Downtown Hotspots Unveil New Menus for Dine-In, Takeout and Delivery – Cibo and Uva Well this is good news! We are excited to see Chef Jesse Zuber back in Vancouver and look forward to checking out Uva and Cibo soon. From the announcement: Cibo Trattoria and UVA Wine & Cocktail Bar are marking the gradual…
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Hawksworth Restaurant Reopens for Dine-In Service
Hawksworth’s Restaurant Is Open Again Over the past weeks, Hawksworth’s crew has been hard at work trialing new menu items and is now open for dining in safely with a completely new menu concept. From the announcement: Hawksworth Restaurant reopened its doors this Saturday, June 6 and returned to its roots – bringing classic dishes…
Organic Ocean Donates 100 lbs Of Spot Prawns
Organic Ocean Donated 100 lbs of spot prawns to the LunchLAB: Chefs for Families Program We are so grateful for all doing their part to support those in need in our community. Organic Ocean has once again stepped up and is providing spot prawns to the LunchLAB program to make a nutritional bowl of spot…
Provence Marinaside’s Spot Prawn Features
Provence Marinaside Serves Up BC Spot Prawns It’s Spot Prawn season and Provence Marinaside’s Owner/Executive Chef Jean Francis Quaglia treats BC Spot Prawns with a gentle hand to bring out all their delicate flavour. Their BC Spot Prawn Menu features Gazpacho with Poached BC Spot Prawns served with a cucumber and lime relish, One Pound…
Good Wine Gal’s Guide to Port
The Essential Wine Lover’s Guide to Port This week is the beginning of Good Wine Gal’s amazing series about one of the most versatile wine styles, Port. “The Essential Wine Lover’s Guide to Port” highlights Ruby, Late Bottled Vintage, Tawny, White, Pink, Single Quinta & Vintage and Colhieta Port. There are four interactive sessions. Good…
Provence Marinaside Now Open For Dine-In
What’s new this week at Provence Marinaside Great news from Provence Marinaside today as they’ve re-opened for dine-in service and they’ve spelled out precisely how they are keep guests and employees safe. They’re also doing takeout, French Food Made Easy cook at home kits, and their cocktail kits. We’ve sampled both and we would definitely…
Tojo’s Dining Room Reopens with Spot Prawn Season Right Around the Corner
Tojo’s Dining Room Presents the Noble BC Spot Prawn Make the most of this short but sweet season at Tojo’s! It’s been far too long since we visited. News from Tojo’s today! Spring brings us one of BC’s most celebrated ingredients – Spot Prawns. This year Tojo’s will be offering a special Spot Prawn Omakase…
Weekly Wine Round UP
What’s Up In The Wine World This Week Here’s our round up of what’s on our radar for wine. Good Wine Gal, Barb Wild and I will curate this weekly list, so feel free to email us with suggestions of what to include. We’ll add to during the week as time permits. Support BC Local…
¿CóMO? Taperia Reopens Doors As Tapas Bar, Wine Store, And Market
¿CóMO? Taperia Reopens Some more opening news from East Van’s ¿CóMO? Taperia. All the best on your new adventures crew! GLV Announcement: Things may look a bit different when ¿CóMO? Taperia (201 E 7th Ave) reopens its doors, but the team is staying true to their roots as an authentic destination for all things Spain. Starting…
Nuba Restaurants Re-Open Gastown and Mount Pleasant
Nuba Re-Open Two Locations For Dine-In It’s happening slowly and safely. Here’s some news from one of our favourite spots, Nuba Mount Pleasant and Gastown opens. Local Middle Eastern cuisine favourite Nuba are open for dine-in service at their Mount Pleasant location (146 East 3rd Avenue) and Gastown location (207 West Hastings Street). Open at…
L’Abattoir Re-Opening May 29th
L’Abattoir Owner and Chef Lee Cooper Announces Dine-In Dinner Service Thanks to L’Abattoir for this news today. We’re trying to spread the news on our wonderful local restaurants again, as our thoughts are with all our friends in the hospitality industry. Please support your independent businesses. GLV From their announcement: After making the difficult decision…
St. Lawrence Re-Introduces Dine-In Service Starting May 28th
Dine-In at St. Lawrence Or Grab Some Of Their Popular Take-Out We’ve been trusting our dining experience to J-C Poirier and his team for at least a decade, so look forward to visiting safely soon. They’ve opened up reservations and Dine-In and Take-Out is open Wednesday through Sunday. Our thoughts are with all our friends…
Wine Wednesday Round Up
What’s Up In The Wine World This Week We’ve decided to do a round up of what’s going on in wine in and around the city, province, country or world, depending what lands on our radar. Good Wine Gal, Barb Wild and I will curate this weekly list, so feel free to email us with…
Walter Craft Caesar Fundraiser
Walter National Caesar Day With Funds To Second Harvest With our social circles smaller, the month of May is looking and feeling different than usual for most. However, there are still classic customs that we can embrace to celebrate warmer weather, and each other. On Thursday, May 14 Canadian made favourite, Walter Craft Caesar and …
Provence Marinaside National Caesar Day
Provence Marinaside Celebrates Caesar Day With A Contest Some news about a great Caesar Cocktail Kit from our friends at Province Marinaside! GLV May 14, the Ides of May, is a much more auspicious day than the Ides of March were for the historical Caesar. This year May 14th is National Caesar Day, the day…
BC Wine Wednesday With Good Wine Gal
Barb Wild and Mark Shipway Bring You BC Wine Wednesday Starting May 13, 2020 Now here’s an invitation that I will accept. BC Wine Wednesday with two of our great local wine teachers. Barb Wild’s latest news! – GLV Check out The Good Wine Gal site, and her previous picks here. Are you going to miss your…
Tacofino Reopens Today For Cinco De Mayo
Born-in-BC Brand Debuts ‘Tacofino-To-Go’ Menu Including DIY Nacho, Cocktail, Family Kits Via Delivery, Curbside Pickup at Kitsilano Location to Celebrate Cinco de Mayo Great news from our friends at Tacofino! I’m getting myself some tacos today! GLV Tacofino fans, rejoice — just in time for Cinco de Mayo, the beloved BC brand is returning to…
East Van Roasters Cakes, Coffee and Chocolate
East Van Roasters Gives Back Daily And Now You Can Shop Online To Give To Your Mom News from our friends at East Van Roasters – GLV Beloved Vancouver social enterprise, East Van Roasters (319 Carrall St., Vancouver) is opening its new online shop filled with its freshly roasted coffee, hand-crafted chocolates, and quality cakes…
JuJu’s Pops Up On Main Street
JuJu’s Does Takeout and Delivery From Published On Main We didn’t get the chance to eat at Published before this terrible situation raised its ugly head, but we’ll remedy late as soon as we can. In the meantime we got this news about JuJu’s Drink Shack and their tiki drinks and rotating pan-Asian style dishes….
VAL Tait Launches 2house Winery
Okanagan Winemaker Val Tait And Ian Sutherland announce 2house Winery News from Naramata about a new winery project that we’re pretty darn excited. GLV Winemakers Val Tait and Ian Sutherland are pleased to announce their new venture, “2house”, a project that brings together their passion for winemaking, with the simple joys of the vineyard and…
