Staying in downtown Winnipeg is awesome. It's a short walk to the Forks and the Exchange and
there are lots of places to eat and great things to do right in the area. We are having a blast
We stayed at the Delta Hotels Winnipeg in a one-bedroom suite which had a beautiful
king-sized bed, seating area, balcony, and a gorgeous bathroom complete with hot tub.
And if you want even more of a hot tub experience you can head down to the indoor pool and check out
everything there. There's a bigger hot tub, pool and a kid's pool. The hotel also has a coffee
bar and a restaurant on site unfortunately their restaurant Blaze was closed when we were there but
that was totally okay because we wandered over to Hargrave Street Market just steps from the hotel.
There's lots of different places to try at Hargrave obviously but
our first stop was at Good Fight Taco we had tacos el pastor and they were
delicious.
These tacos are like the perfect combination of
sweet and sour, a little bit spicy. Love them. I spilled some on my pants. Twice!
But I think I've managed to get most of it off. It's worth it, it's worth it.
After tacos we wandered through Motola Grocery which is a cool boutique grocery shop that's
also in the market. It features items and sauces from the different restaurants that
you can find in the market as well as a variety of amazing fresh and canned higher end items to try.
Still feeling a bit hungry we grabbed a table at Gusto North, an awesome downtown addition to the
Pizzeria Gusto family. As always, we started by diving right into a couple of spritzes.
We found our summer 2021 beverage. Then we ordered the 887 pizza which,
for the record, is one of the most delicious pizzas in the known universe.
Oh my god, the tomato sauce has such a beautiful flavour and the
like fior di latte cheese on top and all the meat, oh yeah this is amazing.
Gusto North has impeccable cocktails made by master bartenders.
We finished our late lunch with a new entry in our cocktail compilation, the Spimoni.
So the peppercorns add just like obviously a peppery flavor
but it doesn't overwhelm just like right underneath. Beautiful that's a win.
It doesn't taste anything like spumoni ice cream. Maybe a little. Next up in
our adventure we wandered over to Qaumajuq to explore the brand new gallery and a truly
innovative space. It's home to the largest public collection of contemporary Inuit art in the world.
One of the things that we were most blown away by was the main hall exhibition. It brings together
different kinds of Inuit art and it breaks that perception that Inuit art is only about carvings.
It was also really just special being there being back in the gallery. Yeah it was awesome.
Another element that amazed us was the visible vault. It's on the main floor and it's designed
to be a working vault. So at times you'll even be able to see people in there working on the
pieces. It houses thousands of artworks all in one place and is the very first of its kind.
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To cap off our day we booked a table at Deer and Almond to try out their tasting menu.
Deer and Almond is one of our favorite places to eat in the city. The atmosphere has this modern
cool artsy vibe and the chef Mandel Hitzer is always trying new and exciting things.
That's like the best mushroom I've ever had in my life, holy cow.
I think I'm gonna do the mushroom ravioli but then part of me wants to have the pickerel,
cuz I don't have fish very often. But then we had some fish already and there's more
coming so then I think that maybe ravioli might be the way to go. I really wish that
somebody would just pick for me. But i feel like they're all gonna be good. Mushroom ravioli. Yup.
I'm so excited I made the right choice, I don't feel regret. This one here is part of one of my
all-time favorite desserts in Winnipeg. It's like an O'Henry bar, it's so good.
Okay thank you. Breakfast.
We started day two with breakfast at the hotel which was super easy to order using the Bonvoy
app. We ordered the night before and it arrived right on time. And breakfast was really good,
my wrap was like outstanding. I've thought about it several times already.
And of course you can't explore downtown without doing a little shopping so we
decided to hit up Mountain Equipment Co-op, which is always super fun to check out. And
it's really just a nice building to go inside. And yeah we found a great
new jacket there and some new comfies, so hooray! It was a successful shopping trip.
Right now we're headed to a place called Modern Electric Lunch,
which is on Main Street and it's kind of a coffee shop breakfast place.
We've never been here before, so yeah we're just gonna check it out. We literally opened
the day it went to code red, so... That's our cookies and cream Oreo. Oh, maybe one of those.
This yeah is delicious. Yeah I'm so glad we finally had a chance to pop
in there. It's like a bright super modern space, really friendly, and
it just kind of adds to the awesome coffee scene here in Winnipeg. They sell breakfast and lunch
and a bunch of really nifty looking sweets which we are going to try a little bit later today.
All right, so it is exactly five seconds later and we've decided we
could not wait until later on today to eat this cookie so
we're gonna dig in and at least try a little bit of it now. This is the cookies and cream cookie
from Modern Electric Lunch. It looks like it has some very large delightful Oreo pieces in it.
Oh that's a delicious treat. It's got that awesome home baked cookie thing where it's
like crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. Yeah I'm glad we didn't wait till later.