Thanksgiving Around Vancouver

What’s Up In Vancouver For Thanksgiving Celebrations We couldn’t let our favourite time of year go by without a couple of recommendations for y’all. What to do for Vancouver Thanksgiving? Suggests include Five Sails, Joe Fortes, H Tasting Lounge, Nightingale and more. Celebrate Thanksgiving Dinner this year at Dockside Restaurant Enjoy delicious turkey and fixings…

Brunch at Joe Fortes

It is Joe’s Eggstravaganza $9.95 breakfasts LAST WEEKEND! We headed to Fortes for breakfast last weekend to sample the $9.95 menu. A complete deal and CGLV (Chef Good Life Vancouver) ordered the Chorizo Hash and loved it! The first things the servers show up with are sparkling wine and OJ. They’d love to pour you a…

Local restaurant to raise holiday spirits for mothers and children

Joe Fortes serves up a Christmas feast at the Vancouver Native Health Society More than 150 mothers and children from the Downtown Eastside will enjoy a special holiday meal prepared by Joe Fortes Seafood & Chop House at the Vancouver Native Health Society (VNHS) on Wednesday, December 8, 2010 from 1:30 p.m. onward. Guests will…

News from Goldfish Pacific Kitchen

PARTY LIKE A ROCK COD It seems as though we might be getting a bit of a reputation as a place to be on New Year’s Eve. A reputation we’re only too happy to reinforce. Join us New Year’s Eve for a three-course meal, DJ Dom and the Candy Girl Cabaret – singing and dancing…

Joe Fortes turns 25!

We are turning 25 this year. If we were a car, we’d officially be a classic. It so happens that 1985, the year we got started, was also the 100th anniversary of the arrival of Joe Fortes (the man) in Vancouver. Coincidence? We think not. Joe, the legendary English bay lifeguard, was named the city’s…

News from Joe Fortes

LONGER, BIGGER, WARMER During the 2010 Olympic Games, we’ll be open LONGER, with extended hours starting Feb 12th: 10 a.m. to 1a.m. Sunday to Thursday; Friday and Saturday to 2 a.m. and with late night dining every night. We have BIGGER large screen TV’s on the roof (renamed Joe’s Sports Garden), so get there early…

News from Joe Fortes

PR NEWS JOE FORTES TO THE RESCUE Phew, that was close. When Tourism Vancouver pushed its annual Dine Out Vancouver to April because of the Olympics, we moved fast to come up with our own version to keep your taste budgets smiling through January, the month that never ends. We call it Dine Out Joe…