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Anastasia Rioux

Anastasia Rioux

Anastasia Rioux is a writer in Greater Sudbury.

Recent Work by Anastasia

Let’s eat! New Sudbury parlour offers ice cream with a twist (a swirl actually)

Let’s eat! New Sudbury parlour offers ice cream with a twist (a swirl actually)

Vishwa and Sahil Patel missed the cool sweet treats they could get in Gujarat, India, so the Sudbury couple opened Sweet Swirls to bring those treats to the Nickel City
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Let’s eat! Because sweet treats are so much better than accounting

Let’s eat! Because sweet treats are so much better than accounting

Stephanie Lavoie gave up life as an accountant to do what she truly loves: crafting delicious and gorgeous treats at her home-business, The Apothebakery in Hanmer
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Let’s eat! Nikki’s brings Caribbean flavours to the downtown core

Let’s eat! Nikki’s brings Caribbean flavours to the downtown core

Check out Nikki's Jamaican Kitchen opening on Larch Street this week
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Let’s eat! Billy Bakes Bread and he does it really well

Let’s eat! Billy Bakes Bread and he does it really well

Tired of forming concrete, Billy Burbidge started forming dough and his tasty and artistic sourdough creations helped launch a whole new career
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Let’s eat! Hot diggity dawgs pair well with local suds at 46 North

Let’s eat! Hot diggity dawgs pair well with local suds at 46 North

Try the Inferno, the Coney Island, the Euro and more, and combine it with local craft beers at the Kelly Lake Road brewery
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Let’s eat! Butter chicken, tacos and more at the Fly Sudbury Café

Let’s eat! Butter chicken, tacos and more at the Fly Sudbury Café

Owners Ranjodh Singh and Lakhvir Singh Maan have an eclectic menu to offer hungry travellers (or anyone else really) at Greater Sudbury Airport
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Let’s eat! The Cake Guy steps up for heart health

Let’s eat! The Cake Guy steps up for heart health

Michael ‘The Cake Guy’ Sauvé is selling delicious cupcakes until the end of February to raise funds for new echocardiogram machines at Health Sciences North
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Let’s eat! A quest to find a replacement for Cherry Blossoms

Let’s eat! A quest to find a replacement for Cherry Blossoms

Introduced in the 1890s, the chocolatey maraschino confection was discontinued in 2025, prompting lovers of the treat — like our food writer Anastasia Rioux — to begin a furious hunt to find alternatives
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Let’s eat! Laurentian psych prof’s Khoja cookbook earns nomination

Let’s eat! Laurentian psych prof’s Khoja cookbook earns nomination

Dr. Reeshma Haji is a psychology professor by day and a foodie and world traveler in her off-time. Her fusion cookbook inspired by her Khoja heritage picks up international cookbook nomination
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Let’s eat! Sudbury has had its own Trevi for more than 40 years

Let’s eat! Sudbury has had its own Trevi for more than 40 years

Named for the landmark in Rome, the Trevi Bar and Grill has been keeping people fed with homemade food for four decades and counting
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