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February 1 – 29, 2012 Executive Chef Frank Pabst’s eighth annual Unsung Heroes Festival takes pride of place at Vancouver’s multiple award-winning Blue Water Cafe throughout the month of February. Chef Pabst, who has won many culinary distinctions, has long been a champion of the sustainable fisheries movement. He created the Unsung Heroes Festival specifically [...]

Foodie Fridays November 18, 2011 -  Click to listen Listen live on News 1130 AM Friday’s 11:05 am (November 18 – 11:35 am). Published originally in Daily XY The Pacific Northwest is renowned for its oysters, but the recipe for a good oyster bar requires much more than just a fresh, meaty, brackish bivalve, and includes [...]

Join Mission Hill Family Estate Winery Chef Matthew Batey, and guest Chefs Frank Pabst and Todd Howard from acclaimed Vancouver restaurants — Blue Water Cafe and CinCin Ristorante — for the epicurean highlight of the Okanagan Spring Wine Festival. Set in the elegant Chagall Room at Mission Hill, the Chefs will present an exclusive multi-course [...]

In British Columbia’s culinary industry, nothing salutes the advent of spring quite like the annual Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards. Unique in Canada, and now in its 22nd year, the awards were convened on Tuesday, April 12th at the Sheraton Wall Centre. A panel of 19 judges acknowledged industry excellence as Araxi, Blue Water Cafe, CinCin [...]

Top Table Restaurants Top Wine Festival Awards West Restaurant wine director Owen Knowlton was named the “2011 Sommelier of the Year” today at the 8th Annual Awards Lunch convened during the 33rd annual Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival. Part of West’s management team since 2005, Owen has worked to build the restaurant’s diverse cellar that [...]