3rd Annual Joy of Feeding Date: June 30th, 2013 Time: 1-4pm Location: UBC Farm Cost: Tickets are $50 and include a recipe book with each cook’s story and family recipe. Children 13 and under are free with their parent or guardian’s ticket purchase. Join us at the UBC Farm to celebrate and enjoy comfort foods cooked from the heart. Sixteen home cooks…
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CONTEST CLOSED #Giveaway #Win $85 Gift Cert for White Spot 85th Anniversary Menu
CONGRATS TO DILARA! White Spot is celebrating their 85th Anniversary by bringing back some all-time favs until July 13, 2013. Try the delicious Chicken Pick’ns, the Meatloaf Dinner, original BBQ Chicken Sandwich and Triple Triple three-patty burger. Finish your meal off with Bumbleberry Pie or the Nat Bailey ‘Adult’ Shake with Bailey’s and Amaretto. To win: 1) Leave a comment on this post naming your…
White Spot 85th Anniversary Menu
White Spot is celebrating their 85th Anniversary by bringing back some all-time favs until July 13, 2013. The classic recipes date back to when Nat Bailey, their founder started it all. Head to any location to try the delicious Chicken Pick’ns from its first location on Granville Street in Vancouver the Meatloaf Dinner, original BBQ Chicken Sandwich and Triple Triple three-patty burger. Finish your meal…
Le Tigre Cuisine
Chefs Steve Kuan and Clement Chan are behind the magic at Le Tigre Food Truck, an innovative Asian dining concept that travels the streets of Vancouver. They serve up dishes such as the incredibly tasty Kick Ass Rice, a dish of fried rice with sake, dashi, poached egg and a choice of braised pork belly of…
Cayman Island Cookout 2013
Published in Vancouver Island Style Magazine: For those who take culinary travel seriously, the annual Cayman Island Cookout is a weekend that you will want to add to the top of your bucket list. Held each January and hosted by Chef Eric Ripert at the Ritz Carlton Grand Cayman, the hotel where his restaurant Blue is located, this series of…
Chili Tank Food Truck
The meaty aromas coming from a strange looking tank-like fixture at the Winter Farmers Market is what first attracted me to the Chili Tank, but vegetarians fear not, there’s a veggie version too. The tank is an actual military soup kitchen that was found in Germany and shipped to Canada and can be heated…
CONTEST CLOSED #giveaway #Contest #win 2 tickets to Undercover
Congrats to @StreeStyleStef June 27- The Shooting Stars Foundation Presents the 9th annual “Undercover” An investigative wine tasting targeting wine with the most “bang for your buck” To WIN: 1) Leave a comment on this post naming your favourite wine variety 2) Follow @goodlifevan on Twitter 3) Post the following to Twitter: RT AND comment on 2 ticket…
Terra Breads
I have a friend, a food writer and editor, who comes to Vancouver, struts to Granville Island at what seems to me as the crack of dawn to wait, and not so patiently, for the white chocolate blueberry bread from Terra Breads. I myself covet the veggie sandwich and the Foccacia and, truth be told,…
Aussie Pie Guy
This week Vancouver got a little more thunder from down under with the arrival of The Aussie Pie Guy food truck, currently in front of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in the 600 block of Hamilton Street near Georgia. The truck has sweet and savoury individual pies such as the Veggie Pie with potato, eggplant, zucchini,…
The First Ever Wakeboard & Music Festival in Osoyoos June 21/23, 2013
Friday – Brent Tyler at Kekuli Bistro at 4PM with a 9PM afterparty at the Sage Pub. Saturday – 10AM to 6PM: Beach party with DJ GLObal at Walnut Beach Resort with VIP watching of the Double Up Pro-Am Competition, burger buffet lunch and wakeboarding for anyone who wants to ride FOLLOWED BY Wassabi Collective…
Northwest Bay Ranch in Nanoose Bay to Host 2013 Crabfest with Proceeds to Moorcroft Regional Park
(Nanoose Bay, BC) – On Saturday July 20, 2013 from 11 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Nanoose Bay’s Northwest Bay Ranch, home to Seafood4Life, will host a family-friendly crab feast. Tickets are $30.00 inclusive per person and include a plate of Dungeness crab straight from the ocean with corn on the cob, coleslaw and bread roll…
Tractor – Everyday Healthy Foods
Today’s visit to the freshly opened Tractor at 1903 West 4th Avenue in Kitsilano provided a much needed break from the meat-centric day I had yesterday at Brewery and the Beast, a massive beer and meatfest. Not that Tractor doesn’t serve meat, as in fact it does have both a wicked beef stew and beef short rib…
The Bibo con Cucina
Featuring REAL Neopolitan Pizza made in the wood-fired oven and unique and authentic Italian products for sale and on the menu, The Bibo is fresh from a renovation and serving lunch and dinner from Tuesday to Sunday and brunch on Saturday and Sunday. At lunch the list of panini is endless with options such as…
Fable Restaurant
Right in the heart of Kitsilano Fable Restaurant delivers fresh, local food with flair. Chef Trevor Bird and front of house partners Kathy Shleyer and Ron MacGillivray are genuinely invested in their concept of farm to table cuisine. After a near win on Season 2 of Top Chef Canada, Vancouver fortunately seduced Chef Bird and…
The Missing Ingredient Launches Canada Wide
The must have monthly subscription service for Canadian foodies. Is there something missing from your weekly dinner-time routine? Your dinner needs to meet the Missing Ingredient, a monthly box of inspiration delivered to your doorstep. Described best as a culinary adventure in a box, each monthly Missing Ingredient subscription provides hard-to-find ingredients paired with feature…
Catching up with Bob Blumer
It’s the second season of World’s Weirdest Restaurants. Perfect time to catch up with Bob Blumer. What was in your elementary school lunch kit? Egg salad sandwiches Where did you first learn to cook? I taught myself in college so that I could eat beyond my means Did you attend culinary school – if so,…
Mosaic Bar and Grille Spot Prawn Tasting Menu
Mosaic has happily jumped on the spot prawn trend and Executive Chef Thomas Heinrich has done a spectacular job of showcasing these local Ocean Wise beauties. The tasting menu is $45 without wine pairings and $65 with more than generous portions. Chef Heinrich spoiled us with a few extras the first being an gorgeous Spring…
BC Spot Prawns – Spotted Around BC
We’ll collect some BC Spot Prawn dishes from restaurants and home cooks around Vancouver. Anything to add? Email me at cassandra at goodlifevancouver dot com. Le Gavroche – FRESH, LOCAL, SEASONAL UNTIL MAY 30TH Spot Prawn Ceviche & Prawn Cracker Sous Vide Chicken Breast stuffed with Spot Prawns & Citrus Vinaigrette Green Apple Souffle LE GAVROCHE…
Tête-à-Tête cocktail party at Tableau Bar
Fresh off their win for Best French Casual at the 24th annual Vancouver Restaurant Awards, Tableau celebrated with a little cocktail party with lots of fresh seafood and some of the seasons first BC Spot Prawns. Degan Walters and Sophia Cheng particularly liked the prawns boiled up simply by Chef Marc-Andre Choquette. Plates of antipasto,…
Another Great Dining Package from VANEATS.ca – Suika SUPASUIKA
The crazy boys over at VANEATS.ca have connected again with Suika Snackbar to bring us a $35 tasting experience complete with cocktails. I absolutely love eating here. The room is always full and full of action, there’s bound to be a birthday party which means the staff perform a birthday song with all the theatrics, and the…
