MARKET at Shangri-La Hotel Brunch

Every second Sunday from May 19- September 22nd MARKET BY JEAN-GEORGES at the Shangri-La Hotel Vancouver hosts a farmers market along with an exceptionally local and farmer-driven brunch featuring ingredients from the market.  At the market you’ll find baked goods, greens, fruit spreads and olive oil, and if you are lucky Erin Ireland’s amazing It’s…

Regional Food and Wine Pairing: British Columbia

Create delicious fare featuring locally sourced BC ingredients. Discover which BC wines are best paired with gourmet treats such as Qualicum Bay shrimp salad, BC cowboy barbecued short ribs with thyme-glazed corn on the cob, pan-seared Fraser Valley duck breast with ambrosia apple sauce, and brown butter raspberry tartlet. Turn your next meal at home…

News 1130 Foodie Fridays June 28, 2013

Khatsahlano Arts and Music Festival I’ve been visiting restaurants on Vancouver’s 4th Avenue to find out what they will be doing for the upcoming July 13 Khatshalano Festival and found a few new ones I worth checking out.  Tractor Healthy Everyday Foods has opened at 1903 West 4th and serves a range of fresh and…

Culprit Coffee

Tucked just around the corner of 4th Avenue at Vine in Kitsilano is a gorgeous little coffee shop with espresso from Fernwood Coffee, delicious freshly baked goodies from Little Nest and The Gluten Free Epicurean and home made soups, salads and sandwiches.  100% independent and 100% friendly this little spot has just started offering Banh Mi, a…

WE Coffee Roasters DRINK OFF

Coffee lovers!  Head to WE Coffee Roasters at 1696 Robson Street for a DRINK OFF event on Saturday June 29 From Noon – 4 pm stop in to test your WE Coffee tasting skills guess which coffee is WE! There are prices for all participants and all get to be entered into a grand prize draw, to…

Tasting Plates North Van Edition in Lower Lonsdale area

Tasting Plates North Van July 23, starting at 6:00pm Prepare to experience the latest in the Tasting Plates tour as we venture outside of Vancouver for the first time. Join us as we explore the Lower Lonsdale neighborhood in North Vancouver. The participating restaurants in this event are all favourites of Richard Wolak (aka @vanfoodster) and guests…

Las Margaritas

Kitsilano’s Las Margaritas is one of the oldest restaurants in the area.  Home to food that is a combo of Mexican and Californian influence, it is a fun spot with lots of different tequilas, in fact the biggest collection we know of in British Columbia.  I’d go ahead and customize your margarita with an upgrade….

Indian Festival Opening Gala, with Vikram Vij

A culinary tour of South Asian cuisine curated by Vikram Vij Thursday, July 4 @ 7:30pm WHERE Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden • 578 Carrall St, Vancouver Celebrate the first day of Indian Summer with festival artists, patrons and special guests. Vancouver’s gastronomic guru Vikram Vij curates a culinary tour of South Asia featuring multiple…

Joy of Feeding 2013

3rd Annual Joy of Feeding Date: June 30th, 2013 Time: 1-4pm Location: UBC Farm Cost:  Tickets are $50 and include a recipe book with each cook’s story and family recipe. Children 13 and under are free with their parent or guardian’s ticket purchase. Join us at the UBC Farm to celebrate and enjoy comfort foods cooked from the heart. Sixteen home cooks…

CONTEST CLOSED #Giveaway #Win $85 Gift Cert for White Spot 85th Anniversary Menu

CONGRATS TO DILARA! White Spot is celebrating their 85th Anniversary by bringing back some all-time favs until July 13, 2013. Try the delicious Chicken Pick’ns, the Meatloaf Dinner, original BBQ Chicken Sandwich and Triple Triple three-patty burger. Finish your meal off with Bumbleberry Pie or the Nat Bailey ‘Adult’ Shake with Bailey’s and Amaretto. To win: 1) Leave a comment on this post naming your…

White Spot 85th Anniversary Menu

White Spot is celebrating their 85th Anniversary by bringing back some all-time favs until July 13, 2013. The classic recipes date back to when Nat Bailey, their founder started it all.  Head to any location to try the delicious Chicken Pick’ns from its first location on Granville Street in Vancouver the Meatloaf Dinner, original BBQ Chicken Sandwich and Triple Triple three-patty burger. Finish your meal…

Le Tigre Cuisine

Chefs Steve Kuan and Clement Chan are behind the magic at Le Tigre Food Truck, an innovative Asian dining concept that travels the streets of Vancouver.  They serve up dishes such as the incredibly tasty Kick Ass Rice, a dish of fried rice with sake, dashi, poached egg and a choice of braised pork belly of…

Cayman Island Cookout 2013

Published in Vancouver Island Style Magazine: For those who take culinary travel seriously, the annual Cayman Island Cookout is a weekend that you will want to add to the top of your bucket list. Held each January and hosted by Chef Eric Ripert at the Ritz Carlton Grand Cayman, the hotel where his restaurant Blue is located, this series of…

Chili Tank Food Truck

The meaty aromas coming from a strange looking tank-like fixture at the Winter Farmers Market is what first attracted me to the Chili Tank, but vegetarians fear not, there’s a veggie version too.   The tank is an actual military soup kitchen that was found in Germany and shipped to  Canada and can be heated…

CONTEST CLOSED #giveaway #Contest #win 2 tickets to Undercover

Congrats to @StreeStyleStef June 27- The Shooting Stars Foundation Presents the 9th annual “Undercover”  An investigative wine tasting targeting wine with the most “bang for your buck” To WIN: 1) Leave a comment on this post naming your favourite wine variety 2) Follow @goodlifevan on Twitter 3) Post the following to Twitter:  RT AND comment on 2 ticket…

Terra Breads

I have a friend, a food writer and editor, who comes to Vancouver, struts to Granville Island at what seems to me as the crack of dawn to wait, and not so patiently, for the white chocolate blueberry bread from Terra Breads.  I myself covet the veggie sandwich and the Foccacia and, truth be told,…

A Stones Throw -Thursday, June 27 at Campagnolo ROMA

Parallel 49 Brewing Company is located “a stones throw” away from Campagnolo ROMA in the rapidly emerging brewery district of Vancouver’s East Village. We have partnered up to present a collaboration diner honouring craft beer. On Thursday, June 27th at 8:30PM, diners will gather around communal tables at ROMA and share in a 4-course dinner…

26th Annual Canadian Festival of Chili and Barbeque

Langley will be smoking hot again this year when the 26th annual Canadian Festival of Chili and Barbeque comes Back To the Cascades Casino on June 22 – 23 2013 THIS WILL BE THE LARGEST BBQ CONTEST IN WESTERN CANADA WITH OVER $15,000 IN CASH AND PRIZES TO GIVE AWAY HOW CAN YOU BEAT THAT…

Aussie Pie Guy

This week Vancouver got a little more thunder from down under with the arrival of The Aussie Pie Guy food truck,  currently in front of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in the 600 block of Hamilton Street near Georgia.  The truck has sweet and savoury individual pies such as the Veggie Pie with potato, eggplant, zucchini,…