Chefs Across the Water 2011

Hastings House Country House Hotel and Dining Room on Salt Spring Island is pleased to announce our guest chef program is returning for 2011—top BC chefs have been invited to prepare multiple-course dinners in the Hastings House kitchen, incorporating Salt Spring Island’s produce, seafood, and meats. Wine pairings featuring BC wines will be offered to…

TOJO AND FRIENDS FUNDRAISE FOR JAPAN

An Evening To Benefit The Canadian Red Cross Take a group of compassionate chefs and talented bartenders, add a splash or two of Canada’s top entertainers and it’s a special evening of fundraising on behalf of those affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan’s northern regions. Join Tojo-san as he brings together a culinary…

Gourmet & Grapes at Cabana in Kelowna

Cabana Bar & Grille hosts Round 3 of Gourmet & Grapes May 1, 2011 Get up close and personal with your favorite vintners and chefs, raise a glass on the fully-tented patio wine garden and grab a ringside seat for the IRON CHEF OKANAGAN THROWDOWN. Cabana’s own celebrity chef Ned Bell will go head-to-head with…

Chefs Across the Water at Hastings House – Various Dates

Hastings House Country House Hotel and Dining Room on Salt Spring Island is excited to introduce our new guest chef program—Chefs Across the Water. Designed to build connections among British Columbia’s fine dining establishments and to highlight the incredible bounty of the region’s produce, Chefs Across the Water invites distinguished BC chefs to participate in…

Pino selected to join Distinguished Restaurants of North America Hall of Fame

Pino Posteraro, Executive Chef/Proprietor of Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill & Enoteca in Yaletown, has been selected to join the Distinguished Restaurants of North America (DiRoNA) Hall of Fame. He becomes the first Vancouver restaurateur, and only the third in Canada (after Jacques Landurie of Les Halles, Montreal, and John Arena of Winston’s, Toronto) to be so…

Gold Medal Plates 2009

On Friday, October 23, Chefs and Olympians gathered, and the Chef’s competed to win the Gold Medal Plates.  Cactus Club’s Rob Feenie took Gold, Lumiere’s Dale McKay the Silver and Cioppino’s Pino Posteraro Bronze.  National winners will compete on November 27 and 28 in Vancouver, the home of the 2008 Gold Medal Plate winner, Blue Water’s…

Mission Hill Family Estate to host BC’s Premier Celebrity Chefs

Okanagan Book Launch & Charity Dinner: Chefs’ Table Society, Vancouver Cooks 2 Forget what you’ve heard about too many cooks in the kitchen, Mission Hill Family Estate will host the official launch of the Chefs’ Table Society of British Columbia cookbook, Vancouver Cooks 2, with an exclusive reception and five-course dinner, October 9. Sharing the…