Last minute Gifts you can grab with your morning Latte

Looking for a great gift this holiday season?  Starbucks is the perfect and convenient destination to find gifts for anyone and everyone on your shopping list. From gifts for the kitchen, a special gift from a land far away, gifts for fun, gifts under $10 and gifts for a sweet tooth – Starbucks is the…

Wild BC Seafood Fest – salmon, sablefish and sardines

Saturday, August 29th, 2009 The second annual Wild BC Seafood Fest will take place on Saturday, August 29th between 11:00 am and 4:00 pm at the Steveston Harbour Authority Fisherman’s Park (in front of the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site • 12138 Fourth Avenue) in the fishing community of Steveston, Richmond, BC.  This…

The Fuel Newsletter “Food for Thought!”

FROM FUEL: We wanted to keep in touch with you, our guests & colleagues, without inundating you with email so we decided to put together a newsletter, “Food for Thought”. Here we will share with you upcoming events, recent experiences, recipes & exciting news. We hope you enjoy hearing from us from time to time….

Liberty Wine’s Champagne & Caviar

This July, Liberty Merchant Company is happy to host our 14th annual Champagne & Caviar tasting, as part of our much anticipated ‘Tastings-in-the-Park’ series. Join us for a delightful evening of bubbly and caviar canapés at Vancouver’s most beautiful tasting venue. All proceeds to benefit amateur sport at the Vancouver Rowing Club. Come out and…

Outstanding in the Field returns to British Columbia for feasts at the farm

July dinners planned at UBC Farm in Vancouver and North Arm Farm in Pemberton Valley near Whistler Outstanding in the Field, a group of culinary vagabonds who stage white-tablecloth dinners in farm fields across North America, is coming once again to Vancouver’s UBC Farm. The group also will visit the Whistler area for a dinner…

Wild BC SOCKEYE SALMON is Coming Soon … so ask for it by name!

To the delight of all salmon lovers, the first fresh sockeye salmon of the season is coming soon! In fact, the first commercial sockeye fishery is scheduled to open on Tuesday, June 16th just north of Prince Rupert, BC as part of the Nass River run providing consumers with some of the best salmon around…

Maenam – Now open on Fourth

Chef Angus An recently closed  Gastropod so he could begin a new project, an authentic Thai restaurant named Maenam.  The food here is the real thing.  Sauces and seasonings have been tested and restested until they reached that perfect balance of salty, sweet and spicy.  The wine list complements the food, while touring about the…