EAT! Vancouver Q + A With Chef Shelome Bouvette of Chicha

Chef Shelome Bouvette – Chicha Restaurant As one of the EAT! Vancouver Ambassadors, we’re catching up with the chefs at this culinary festival and here’s our check in with Shelome Bouvette from Chicha Restaurant!  EAT! Vancouver takes place from November 4 to 9, 2019  and features culinary collaborations between award-winning local and special guest chefs…

What’s Good This Week August 12 Edition

Things Happening in and Around Vancouver This Week It’s mid-August already? Where has the summer gone? I’m determined to take full advantage of the last few weeks of the season, even if I look outside and see rain today. This week it’s all about girl power as Les Dame d’Escoffier are hosting our annual fundraiser…

What’s Good This Week May 28

Vancouver To Do’s For The Last Days Of May Good god it’s almost June! There’s sunshine in the weather forecast and lots to do this week. What are your plans for the summer? It’s going to be a great one! While your thinking on that, here’s a few musts for this week should you have…

Dine Out Vancouver Continues til February 5th

Dine Out Vancouver Offers 3-course Menu Deals Dine Out Vancouver has one week left and while we wish we had more evenings free for dining out, we did get to a few and have a couple photos and recommendations to share. Chicha Chalaco Ceviche- albacore tuna, sockeye salmon, pacific ling cod, scallops, prawns, green tigre…

​​Chicha Restaurant Peruvian Nikkei Collaboration Dinner Menu

Chicha Restaurant Celebrates with a Peruvian Nikkei Collaboration As part of Vancouver international tequila expo, Chicha Restaurant hosted an exceptional dinner collaboration with Chef Benjamin Berwick of  Stage Wine Bar and Chicha Restaurant’s Chef Shelome Bouvette. Empanadas and Fully Loaded Mussels! Spot Prawn ceviche (spot prawns, sea asparagus, avocado,dashi, agua chile) with  Azunia Platinum Blanco Tequila Snapper Tiradito (snapper, leche…

What’s Good This Week March 29+

Now that the Easter eggs have been found and you’ve eaten your fair share of turkey or ham, it’s time to turn your thoughts to what is up for this week. Experience Taste Washington There’s still time to book a trip down to Seattle and hit up Taste Washington as it’s this coming weekend! It’s all…

Golden Dumpling Cook Off and Derby August 12!

Bao Bei Chinese Brasserie and Here There present Vancouver’s Golden Dumpling Cook Off! The Cookoff returns August 9th! Refreshments are by Red Truck Brewery, restaurants will plate fresh takes on the filling-and-wrapper format. An expert panel of judges will taste their way through entries from 17 restaurants battling to fill, wrap, steam and fry their way…

Chicha – Aprons For Gloves Fundraiser for Allison

TONIGHT! Monday June 23rd Allison’s Aprons for Gloves karaoke fundraiser at Chicha! $4 beer starts at 6pm and karaoke starts at 8pm Food, Drinks, Karaoke and more!Come sing your heart out for a good cause. Can’t make it? Support here! More Aprons for Gloves Info!    

On View The Vibe – Chicha

Other media – Chicha on View the Vibe. While Vancouver has finally made some progress in the Mexican food department, the Latin food scene had tended to drag well behind. Enter Chicha Restaurant to tempt our taste buds by serving up all things Peruvian. Chicha is named after the beverage Chicha Morado, a drink made from purple corn, spices, pineapple,…

Vancouver Farmers Market Ripe – Dinner Fundraiser

Save the date! On Sunday October 20th, 2013, the Vancouver Farmers Markets will present our annual dinner fundraiser RIPE, at the Exhibition Hall of the Roundhouse Community Centre. A family style feast of market food, RIPE is a harvest celebration of our farms and producers, and a feature event of the 5th Annual Sustenance Festival….

Foodie Fridays May 31, 2013

foodie Friday May 31 – listen here Latin American food in Vancouver just far more exciting with the opening of Chicha at 136 East Broadway. Chicha is brought to us by chefs Shelome Bouvette Allison Flook, previously of Davie Street’s Lolita’s and partner Kumiko Umeno. Bouvette and Flook are  freshly back from touring Peru ensuring the…