Restaurants include:

• Moxies
• Montanas
• Boston Pizza
• Earls
• Sushi Miso
• Bee Natural
• Pho Dao
• Roscos

Fast Food restaurants include:

• Taco Time
• Dairy Queen
• McDonalds
• Mary Browns
• A&W
• Burger King
• KFC
• Booster Juice
• Subway

Other businesses include:

• Medicine Hat Mall
• Sportsmart
• Safeway
• Shoppers Drug Mart
• Zellers
• The Bay
• Sears
• Medicine Hat News & TriCube Media

Hotels include:

• The Medicine Hat Lodge
• Comfort Inn

Gas Stations include:

• Fas Gas
• Shell
• Canadian Tire Gas Station
• Safeway Gas Station
• Petro-Canada

The south end of Dunmore Road connects with Strachan Road, which you can find stores and grocery stores such as:

• Sobeys
• Staples
• Walmart
• Canadian Tire
• Marks Work Warehouse
• Ashley Furniture
• Pet Smart
• Home Depot

The north end of Dunmore Road connects with Kingsway Road and South Railway, which is an industrial area including many businesses, such as:

• Memory Lane Computers
• Community Employment Services
• Lavar Payne

There are, as well, many more businesses and restaurants both in the mall and the many strip malls both along Dunmore Road and the roads adjacent to it. View our post on Kingsway Ave and South Railway Street here.

1. Pho Dao Vietnamese Noodle House

Pho Dao is a very fresh and very fast Vietnamese-style restaurant. It’s not your typical Americanized Chinese restaurant, the food here seems very authentic, or at least different from some of the other restaurants in the city. It’s also very fast, sometimes me and my girlfriend get our food within minutes, way faster than any fast food place. The dishes consist of many different types of noodles with different combinations. Other traditional dishes are also available and combo meals, consisting of rice, pork, chicken, shrimp, vegetables and other things. Their spring/meat rolls are some of the most tastiest I’ve ever had. My favourite pick from Pho Dao is Combo #4: Steamed vegetables, rice, charbroiled pork & chicken, wonton soup and spring rolls.

Pho Dao - Spring Rolls

2. Thai Orchid Room

Thai Orchid Room is a very nice place to eat and could definitely be considered fine dinning. They have many beautiful dishes most of which are on the pricier side but it’s definitely worth it. The food is truly an authentic Thai experience with a very large menu consisting of curries, stir-frys, vegetable dishes, noodles, rice, soups and salads. My girlfriend loves it because of all the different curry meals you can get (one of the only places in town for good curry), but I love some of the other stir-fry meals as well. They are definately a little different than what you are used to, especially if you get some of the hotter (spicy) dishes.

Thai Orchid Rom - Green Curry Pork

3. Dublin’s Pub

This is a listing you might find strange for one of these lists, with Dublin’s being a pub and all. Dublin’s Pub definitely has a different take on pub-style food. Most all dishes are Irish themed and feature some more traditionally Irish or European meals such as Shepherds’ Pie and Poor Boy. There’s still all your pub favourites though and my favourite meal would have to be the Danny’s Devil Burger which is a homemade-style hamburger (they prepare it from scratch) with bacon, cheese, and a BBQ sauce with spuds (their name for wedges) on the side. They have beer from all over the world, but unfortunately no Guiness on tap as one of my friends clearly pointed out.

4. Jungle Cafe

Jungle Cafe really takes buffet to a whole new, tasty level. Even though it’s on the expensive side, I think I always get my dollars worth just from the amount of food and deserts I eat. If you dine here (for the buffet), definitely bring your appetite. The great part about the buffet is it’s always changing and the different meats and dishes are quite diverse and always have a high quality. One day they could be serving honey glazed chicken breast in of the the dishes, the next they could be serving pasta and cheese dishes. There’s always a lot of variety too. If you don’t like one, there will always be lots of options – and if all else fails there’s plenty of (healthy) sides like steamed vegetables, rice, soups, fruits and a whole table of deserts including any type of pie/cake you can think of.

Jungle Cafe - Buffet

5. Samir’s Donair

I have only eaten here half a dozen times, but every once and awhile I get a craving. The options here might be a little weak, but they make up for the smaller menu with being truly authentic mediterranean food including, donairs (ofcourse), baklava, falafel and a variety of salads. There’s tons of different options for your dishes as well as sauces including sweet donair sauce, tzatzik sauce, chili sauce, hot sauce, death sauce, humus and more. The prices are very decent as well, and for people doing parties, or just people with big appetities there’s some pretty big sizes that you can get (Jumbo & T-Rex).

Samir's Donair - Beef Donair with Sweet Sauce

These are just my favourites – obviously I tried to source out some of the more localized places rather than featuring chain restaurants like McDonalds (I have an unholy passion for McNuggets). Now with “eating healthier” mentality for 2009, I am not sure what next year’s list will be like – maybe Sean can cover that one.