What’s Good This Week June 20 Edition

What To Do In And Around Vancouver This Week It’s the first day of summer and I’m feeling rather out of sorts for some reason. It’s actually the kind of weather I like today, so that can’t be it, although I know a lot of my friends would be happier with a little more sunshine….

What’s Good This Week in Vancouver May 23 Edition

Events In And Around Vancouver Hope y’all had a great long weekend if you got one. Michael worked all weekend sadly, as did I, so we stayed in Vancouver, but I did get out for an 8 km run through Shaughnessy on Sunday, took some strolls along West 4th and West Broadway and checked out…

Gin-A-Polooza

Vancouver Hosts Canada’s Premier Citywide Gin Celebration From AUG  12th– 26th  Do you love gin? YVR hosts the summer edition of Gin-A-Palooza – Canada’s first-ever, citywide Gincentric Celebration! For two weeks, Vancouverites have the opportunity to navigate the city’s streets visiting participating venues. Please your palates with 30 signature ginspired cocktails; learn fact from fiction about this classic spirit; and,…

Ribfest Canada Day

Five of the city’s top amateur grill masters to get raked over the coals on Canada Day  RibFest began in 2009 at an East Van backyard BBQ hosted by restaurant industry wine buyer Jeff Curry. Since then, RibFest has been a battlefield where the city’s most ambitious amateur BBQ masters from restaurants across the city…

Mamie Taylor’s goes South by Southwest

New brunch menu makes a run for the border The sun may rise in the east, but Mamie Taylor’s is looking west — Southwest, that is. At the vanguard of Chinatown’s culinary renaissance, Mamie Taylor’s was the first to bring the delicacies of the Deep South to Vancouver’s brunch lovers. Now, the regional American restaurant is setting…

Where to Ring in 2014 – Vancouver

Now that we’ve almost got Christmas out of the way, it is time to think about New Year’s Eve plans.  While I have spent the last few years at home (don’t worry not ALONE) there’s a few spots that are VERY tempting and I may just hit the town this year (WATCH OUT).  Here’s a…

Not So Fast and Mamie Taylor’s Serve Pierogies for Charity

What better excuse to get out and try a new restaurant if you haven’t stopped by this place already than this tasty fundraising venture. From December 1-14 Mamie Taylor’s  restaurant has teamed up with not-for-profit Not So Fast and will serve an stellar  Pierogi dish with profits benefiting the “Inside The Box” Friday food program at the Strathcona…