. For one person, with two non-alcoholic drinks, a small portion plate and a dessert, you can eat for about 28$. Not bad.

You also get the option to order from their take-out menu!

I give this restaurant 5 stars, and I will definitely be back.


The small plates ginger chicken (made with fresh chicken and a ginger sauce made from scratch on the premise),
and a cup of hot apple cider.

Hot Butter sake with a dollop of vanilla ice cream drizzled in caramel sauce and served with the season's berries.