Well if it isn’t just one of our favourite chefs visiting one of our favourite local restaurants for a collaboration dinner! On Friday January 30th, Chef Dale Mackay will visit Fable Restaurant to create a five-course meal alongside the Fable’s Chef Trevor Bird Last year former Vancouver dweller Chef Mackay headed back to his hometown of Saskatoon to open Ayden…
Month: January 2015
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL TICKETS ON SALE JANUARY 6
It’s time to start thinking about which events you will attend for this year’s Wine Festival. Tickets go on sale Tuesday, January 6 at 9:30 a.m. for all public events at the 37th annual Vancouver international Wine Festival, presented by The Vancouver Sun. Forty-three events are available for wine lovers, including dinners with international vine…
Farm 2 Fork New “Pop-Up” Concept Opens
Resolve to eat better with Farm 2 Fork’s Pop Up from January 10th until February 2nd , 2015. Chef Nicolas Brandon Hipperson and Sous Chef Shahni Arshad are the creative team behind this project and they’ve developed a stellar menu full of uber-local products from local farms such as North Arm and Helmers. Farm 2 Fork will…
Street Food City Returns To Dine Out Vancouver Festival
Week-long street food pod dishes out daily specials, January 19 – 25, 2015 Street Food City, Vancouver’s original street food pod, returns for a week-long pop-up during Dine Out Vancouver Festival. Now in its fourth year, Street Food City will take place January 19 – 25, 2015 on the north plaza grounds of the Vancouver…
Hippie Garden Chips
If you’ve resolved to eat better in 2015, fear not, there’s a whole industry out there willing and ready to feed you the latest in “must have” health foods. While you are reading up on what to throw in your smoothie, and what is the ideal post-workout snack, you can rely on your common sense, and simply…
Nut-based Cheese Tasting at Graze Vegetarian
On January 11th, Graze is proud to present a Vancouver first – a cheese & wine tasting event featuring exclusively non-dairy, nut-based cheeses. The cheeses are developed in house at Graze Vegetarian by Chef Karen McAthy, from ancient cultures roqueforti and camemberti and b. Linens (used in brevi and Linburger style “smelly” cheeses) – cultures…
Lighten up in 2015 with Earls
Earls NON-ALCOHOLIC CRAFT SODAS Earls new non-alcoholic Craft Sodas are made with simple, pure ingredients. A fresh way to start the new year with unprocessed, natural ingredients and a great option from sweet soda pop or alcohol for the designated driver in your party this holiday season. This year Earls offers a selection of alcohol…
MEET THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE WINE AT VANWINEFEST
Vine stars from around the world will travel to Vancouver for the 37th annual Vancouver International Wine Festival, presented by The Vancouver Sun, February 20 to March 1. Each of the 170 wineries from the 14 participating countries will send a top-tier representative to the festival to present their wines. They’ll participate in educational seminars,…
Big Whites at Big White
Big Whites at Big White brings together fantastic food and wine from across the Okanagan. The event is a follow up to the hugely successful event ‘Big Reds’. This event showcases the best white wines produced in the Okanagan Valley and gives event goers the opportunity to taste the quality and individuality that comes from…
PuSh Festival is Coming
The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is one of Vancouver’s signature events and presents groundbreaking work in the live performing arts. Push 2015 starts January 20. The PuSh Festival expands the horizons of Vancouver artists and audiences with work that is visionary, genre-bending, multi-disciplined, startling and original. The Festival showcases acclaimed international, Canadian and local…
Fitness Fridays Long Walks and Blue Sky
Not sure how you did with your fitness goals over the holidays, but I am going to give myself a C+ in the category. I ended up pulling a muscle in my back, and got a throat infection, but I still got out for long walks almost everyday. Now that I am not hacking up…
Dine Out Vancouver 2015 Brunch Crawls
Care to try out a few new or different restaurants for brunch? During Vancouver’s Dine Out Festival Vancouver Foodster has put together six options throughout six different neighbourhoods. Grab your friends and stroll through Gastown, Commercial Drive, Kitsilano, The West End, Downtown or Main Street all while snacking on bites from participating restaurants. Come hungry! Gastown Brunch Crawl Date:…
