Luxury & Supercar Weekend Returns

Automotive design, yachts, fall fashion, jewelry, music, gourmet food, fine wine and premium spirits at the Supercar Weekend at VanDusen.  Luxury & Supercar Weekend rolls into Vancouver on September 12 and 13 to stage rare classics and modern supercars to urban Vancouverites and automotive fanatics around the world.  In its 6th year, Canada’s finest luxury event…

Long Table Distillery Gin In The Garden – Van Dusen Gardens

Next up on August 15! 1-5pm, Long Table Distillery is partnering with VanDusen Botanical Garden to create drinks that combine fresh picked botanicals found in their vast collection of plantings – All to compliment the gin. The result is a cocktail experience of remarkable taste and botanical diversity, served in one of Vancouver’s most acclaimed garden settings. Cocktails…

Garden Party and Croquet Classic at the VanDusen Botanical Gardens

Grab Your Mallets and Get Ready for the First Annual Garden Party and Croquet Classic Summer is here and the time is ripe for cocktails, champagne, tea and croquet. On Saturday, August 23, Cocktails & Canapes and Max Cunningham will be producing the first annual Garden Party and Croquet Classic at the VanDusen Botanical Gardens…

EPIC: The Sustainable Living Festival Shifts Gears to Summer – with an EPIC Lineup of Food, Drinks, Music and Marketplace Goodies

The newest event to Vancouver’s summer festival lineup, EPIC: The Sustainable Living Festival, promises to kick off the summer season with some of BC’s best sustainable food, beverages, local live entertainment, products and services. Now in its 7th year as Western Canada’s largest sustainable lifestyle showcase, EPIC is combining environmentally friendly living with outdoor festivities from…

Picnics at VanDusen Gardens with Truffles Catering

Before summer becomes a distant memory, a visit to VanDusen Gardens while the gardens are in full bloom is a must. If you plan your trip around lunch time, there are two choices for dining, the more formal Shaughnessy Restaurant and Truffles Fine Food Cafe offering sandwiches, salads, desserts, afternoon tea and now picnic basics.  What better way to…

Picnics Available at VanDusen Botanical Garden

 Tisket, A Tasket, a Tasty Picnic Basket “There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort,” or so said Somerset Maugham, and who could argue with that? There is nothing more perfect than a picnic on a summer’s day. Over the years picnickers have quietly kept VanDusen’s rolling lawns and babbling…