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Farrow

Sandwiches with a cult following.

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Quick Eats
Downtown
Strathcona/Whyte Ave
Wîhkwêntôwin
Ritchie

Ferns School Of Craft

Fern's School of Craft offers a variety of workshops in traditional fibre crafts like weaving, rug hooking, macrame, and rug braiding.

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Art
Things To Do
Ritchie
Southside
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Graffiti Bridge Wildlife Underpass

This wildlife underpass under the Anthony Henday has a double life as a graffiti gallery. Also known as the Whitemud Creek Arch, it can be an adventure to find it, but it is a quick walk from the paved path near Mullen Crescent in Mactaggart (use this map to help). If you're lucky you might even see a coyote in your travels, how rad is that!

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Art
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Walks
Southside

Gravity Pope

The iconic Edmonton shoe and clothing stores that have brought carefully chosen style to the city for decades.

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Shopping
Strathcona/Whyte Ave

Grindstone Theatre

Just south of Whyte Ave, the Grindstone Theatre hosts sketch comedy, improv nights, offers improv classes and has a fun bar with an outdoor patio.

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Bars
Things To Do
Strathcona/Whyte Ave

Happy Beer Street

Happy Beer Street is a collection of almost a dozen Edmonton indie craft breweries all within blocks of each other. Don't have too much fun, ok?

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Bars
Quick Eats
Ritchie

High Dough

Edmonton’s pizza game is tight, and High Dough is a top contender if you like your pizza deep dish.

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Quick Eats
Ritchie

Holowach Tree

Edmonton’s oldest chestnut tree is stuffed into a tiny parklet in a downtown alley with a small sign and fence around it. What a hidden delight.

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Parks
Downtown

Iconoclast Coffee Roasters

A cozy coffee shop with great burgers, brunch, and neighbourhood vibes in the Oliver Exchange building in Wîhkwêntôwin.

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Quick Eats
Coffee Shops
Wîhkwêntôwin

Indigenous Art Park ᐄᓃᐤ(ÎNÎW) River Lot 11∞

Six giant works by Canadian Indigenous artists dot the side of the river valley.

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Parks
Art
Architecture
Strathcona/Whyte Ave