Last Minute Ideas For Canada Day Happy Canada Day to you all! It’s a fairly gloomy one here in Vancouver, but we’re not going to let that stop us from enjoying some Canadian Food and getting out to raise a good ol’ glass of Canadian beer, wine or a Canadian-spirit based cocktail or two! Here’s…
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The Nomad Cook – Dinner Club with Chef Kasuji Tanabe
The Nomad Cook – Chef Katsuji Tanabe In Vancouver The Nomad Cook, Chef Travis Peterson, hosts entertaining “Nomad Dinner Parties”, bringing world-class chefs into Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, as well as hosting supper clubs and cooking lessons himself. Tess, Chef Erin Vikars and I headed to The Compound to experience dishes from Chef Katsuji Tanabe, an …
Bowen Island Getaway
Escape to Bowen Island #ExploreBC Just a short ferry ride away lies a little paradise worthy of many days of exploration – Bowen Island. We headed over for a night and wished we’d booked for longer, but we managed to get a lot of tasty treats in in a very short time. Thanks to our…
Beauty Sleep – Dermalogica Sound Sleep Cocoon
Nightly Dermalogica Routine For Your Best Sleep Ever I don’t know about you, but sleep is always something I could use more of. I seem to go hard all day and then just collapse, but it’s not always restful, so when I was invited in to Dermalogica to try some of their new sleep-inducing products…
Gotham Steakhouse takes Social Hour outside for patio season
Happy Hour Just Got Happier at Gotham Steakhouse We love Gotham Steakhouse for it’s old school charm and recently had a lunch date there with some friends that was very delicious. It’s been a while since we’ve been there for happy hour, but that will change with this news! Prime rib sliders? Yes please! Gotham…
Minami Spring Menu Tasting
Minami Dishes Up Super Fresh Sushi and More with the Latest Tasting Menu We dined at Minami’s sister restaurant Miku late last year, but it had been a while since we’d been into this Yaletown spot, specializing in Aburi sushi, sake and cocktails. We headed on in to try the new spring tasting menu and…
Where To Take Dad For Father’s Day
Treat Dad With a Meal Out On Father’s Day What are you doing for your Dad this Father’s Day? We’ve got a couple suggestions for brunch and dinner, but you might just want to cook up his favourite meal at home, so there’s a great list of suggested recipes here too! Brunch at CRAFT CRAFT…
Bacardi Introduces Two New Premium Rums For Father’s Day
Bacardi Knows What Your Dad Wants To Drink Bacardi has two new premium rums coming out for Father’s day – BACARDÍ Añejo Cuatro and BACARDÍ Gran Reserva Diez and as usual, we are thirsty! First up is BACARDÍ Añejo Cuatro barrel-aged for a minimum of four years, this rum takes elevated cocktails to another level. It has a beautiful golden apricot hue…
CLOSED #Giveaway 2 Tickets to Nomad Dinner Club Katsuji Tanabe
Top Chef Mexico’s Katsuji Tanabe in Vancouver June 19 Congrats Rebecca! We’ve partnered with the Nomad Dinner Club, to give 2 tickets to their next event away! The Nomad Dinner Club promotes celebrity chefs and brings in some of the biggest names in the culinary world and this dinner features Chef Katsuji Tanabe. The evening…
BC Seafood Festival Signature Weekend
#BCSeafoodFest Features over 40 Local, National and International Chefs We’re packing our bags and heading over to the Island this weekend for the BC Seafood Festival with Chef Shelome Bouvette from Chicha! There’s still some tickets left but many events are sadly sold out! I’ve been many times and this year sounds EVEN BETTER. This…
Negroni Week at The Rosewood Hotel Georgia
Rosewood Hotel Georgia is pleased to announce that Reflections, 1927 Lobby Lounge, and Prohibition will all be participating in Negroni Week, June 4th – 10th Now in its sixth year, Negroni Week was launched as a celebration of the classic cocktail and as an effort to raise money for charities around the world. This year,…
Pairings – A Gourmet Evening At Science World
Pairings at Science World Explores The Science Behind Food And Wine Matchmaking While Supporting Underserved Children On June 13, enjoy gourmet bites from renowned chefs and restaurants paired with a selection of fine wines from Oliver’s Golden Mile Bench Science World is partnering up with La Chaîne des Rôtisseurs, an association of Gastronomy, and select wineries…
VegExpo – A Couple Musts
What Not To Miss At VegExpo I had lunch last week with my pal Chef Pola Schacter, a natural food distributor, at Lunch Club on Arbutus (great spot btw) and she brought me a couple items that will be available at the Veg Expo today and I wanted to be sure you didn’t miss them…
What’s Good This Week May 22 Edition
What’s Going On In Vancouver This Week It’s been a busy week for me here as I’ve joined a very cool company, Satel Creative, a Vancouver ecommerce agency, and right off the bat there’s an event this weekend, and I hope to see some of you there. Craft Beer Week starts this week and there’s…
National Caesar Day Part 3 – Caesars at Timber
Timber on Robson Has One of The Best Caesars in Town In honour of National Caesar Day we are throwing it back to our interview with Restaurant Manager Margot Balaro of both Timber Restaurant and Forage. We checked in with her for her Caesar recipe. and sampled some snacks at Timber and recorded another segment…
Caesars Aboard The Rocky Mountaineer
Fairmont Chateau Lake Louis’ Oisin Collins’ Recipe Featured on The Rocky Mountaineer Did you know the Caesar was actually invented in Calgary, developed by hotel restaurant manager Walter Chell nearly 40 years ago? This year, luxury tourist train Rocky Mountaineer and the Fairmont teamed up to create a new version of the classic drink, here…
Catena Zapata Malbec Argentino 2015
A Sneak Peak of Catena Zapata’s New Wines Recently we were lucky enough to sample a new superb super-Malbec, coming to British Columbia in September from Argentina, the 2015 Catena Zapata Malbec Argentino. The wine was introduced to us over empanadas at Joey Restaurant by Luis Reganato, the Chief Vineyard Manager at Catena Zapata, with…
Grey Goose Ambassador Stephanie Lamb Reinvents the Caesar
Grey Goose Ambassador Stephanie Lamb Reinvents the Caesar Who doesn’t love a good Caesar? We love Caesars at brunch, or after a cycle on a hot day. We’re particularly fond of Walter’s Caesar Mix, and highly suggest you pick up a bottle or two and mix up some of these alternatives from Canadian Grey Goose Ambassador Stephanie Lamb….
What’s Good This Week – May 15 Edition
What To Do In And Around Vancouver This Week I’m not exactly fond of this heat, so I’l be spending as much time as possible in an air conditioned environment, but there’s a few reasons I will be making a journey out around Vancouver and here’s a few of them. Gastown Chicken Fight Returns for…
BC Tastes Better – Eat Locally
British Columbia’s Local dining promotion Launches If you’re following me on Instagram, or any of my social feeds you’ll see there’s a whole lotta local going on lately. Last week we dined out in the greenhouse in Langley as part of BC Greenhouse Veggie Days, and yesterday we visited Milner Cheese, Maan Farms, Fraser Valley…
