Calgary what have I missed?

[Harju]

Originally Posted by Realtor 1

You can stand in line for a hour or 2 to get an ice cream cone at Made By Marcus on 17th Ave.

It is a hilarious site until you realize you are one of the suckers standing in the same line.

15 minutes later you can give up and try Village Ice Cream in Vic Park. When you see the line is just as bad, spend 5 minutes driving to the Britannia location which will have no line.

The key to Village is to just go and buy a pint. You can bypass the line up. I haven't been to Marcus so do not know if this works there.

[Sliver]

Village Ice Cream lol. I'll never understand inner city people as long as I live. My friends that live inner city made us walk over there after dinner one night. They were talking it up the whole night as the main 'thing' we were going to be doing. Actually got me pretty excited for my mind to be blown.

So we walk there and the line is weirdly huge. I thought they'd abandon the mission but were acting pretty nonchalant and I didn't want to crap all over their plan so into the line we went. It took about half an hour to get our cones.

Believe me when I tell you this. There is absolutely nothing whatsoever that is special about the ice cream there. It's good in the way every good ice cream is good (versus cheap 'frozen dessert' fake ice cream or something) but in no way better than a good tub of actual ice cream from Safeway at 1/20th the cost and 1/100th the hassle.

The people enjoying it were just hipster inner city dorks/nerds. To suggest it as a destination in Calgary is insane. If you happened upon it and there was no line, yeah, get an ice cream there for sure. To make a special trip is bananas.

UCB, if you ever find yourself so bored in life and the only fun thing in all of Calgary you can come up with is to wait in line for a fataing ice cream cone, PM me and I'll give you a list of 300 things that are better. That is just the most brutal suggestion for a fun thing to do in Calgary that I can't even believe somebody typed that with a straight face.

[wontondestruction]

Since most of the posts involve food, I'll add an obvious one, Popeye's.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Has anyone said Proof? Because, Proof.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Simon96Taco

What part of town will you be moving to?

Near my work, Seton/Auburn Bay Area.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Village Ice Cream lol. I'll never understand inner city people as long as I live. My friends that live inner city made us walk over there after dinner one night. They were talking it up the whole night as the main 'thing' we were going to be doing. Actually got me pretty excited for my mind to be blown.

So we walk there and the line is weirdly huge. I thought they'd abandon the mission but were acting pretty nonchalant and I didn't want to crap all over their plan so into the line we went. It took about half an hour to get our cones.

Believe me when I tell you this. There is absolutely nothing whatsoever that is special about the ice cream there. It's good in the way every good ice cream is good (versus cheap 'frozen dessert' fake ice cream or something) but in no way better than a good tub of actual ice cream from Safeway at 1/20th the cost and 1/100th the hassle.

The people enjoying it were just hipster inner city dorks/nerds. To suggest it as a destination in Calgary is insane. If you happened upon it and there was no line, yeah, get an ice cream there for sure. To make a special trip is bananas.

UCB, if you ever find yourself so bored in life and the only fun thing in all of Calgary you can come up with is to wait in line for a fataing ice cream cone, PM me and I'll give you a list of 300 things that are better. That is just the most brutal suggestion for a fun thing to do in Calgary that I can't even believe somebody typed that with a straight face.

It is a little silly to wait in line for ice cream, but if you're out with friends, and it's a nice day, it's not a big deal. And like the poster above you said, just grab a pint and you'll be out of there in seconds. The fact that you can walk there is a bonus. Was your scooter in the shop?

They have flavours you definitely can't get at Safeway. As do Marcus and Scrollio. Try the cardamom, it's delicious.

I live in the inner city because I like walking and unique experiences. I don't see what's wrong with that.

[CMPunk]

If you put Village ice cream beside his lake and he could ride his scooter to it, it would become objectively better

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

It is a little silly to wait in line for ice cream, but if you're out with friends, and it's a nice day, it's not a big deal. And like the poster above you said, just grab a pint and you'll be out of there in seconds. The fact that you can walk there is a bonus. Was your scooter in the shop?

They have flavours you definitely can't get at Safeway. As do Marcus and Scrollio. Try the cardamom, it's delicious.

I live in the inner city because I like walking and unique experiences. I don't see what's wrong with that.

There's nothing unique about that experience. Walking around bums in the inner city to wait in line for an overpriced chunk of frozen sugar-milk is about as banal as life can get.

Cardamom, eh? Really hope you're trolling me and are not actually a real life guy that would polish off his latte while regailing the forum with tales of hipster ice cream flavours.

[DownInFlames]

Lattes? Get with it. Real hipsters are down with Kombucha and $15 cocktails these days.

Yeah, it sucks that there are homeless people, but they're free entertainment. I've never seen a guy in a sombrero stomping a bag of styrofoam cups in the burbs.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

Lattes? Get with it. Real hipsters are down with Kombucha and $15 cocktails these days.

Yeah, it sucks that there are homeless people, but they're free entertainment. I've never seen a guy in a sombrero stomping a bag of styrofoam cups in the burbs.

You got a few hundred bucks and a sombrero? Come on by, we can make this happen.

[SebC]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Cardamom, eh? Really hope you're trolling me and are not actually a real life guy that would polish off his latte while regailing the forum with tales of hipster ice cream flavours.

LOL... cardamom is not just for novelty. It's entirely believable that people actually like it. Do you even know what it tastes like?

[Cali Panthers Fan]

I've been ruined on ice cream ever since I tried Humphry Slocombe's in San Francisco. The Secret Breakfast (bourbon and cornflakes) is the pretty amazing, as is Jesus Juice (red wine and cola). But the Vietnamese Coffee is by far the best.

http://www.humphryslocombe.com/flavors/

I know, I know, this is about Calgary, but it jogged my tasty memory bank and I had to share.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I'll never understand inner city people as long as I live.

I submit to you Regrub. Pricing aside.

"You can't sit there"

"You can't stand there:

"We're out of that"

Serve 1 table every 8 minutes

Unseasoned blob of of greasy ground beef that can't even hold the basic form of a burger.

But they put a stale brownie on top of your watered down milk shake, and have a mustache drawn of the glass.



I hear allot of people bashing the suburban lifestyle, but on a nice day I really don't mind doing a bit of yardwork, making myself a great burger for $5 or $6, having a beer with the neighbor.

[GGG]

If you in Seton you can support the one non chain restaurant in the south.

Starbelly is pretty good by the new Hospital.

[CliffFletcher]

Probably the biggest change in the city, physically, is the development of St. Patrick's Island and Riverwalk. Definitely worth a stroll on a nice afternoon.

Oh, and Village's cardamon ice cream is tasty. But it's dumb to wait in line 20 minutes for it. Just go to the Britannia location.

[Leeman4Gilmour]

You're about to live in one of the biggest changes to the city. The amount of new city in the south still blows me away.

[_Q_]

Village ice cream is legitimately delicious. It's one of the places I miss about Calgary. The cardamom one is the best, but most of the other flavours are also good. If you can't wait 30 minutes at the downtown location, just hit up the Brittania or Marda Loop location.

And no, it's about as similar to Safeway Icecream as the Calgary Flames are to a Beer league division 8 team.

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Near my work, Seton/Auburn Bay Area.

They just opened a Canadian Brewhouse in Mahogany. Nothing too fancy, but if I were to design a pub, that's exactly how I would build it. TVs everywhere, good pub food and good beer selection. Can't go wrong.

Usually packed with people too, so good atmosphere.

If you are moving to Mahogany, the lake access and beach club is a nice luxury. Skating, swimming, fishing, walking, playgrounds, etc.

[OMG!WTF!]

You can probably rent a few floors of office space downtown for free. Start up a street hockey league. Or live there.

[DuffMan]

Chicken on the Way has some very nice chicken.