Chefhyve Food Hall Opens on Kingsway Today’s news, fresh from Instagram, Chefhyve, a food hall concept, is opening in East Vancouver at 2525 Kingsway. “Chefhyve is a bite-sized, gourmet food hall offering amazing local and international cuisines prepared in open kitchens by local chefs using only real ingredients. The first location (meaning there’s plans for more) features two red seal certified Chefs with more than 20 years of experience.” Each menu is managed by a dedicated chef, where chefs are in full control of their kitchens and oversee their own teams, using seasonal ingredients. From Mediterranean food and artisan salads…
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New Restaurant Brings Contemporary Chinese Street Food Concept to Upscale Setting in the Granville Entertainment District News on a new opening inspired by Yunnan street-food. An innovative new culinary concept inspired by the comfort, soul and flavours of authentic Chinese street food makes its debut in Downtown Vancouver when Street Auntie Aperitivo House opens its doors at 1039 Granville Street on Wednesday, November 25. Drawing inspiration from her childhood experiences growing up in Yunnan Province, China, where street-food vendors are commonly referred to by a term of respect and affection known as ‘Street Aunties’, Owner Yuyina Zhang designed the Street…
Provence & Checkmate Wine Dinner – An evening drenched in collaboration & creativity Good Wine Gal, Barb Wild, Checks out Checkmate Winery at Provence. When you first meet Joshua (Josh) Carlson, the wine director at Provence, you might think he’s an artist. He is a little tailored. His blue green eyes are framed by heavy black rimmed glasses. He sports a soft, casual smile and solid melodious tones. The only thing missing is the tilted beret and perhaps a Gitane (a short, strong filtered cigarette with Paris written all over) hanging from his bottom lip. Alas, il n’est pas Français…
Celebrate Local Food Purveyors with MRKT Haul MRKT HAUL curates a monthly package of local Vancouver goods, all available for pick up at one location at 302 Industrial Avenue. Partners Corvette and Matt, owners of Shameless Buns Filipino Food Truck, created this platform for passionate entrepreneurs and curious Vancouver foodies to connect and discover new tastes each month. Every vendor is handpicked and selected by the team because they’ve tried their products and want more people to discover these amazing brands! They work with local businesses that don’t have a traditional ‘retail’ presence, or their own storefront and are selling…
Burnaby’s Hart House Restaurant launches new menus for lunch/brunch, happy hour, and dinner News in today from our friends at Hart House in Burnaby. Time to head out to Deer Lake Park and catch up with one of our all-time favourites. *Photos Jennie Nguyen Hart House’s Mediterranean inspired cuisine features fresh local ingredients: Executive Chef Mike Genest is changing things up with new daily sandwich specials, a Lois Lake Steelhead Burger, and rotating lunch specials. The patio is closed, but the restaurant has opened its second-floor rooms for lunch and dinner in order to offer guests a safe dining experience…
Le Crocodile’s Chef Michel Jacob now an Officer in the Ordre du Mérite agricole of the French Republic News in from our friends at the French Consulate today. Nos sincères félicitations Chef Jacob! On Sunday November 1, Chef Michel Jacob was awarded Officer in the Ordre du Mérite agricole of the French Republic for his special merits regarding the French gastronomy, by Philippe Sutter, Consul General of France in Vancouver. Since 1983, Michel Jacob has showcased the best of French cuisine, using both French and West coast ingredients, to serve France’s and Alsace’s classics. A hall mark of unswerving consistency…
“Orange You Glad It’s Halloween” Cocktail with Mandarins from Chile Mandarins from Chile are in season and we could all use a little more Vitamin C for immunity right now. I’ve whipped up a simple cocktail that was heavy on the orange colour and flavour with some gin, Aperol, Chilean mandarins, lime, soda and salt. Orange You Glad It’s Halloween 3 oz Gin (I like to use local, perhaps Tempo Craft Gin, but please yourself) 1 oz Aperol Juice of 2 Chilean Mandarins Juice of 1 lime 2 eggs whites 6 ice cubes Sprinkle of red sea salt Add all…
Taste Canada Awards has announced the winners of the country’s only national, bilingual food writing awards As you all know I’m obsessed with cookbooks and am always keen to see who receives the Taste Canada Awards. As most of my readers are English-speaking, I’ve included the English titles only. Congratulations to everyone who’s brave enough have published a cookbook, to those nominated here and all the winners. This year, 86 cookbooks entered the competition, representing authors from 7 provinces. A shortlist announced in June narrowed the competition to a maximum of 5 entries per category. The 20 gold and silver…
What to do in and around Vancouver right now! Despite the current circumstances, we Vancouverites are innovative folks, and we are safely continuing our lives as best we can. This weekend there’s actually a few openings, lots of great brunch to be had and many ways to get out, or stay home, and entertain yourself. Garden of Granite Winery What’s this? A new urban winery? Good Wine Gal alerted us to Garden of Granite located at 228 East Esplanade North which has a soft opening October 24 from 1 to 4 pm. “Opening a new business in times of Covid…
What’s New at Stag’s Hollow Winery Good Wine Gal visited Stag’s Hollow Winery this fall and came back with all sorts of notes and some very good wine! More on Good Wine Gal here. Meet Winemaker Keira LeFranc Good Wine Gal on Zoom November 17th at 5:30 pm. REGISTER! It was 11 am. Blue sky and full sun found me with my windows down enjoying the sounds of summer in the Okanagan Valley. I pulled through the gates and followed the drive up to the winery/tasting room building. I had arrived at Stag’s Hollow Winery. With Covid19 protocols in place…
Aburi Restaurants Canada trail blazes home dining solutions during second wave of pandemic As Canadians head into fall while riding out the second wave of the pandemic, Aburi Restaurants Canada (the restaurant group behind Miku, Minami, Aburi Hana, TORA and Gyoza Bar) is launching a new platform to make at-home dining more exciting and accessible. Aburi at Home brings cuisine from each of their restaurants together under one comprehensive site www.aburiathome.com for ease of ordering pickup or delivery. The demand for their unique culinary offerings has continued to grow and guests can now order their go-to dishes or adopt new favourites…
Lil Bird Sandwich Co. migrates inside Kafka’s Coffee on Main with new fall/winter menu News from Lil Bird Sandwich Shop – Mount Pleasant’s destination for wholesome sammies Lil Bird Sandwich Co. (2525 Main Street) is migrating indoors for the fall/winter season. The window sandwich bar is getting a makeover with a new stand inside Kafka’s Coffee and serving up a brand new menu by head chef Nitzan Cohen with house made breads by pastry chef Adi Kesselman. “Our Lil Bird pop-up has definitely become a neighbourhood staple throughout the summer, and we loved our sandwich window,” says Aaron Kafka, owner of…
L’Abattoir Hosts The Pear Tree, Showcasing Chef Jaegers Favourite Dishes News from L’Abattoir – No. 1 Gaoler’s Mews shifts amidst the pandemic to offer an unforgettable socially distanced dining experience celebrating a Canadian culinary institution, The Pear Tree. Tickets to Edition No. 20 of L’Abattoir’s exclusive dining experience, No. 1 Gaoler’s Mews are set to launch this week for the first and final event of 2020 on Friday, November 13th. Partial proceeds from ticket sales to be donated to the BC Hospitality Foundation. Chef Lee Cooper couldn’t be more excited to host two of his mentors, Chef Scott Jaeger and…
Tasty Reasons to Visit the Fairmont Chateau Whistler News from our friends at Fairmont Chateau Whistler came into our inbox and we had to share – GLV Executive Chef Isabel Chung and her culinary brigade at Fairmont Chateau Whistler have been busy creating an abundance of tasty and tantalizing reasons to visit Whistler this fall. OKTOBERFEST AT FAIRMONT To celebrate Oktoberfest, Fairmont Chateau Whistler has introduced a new 3-course Bavarian BBQ on its beautiful rooftop terrace, where family-style dining meets spectacular mountain vistas. This relaxed and welcoming dinner takes place at the covered and heated Woodlands Rooftop restaurant and features…
Mt. Boucherie – The Boo & the Who of it! Good Wine Gal Catches Up with Mt. Boucherie Winery! Join in for this Wine Wednesday to learn more about the winery and what’s new at Mt Boo! October 7, 2020 5:30 pm. Sign up here. The more things change the more they stay the same. I’m talking about quality – specifically the quality of wine coming from Mt. Boucherie. You may think that change has only been facing us in the last 6 months, but at Mt. Boo (pet name), I would say ever since Jesse Harnden arrived, it’s been…
Food and Drink News for This Week Here’s your weekly dose of Good Life Vancouver Recommendations for Vancouver Events in and around the city sourced from press releases, random Instagram scrolling and things I saw when I venture (carefully) out onto the streets. Hope you enjoy this new series! Tips to cassandra at goodlifevancouver.com. Beta5 Chocolates Celebrates 9 Years They’re sold out of their birthday packs, cream puffs, and bars, but Beta5 still has some chocolate bars in stock for their birthday celebrations. SALTED CARAMEL POLYGON BAR is a 56% dark milk chocolate bar that filled with pockets of creamy…
Yaggers Kitsilano Presents Happy Halibut Pop Up – Fish & Chips At Lunch We have a contest to celebrate the opening! Head on over to Instagram to enter!!! View this post on Instagram GIVEAWAY! The Happy Halibut Grand Opening Giveaway! 🐟🌊 To celebrate the opening of @happy_halibut pop-up at Yagger’s Kitsilano, we are giving away lunch for four people with beers! 🧡🍻 @yaggerskits How to enter: 1. LIKE this post 2. Tag your 3 best friends who you want to have an epic lunch with. 3. Follow @goodlifevan and @happy_halibut 4. Share this post to your IG story…
Where Can You Celebrate Beer, Wine & Spirits We’ve got to make the best of this fall and wine, beer and spirits add to the celebration. Good Wine Gal and I sussed out a few good things coming up in and around Vancouver, on and offline! For more about what GWG is up to, check out her website here. https://www.goodwinegal.ca/ Sommcom and National Geographic In what looks to be an a visually stimulating and exotic experience Sommcom has partnered with National Geographic to offer a “unique region of the world” of wine. It’s Virtual Summit Series is an amazing learning…
Wine Sessions With Mark Shipway Fall is here and school is back, in many different forms. Why not take the opportunity to learn more about our favourite subject, wine? Good Wine Gal, Barb Wild presents Wine Sessions with Vancouver’s top wine educator Mark Shipway. Twelve sessions will run from October 1st to Dec 17th. You can find all on https://goodwinegal.ca “online wine sessions”. Or REGISTER here. First up it’s all about grapes with Three Great Grape Sessions, Four Italian Red Wine Sessions and then Five French Red Wine sessions. Pick one or pick all! There’s now two Time Zones -…
September 19-20 $2 From Each Imposible Burger Sold Donated to Variety Club. Last night we checked out White Spot’s new veggie burgers and the texture and taste was the best semblance to the meat burger we’ve had yet. Go try one this weekend and you’ll be nurturing yourself and those that benefit from Variety Club. GIVEAWAY White Spot and Triple O’s will also be giving away a total of 1,000 FREE Impossible™ Burgers — hungry burger lovers are invited to enter the giveaway via whitespot.ca/contest and tripleos.com/contest. From the release: Beloved BC restaurant chains White Spot and Triple O’s are reaffirming their 92-year-strong commitment to…
