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“Egg Club”, “Egg Slut”, “Brunch Bitch”…

There must be some consultants for these private equity firms that have insisted that millennial-coded breakfast/brunch spots are the only viable restaurants now.

“Heavenly Deserts” and “Brunch Society” have both just opened up on Whyte ave too.
 
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Food Notes for January 19, 2026

OpeningsFlatboy Burgers is now open in Beaumont, inside Sea Change Brewing Co. at 5302 50 Street.DRTY Ice Cream has opened a location north of the river, inside Foosh at 10150 104 Street NW. Cheese…
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Openings
  • Flatboy Burgers is now open in Beaumont, inside Sea Change Brewing Co. at 5302 50 Street.
  • DRTY Ice Cream has opened a location north of the river, inside Foosh at 10150 104 Street NW.
  • Cheese Louise, a grilled cheese-focused spot, opened in Station Park in Old Strathcona last weekend.
  • UK-based dessert chain Heavenly Desserts opened over the weekend at 10430 82 Avenue NW (formerly Cacao 70).
  • Back in November, Spruce Grove’s El Taco Loco opened a location in Edmonton at 11520 100 Avenue (formerly Villa Bistro).
  • Leduc has a new café called Pastry Heaven & Coffee Shop, at 5201 50 Street.
  • It looks like Korean Fried chicken restaurant Bonchon is close to opening, at 10418 124 Street NW.
  • BB2 Korean BBQ is opening a second location at West Edmonton Mall this spring.
Closures
  • Epic Market at Station Park is now closed after nearly 2 years: “Operating at that corner was unfortunately a Herculean task without parking or foot traffic…We’ll be pursuing a new and improved home and let you all know as soon as possible!”
 
So interesting thing that came across a couple days ago on Facebook. There was the owner of a local food truck that had his picture taken and was posted on a pro Alberta sovereignty feed. The caption stating that he was the final guy that day to sign the petition for Alberta sovereignty. I won't mention the name at this point yet but I personally think that perhaps that wasn't the best thing to do on the part of that business owner. I don't know, what do you think?
 
I think business owners should be able to engage with politics without it having repercussions that affect their business. I know of a small business owner in Bonnyville who ran under the NDP flag during a provincial election, and after the election ended, people refused to buy from his shop because of his "political bias".

I don't agree with the food truck guy's stance, but I also don't think any political leaning (within reason) should affect his ability to provide for himself or his family.
 
I'm torn on that one. I don't care who you vote for for the most part, but this seems very short-sighted. And during Covid I definitely didn't support businesses who were anti-vaccine and who flouted social distancing. Increasingly, political stances are backed by values other than just blue or red. For the most part, old timey conservatives weren't certifiable nut-jobs who believed in chem trails and pizza gate type shenanigans. I honestly wouldn't care if someone was a quiet supporter of one political party or another, but when you blast all over the socials that you hate this country? Yeah....nope.
 
The thing is, people are free to make their choices about where they spend their money. For example, they may decide that the quality of the product overcomes the misgivings they have about the proprietor's politics. Or they may decide otherwise.

My point is: There are some businesses that really lean into the political sphere on social media, and they have to decide whether the juice is worth the squeeze. You can't expect to be both vocal about politics and not alienate a portion of your consumer base. Add it to the list of "business risks" on their spreadsheets, I guess.
 
Gus Haynes said:
The thing is, people are free to make their choices about where they spend their money. For example, they may decide that the quality of the product overcomes the misgivings they have about the proprietor's politics. Or they may decide otherwise.

My point is: There are some businesses that really lean into the political sphere on social media, and they have to decide whether the juice is worth the squeeze. You can't expect to be both vocal about politics and not alienate a portion of your consumer base. Add it to the list of "business risks" on their spreadsheets, I guess.
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The old Chick-fil-A conundrum.
 
I wouldn’t support a business where the owner publicly supports the breakup of our country. As a consumer, I don’t want the money they’re making off me, by patronizing their establishment, being donated afterwards to a cause that I don’t support.
 
I believe you have every right to believe what you want. I have the right to not support your business because your values conflict with mine. There may be some wiggle room because there are grey areas. but when it comes to the breakup of Canada then I don't support you. There is a certain distillery that I like but will not support now for this reason.
 
bodsbods9090 said:
I thought Rig Hand came out and denounced allowing the separatist group to have an event at their place. Or am I wrong?
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Here's what they said:

I'm not sure who told you that Rig Hand was hosting this event but that is not the case. A group has rented our space and there is a big difference between the two.

Every political party has rented our facility and hosted their own events here, and we welcome them all - NDP, LIB, CPC, PP and now ABRep. Premiers Hon. Rachel Notley, Hon. Jason Kenny, Hon. Danielle Smith and Mr. Nahid Nenshi have all had meetings here. Our aim is to be a place that welcomes all members of our community regardless of their views and, like it or not, there is a lot of diversity in our community.

As a business, we have to stay neutral with no political affiliation.

We try to offer a place to build connections, where civil open discussions and debates can happen between people that don't agree with or understand each other. Hopefully in this environment learning can happen and some common ground can be found to help bring our society closer together rather than increasing the gap between polarized views.

When events are held here, people treat each other respectfully. We rent to a very diverse portfolio of customers including Pride Leduc, religious groups, social service clubs like Kinsmen, Rotary & Masonic Lodges, cub scouts, seniors lodges, oilfield companies, EIA, wedding groups, yoga instructors, bands, Dentists without Borders, accounting firms, Indigenous elders, police officers, and the list goes on and on. Some of these groups have polar opposite political views but when they are here, they leave any ignorance at the door or they get asked to leave. If they are disrespectful, abusive or dangerous we ask them to leave and don't let them come back but that has only happened once in 11 years.

We are a small family run business who source all of our inputs locally, hire over 40 people in the community and donate to every charity that comes knocking. We treat everyone the same. We give to every single group that comes in asking for a donation regardless of their individual cause.

We are community builders.

Unfortunately, small companies like ours are under attack in today's fragile business environment because we are an easy target. Someone like you deciding that you don't support us over a social media post made by a third party can literally kill our business and put 44 people out of work. If we reacted to every email calling for us to ban a group because someone found them distasteful, we wouldn't have Pride Bingo here or the Shriners or police motorcycle events because there are people who have emailed calling each of those groups distasteful. Our business needs traffic through the door to survive so we can't pick sides.

I'm happy to sit down and buy you a drink anytime to see if I can convince you to change your mind about boycotting us by seeing things from the perspective of trying to survive this economy.

Respectfully, Geoff Stewart President / Distiller

This is why I think it's wrong to target businesses for political reasons. Bandwagon boycotts are more common than research, and it really impacts people.
 
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