Breakfast out - a big part of Victoria's culture
#21
Posted 30 May 2012 - 07:24 PM
#22
Posted 30 May 2012 - 08:35 PM
How many breakfast places are there downtown that are packed on a Sunday at 11:00? Shine, Mole, Rebar, Floyd's, Zambri's, Blue Fox, Lady Marmalade, Bubby Rose's, The Superior, Cup o Joe, John's Place (packed since the 80's) and then there are the one's that are just busy...
Might not be downtown, but come see the mess we create in Oak Bay on Sundays, I swear people don't eat for 2 days before coming out. There will likely be ~200 people eating breakfast at 11:00 am. Breakfast foods are incredibly popular, but maybe it's just an Oak Bay thing ...
Matt.
#23
Posted 30 May 2012 - 09:15 PM
Which reminds me that Fathers Day is coming up. (away from keyboard to make a phone call) I just called your office and booked for noon for 6. That way Gabe can join us.
Priceless.
#24
Posted 31 May 2012 - 08:52 AM
Certainly we like our coffee shop sitting here so I'll through that out even thought that's not unique. That said having four or five coffee shops all busy on the same block or two might be somewhat of a cultural indicator.
#25
Posted 31 May 2012 - 09:44 AM
:confused:People from Ottawa do know what these things mean.I asked my visiting friends from Ottawa and they said we abbreviate things. They'd never heard 'Benny's' or 'appies' before eating out here.
#26
Posted 31 May 2012 - 06:01 PM
#27
Posted 31 May 2012 - 07:19 PM
Breakfast foods are incredibly popular, but maybe it's just an Oak Bay thing ...
Matt.
Blimey!
Go to the Tea Party pancake breakfast this weekend for two burnt sausages, a soggy pancake and some weak coffee in a styrofoam cup.
#28
Posted 31 May 2012 - 10:02 PM
Matt.
#29
Posted 04 June 2012 - 06:33 AM
All of this does not mean Victoria is not unique there is so much that in combination that is unique here but this is activity based rather than behaviour. For example where else can you go down to feed seals, eat fish and chips (or mexican food) on a dock. Hop on a harbour ferry to a brew pub and have a beer then walk 100m to Chinatown to do some grocery shopping. Walk another 100m and hop on a transit bus that happens to be a Double Decker bus home. Where else can you do that? Sounds like culture to me,
#30
Posted 05 June 2012 - 11:09 AM
I was curious if others had observations of other such uniqueish anthropological behaviours of Victorians like the "thank you" to bus drivers. I've only lived in Alberta and Ottawa and don't remember it going on there. Is this a Canada thing, a BC thing? or a Victoria thing? I surely have not witnessed this on any tram or bus in all my travels.
#31
Posted 05 June 2012 - 02:53 PM
The urban hippy thing is pretty unique to Victoria as well. I know way more raw food/organic/alternative medicine "white collar" people here than I knew in other Canadian cities.
#32
Posted 05 June 2012 - 03:16 PM
#33
Posted 05 June 2012 - 06:13 PM
Not so much unique anthropological behaviours than the combination of anthropological behaviours that might be uniqueish to Victoria. The brunch thing is what made me think of it since it's come up a few times. I have a chef pal in Van who has started a few successful restaurants (none of them brunch places) and he noted the difference. He attributed it to the spread out nature of Van. It's not to say brunch is unique to Victoria rather that the activity of lining up for brunch is...
I was struck by that also. Not long after moving here, I was recommended the Blue Fox for breakfast, but was taken aback by the sight of people lined up out the door.
I went home and never tried going there again.
#34
Posted 05 June 2012 - 06:54 PM
#35
Posted 05 June 2012 - 07:06 PM
Now I'm super curious about the "thank you"...I think I'll poke around on that one.
#36
Posted 05 June 2012 - 07:14 PM
#37
Posted 05 June 2012 - 08:01 PM
I like a place that is nice to bus drivers.
#38
Posted 05 June 2012 - 09:09 PM
#39
Posted 05 June 2012 - 09:17 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#40
Posted 05 June 2012 - 09:21 PM
That was 50 years ago.
He was as much a part of our life as the milk man.
They looked out for us.
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