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Frannies RIP

July 22nd, 2011 by Randy 0

March 31 was the last day of business for arguably the best little sandwich place around. Frannie’s Gourmet Deli made amazing, cheap food forĀ  25 years, I believe, all created by the same duo that had been there from the beginning, Helen and Kee.

I remember going into Frannie’s at the end of February, for my semi-usual early-morning breakfast fix, along with two or three other regulars, plus a steady stream of construction workers (yes, they were still around, building the…

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Frannies

January 22nd, 2010 by Randy 0

Mint Records has been in the Hastings and Cambie neighbourhood for years and years, well, since 1993, if not earlier. And we’ve borne witness to the restaurant space in the basement of the Dominion Building seemingly continuously rotate with tenants, from Jackson’s Beef House to Route 66 to The Victory to The Mouse & Bean to its newest incarnation, Nuba.

Next door to the Dominion Building, on the ground floor, facing Cambie Street, upstairs from where an early version of Scratch…

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