what's lunch got to do, got to do with it

jerk chicken roti
from: the reef
price: free! I got paid for photos in lunch
rating &&&&&/&&&&&
listening to: tina turner
comments: I took some photos of houses brian has been working on lately, and in turn, I got lunch. yay! click my lunch to see the house I was shooting. here's the other one.

and brian had:

quesadillas
comments: the food was darn good here. it always is. click to see brian dipping a plantain chip. dip. dip. dip.

bonus weekend lunch

pulled pork pancakes
from: the red wagon
price: $12?
rating: &&&&&/&&&&&
comments: I only seem to get to the red wagon on weekends. but the food there always makes me want to tell people about this place. it's delicious. right down to the saltspring island coffee. so good. now click to see a wiggly of the back of the building where the red wagon is.

and erin had:

some big spanish sounding word with pork belly
comments: erin's lunch was like nacho's with and egg on it, and some delicious pork belly. click to see her flying off a swing. also notice jenna hovering.

and jenna had:

pulled pork benny
comments: oh yeah, I also just got a new wide angle lens for my good camera. oh yeah. it's nice. it's fun. expect lotsa wide angle shots for the next while. until the novelty wears off. like the one of jenna's car linked from her lunch here.

you give lunch a bad name

capriciossa calzone (or something like that)
from: incendio
price: $16
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: bon jovi
comments: calzone friday. ever since incendio started giving $2 coupons with the bill, we haven't stopped going there. most fridays it seems to happen. other news, our office recently got some nerf guns. supposedly, hasbro sent them to us as a grateful customer. nice! click to see eric shooting me right in the camera.

and bill had:

veggie calzone
comments: the nerf guns are pretty awesome. especially the giant one that gavin brought in. click to see it in action against owly. look closely at the bullet belt. perfectly animated. want one more? you got it.. actually I made many variations of these. they're all in the flickr. good day.

would you believe in a lunch at first sight?

extra cha-shu shoyu ramen
from: menya
price: $8ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the beatles
comments: eric had to move his car, cuz the parking in our work area SUCKS. so we decided to move it all the way to menya for some ramen. yum. click to see a crazy wiggly of a garbage truck. look at it closely, there's some odd movement going on there.

and bill had:

ramen salad
comments: click bill's lunch to see him wearing an award that hootsuite won from mashable. yay us!

and eric had:

to text whilst eating
comments: thanks for the vehicular operations for us, eric! now click his lunch to see a creepy doll/puppet guy.

and gavin had:

cha-shu don
comments: click gavin's lunch to see some sciencey glass tubes from a window display. those fluorescent lights do weird things to photos.

bring your sweet luncheon, bring it on home to me

sandwich n soup
from: HAVE cafe
price: $7.78
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: eric burdon and the animals
comments: really good tomato soup. the creamiest. and this evening, I had the pleasure of seeing Toby performing in Hard Core Logo Live. it's running until february 6th, and it's pretty awesome. go see it. it's a big nod to the vancouver punk scene back in the day, and it's a concert and a play all in one. click to see a sneaky wiggly I made from my seat. you can even kinda see toby on the drum kit there.

and bill had:

pasta
comments: bill came to the show, too, and thoroughly enjoyed it as well. click his lunch to see him being awesome in oppenheimer park.

I would give you both night and day, lunch satisfying

former's scramble
from: deacon's corner
price: $12?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: bad company (feel like makin lunch was actually playing whilst eating today)
comments: deacon's tuesday. oh yeah. click my lunch to see a bunch of extras standing around waiting to film something. see the streetsign? 22? that's actually gore st! wee ow. such movie magic.

and paul had:

returned from thailand!
comments: paul has been away for almost a month? living it up in thailand. now he's back and gets to sit at a desk. click to see a guy in cuffs (cuffs, he can break those cuffs) in an Inception-esque wiggly.

and daniel had:

biscuits n sausage
comments: daniel had a catharsis whilst eating today. he doesn't really like breakfast-type meals. oh well. more for the rest of us. click to see an odd wiggly of what was hanging on a post at powell and dunlevy. oasis. ha. I won't post bill's lunch today cuz I ain't got enough wigglies.

do a little dance, make a little lunch, get down tonight

meat special
from: la casita
price: $12ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: kc and the sunshine band
comments: la casita for lunch today because I had to go to london drugs. my d7000 is back and repaired. yay. click to see the city as seen on my way home from work.

and bill had:

veggie special
comments: click bill's lunch to see the opsal steel building being deconstructed. I heard they're taking it apart, taking it somewhere else, restoring it, then bringing it back, and somehow including it within the new condos. cuz that's what this city always needs. more condos. take a last look

our lunch is rice and beans and horses lard

porchetta sandwich n soup
from: meat and bread
price: $13
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the pixies
comments: webct reunion type lunch today. don, viv and wayne. meat and bread makes good sandwiches. not cheap. but very good. click to see the big apple eric had this morning. it was huge. and it took a while for that little cop to arrest that criminal. click here to see the chase.

and wayne had:

the beef sandwich
comments: wayne was the only one who didn't eat the porchetta and soup. he seemed to enjoy it. I know I liked the beef one last time. click to see a $5 bill he was carrying.

and viv had:

same as me
comments: click vivian's lunch to see some of the decor at meat and bread. a little to high for punching, I think.

and don also had:

the porchetta
comments: finally, click don's lunch to see the bathroom doors at meat and bread. they are labeled 'meat' and 'bread'. which one would you use? only bread is wheelchair accessible. confusion.

I gotta know if your sweet lunch is gonna save me

4 cheese burger
from: 2 chefs and a table
price: $12ish?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the eagles. not for much longer though. skip.
comments: hadn't been to 2 chefs in a while. the burger and fries are still tasty. click to see what else I've been eating lately. yum.

and erin had:

chicken sandwich
comments: good news, everyone! erin's wallet was returned in the mail. cash gone, but everything else there. yay for her! click to see said wallet.

and bill had:

a veggie burger
comments: there's a new lunch place in the area. it's called big lou's butcher shop and deli. this is where david and eric ate today. look at bill's veggie burger. look for a while.... then click it to see the opposite. the exact opposite. that's what david had. looks like something, alright. $8, though. I don't think he was overly impressed with it. warning: objects in wigglies may appear larger then they are.

lunch haunts to the end

clubhouse
from: deacon's corner
price: $12?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: broken bells
comments: deacon's tuesday today, with 4 guests! travis, phil and dave made it down from navarik from lunch. good times. click to see a wiggly that's a little bit different than the usual. you'll see.

and travis had:

chilli cheese dawg
comments: this dog looked quite tasty. I may have to try it sometime. now click travis' lunch to see him hover while others bounce. it's like his slight foot movement generates enough lift to keep him levitating. crazy.

and phil had:

farmers scramble?
comments: click phil's lunch to see him hovering. stoicly. I think taking photos of people jumping at this corner is turning into a "thing". what you think?

and dave had:

the daily special (chicken salad)
comments: ok, time for one last jumping wiggly. this one has dave and bill in hover mode. travis and phil are all shifty.

and bill had:

veggie something
comments: click bill's lunch to see some award that hootsuite won. yay hootsuite.

so won't you lunch me tender

various buns
from: new town bakery (cambie chapter)
price: just right
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: superdeformed by matthew sweet
comments: these buns were delicious. but I had to mark them down, cuz they were cold by the time I got home with them. anyway. that's neither here nor there. click for a funny wiggly. pimp baby? is that what I'm looking at??

the lunch shack is a little old place

carnivore calzone
from: incendio
price: $16
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: the B52's
comments: whilst eating my calzone, I noticed the reflection of the fire in the pizza oven at incendio's. the angle of the reflection lined up perfectly with bruce lee. awesome. click to see that wiggly. here's a three framer of it.

and bill had:

veggie calzone
comments: click bill's lunch to see him derpin' it large. in other news, on the way to afternoon coffee we got an exciting show of a fool of a driver. this guy got a pylon stuck under his car. stopped twice to try and fix it. and ended up driving away with it stuck. hilarious. see it in a set of three wigglies: 1, 2, 3.

this modern lunch wastes me

the lamb
from: afro canadian
price: $12ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: bloc party
comments: got to meet Ed at afro today for lunch. according to my blog it'd been almost 4 years since we'd broken spongey bread at afro. and it's still just as good. click to see some interesting lamps we passed by on the way to lunch.

and ed and bill both had:

the taste of africa
comments: if we had jason at this lunch, it woulda been all the main veggie lunch guests from latv at one table. alas, jason and bill can't be in the same city... paradox somethingerother... click to see a grainy low light wiggly of main street I took on the way home.

your little lunch nest suits me well

bagelwich n chocolate milk
from: home
price: n/a
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: lovage
comments: I had miniweekend today since I worked on monday. time for bagelwich. it's been a while, my sesame covered friend. I didn't make any new wigglies for today. instead, click to see an old one that someone tumbld. now it's had over 22000 likes/reblogs. crazy.

well, I acted once right but naturally it wasn't hatching lunch

french toast
from: deacon's corner
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: modest mouse
comments: deacon's tuesday. this time with 4 of us. which meant I got to make them do something goofy for the camera. very low on the goofy scale, but it still looks awesome. click my lunch to see.

and bill had:

ketchup
comments: click bill's lunch to see a much smaller version of the first gif. just a two framer. not much different, but ther'es 4 lunches here to make gifs for... oh come on. gimme a break. (read that last bit in the voice of this guy. such an awesome voice.

and danm had:

the burger special
comments: on the way back from lunch, I saw this lexus that always reminds me of the streetfighter bonus level. so click dan's lunch to see him and bill beating it up. or... whatever it is they are doing

and david had:

farmer's scramble
comments: lastly, click david's lunch to see a wiggly of bender. I got this new light tent type thingy to help me take photos like this. this was just a test run. maybe I'll make amazing wigglies with it. maybe it will hide in a corner of my apartment. the future just cannot be known.

this bed is on fire, with passionate lunch

special #1
from: La Casita
price: $12.50
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: James
comments: working on a monday. odd feeling. is this what all you people do?? crazy. oh well, it'll all balance out. click my lunch to see a harris shutter wiggly out the window of the restaurant.

and bill had:

special #2
comments: if you haven't figured it out yet, la casita always has 2 specials. the first is always for omnivores, and the latter is for people from Vegeteria. this works well for lunching. the specials are usually the best deal here, and tasty, too. click to see some iciness that I shot last night. I guess it's cold out a bit.

well, it's lunch that I neeeeeed, oooh...

bordertown burger
from: LanaLou's
price: $12?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: sublime
comments: friday lunch at lanalous. bill had a craving for the deelish cinnaminny coffee. and it was good. perhaps I had too much coffee today. I like coffee, it makes me jittery. click my lunch to see an infrared wiggly of the city being a city.

and erin had:

the cheesesteak
comments: erin discovered that her fries tasted even better after sticking them in her sandwich. click to see a wiggly of bunny. aaaw, bunny.

and bill had:

the viola' splatter
comments: click bill's lunch to see a very odd sight, indeed. people always talk about when it's so hot you can fry eggs on the sidewalk, right? well, the mystery here is that it was about 2 degrees out.

and eric had:

his face in his food
comments: click eric's lunch to see a seawall wiggly. nothing special, but hey... free dummy.

webaba si lunch le maweni

taste of africa
from: afro canadian
price: about $10 each
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: paul simon and LSBM
comments: we met burbaget for lunch today! and for some reason, we all opted to go veg. the three of us shared this dish you see. tasty dishes, these veg ones. but it didn't really fill me up. oh well. click to see mika at the office. she's a good doggy. if you prefer, you can look at tony's beagle. cute.

if you lunch me, I'll make you a star in my universe

calzone
from: incendio
price: $16
rating: &&&.6/&&&&&
listening to: julia and angus stone
comments: erin joined us for lunch today. which was good and bad. bad because somehow she lost her wallet between the car and the door of the restaurant. we didn't notice until after lunch. I think it's long gone now. but if you see it, please return it! I also tried a different flavour of calzone. one with chicken. it wasn't nearly as good as the ones I usually try. it's like the day was just a bit off. I blame the crappy cold, wet weather.

and erin had:

a calzone too
comments: I'm not even gonna post bill's lunch today. that's how off things are. plus, I just don't have enough wigglies to link to. both wigglies today are from a window display at 3rd and main. this one is weird, cuz I kept getting the all green cycle of the fluorescent lights. that's all. maybe tomorrow will be better.

I'm gonna give you lunchin', baby, gonna move you out o' town.

burger special
from: deacon' corner
price: $12.50
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: Zep (actually dread zep, not led)
comments: back 2 work. back 2 reality. and on deacon's tuesday, nonetheless. the special was a burger with guac. the guac was very tasty. their burgers aren't that great, though. pre-fab patty. overall, satisfying. click to see a photo phil took of andy when they were at Alcatraz last week. I just dig the panorama across my monitors.

and bill had:

weggie wurger
comments: remember those kitties from yesterday's posts? well, you can click bill's lunch to see pixie again. adorable. wanna see her fierce look? check it out. oh yeah, I didn't mention it, but these kitties never warmed up to poor Hemi. this was as close as they got to him. even with delicious tuna sashimi being offered, pixie wouldn't get closer. and Hemi was quite the gentleman, not moving any closer.