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HAPPY & OLIVE
Open a restaurant in a time when about the worst thing you can do is open a restaurant? Check. When so many restaurants are closing for lunch and reducing their hours, why not offer morning coffee, a lunch menu, dinner service and a weekend brunch? Check, check and check. Happy and Olive is a bright spot, the kind of place to sit down for coffee
with a friend, then come back for a date-night dinner. But, really, this is a rebel story — because restaurant veterans Frank and Andrea Olson, and Ann and Dave Jackson’s vision is to go against all the negative trends we’re seeing in the restaurant business.
Brunch is stellar (for more on that, flip a few pages), and the lunch and dinner menus offer a tour of the world, from a latke menu to Pepper Crusted Black Cod to Moroccan Lamb Rack Chops served with a feta, ricotta and carrot tart.
We know the Olsons from the Red Ox Inn and Canteen, and the Jacksons owned the Wired Cup coffee shop in Strathearn. They’ve taken the best of both the cafe and the casual- fine-dining worlds, and transformed it into a community hub. Not bad for place that isn’t even a year old, yet. —STEVEN SANDOR
● 9640 142 ST. NW
● 825-401-4958
● HAPPYANDOLIVE.CA
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