Tayybeh Syrian Caterers Present A Community Meal in Honour of the Pomegrante Syrian food is full of colour and flavour, much like the stories of the women in the kitchen on the evenings when these Vancouver caterers present their glorious food. The latest Tayybeh dinner was inspired by the colours, tones, scents, and complex flavours of…
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Contest Closed #Giveaway Starters, Salads, and Sexy Sides – Newest Cookbook From Caren McSherry
Inspiring Recipes to Make Every Meal an Occasion When Gourmet Warehouse owner Chef Caren McSherry publishes a cookbook, or announces any new project, people eagerly await the release or occasion. This week her newest cookbook is hitting the shelves, and she’s hosting an event to celebrate it. We’ve been lucky enough to preview it and…
Hand Crafted Spirits On TSN1410 Second Floor With Jason Sauve
Checking In With The Newly Opened Second Floor Eatery and their Blueberry Mojito For the latest Crafted Spirits Show on TSN1410 Joe Leary and I interview Bartender Jason Sauve at Second Floor Eatery + Bar. Second Floor is a sports bar with a gourmet menu, lots of viewing possibilities and some great bar talent. Stop…
Calming Skin Treatments By Apothekari
Apothekari – Pharmacist Designed and Locally Made When I was getting ready for my wedding, which was exactly five months ago as of tomorrow, I was taking a lot better care of myself and the results were obvious. I was watching what I ate and drank more closely, and working out a ton. I also…
Central Park Farms Dinner At The Farm
A Trip to Abbotsford To Central Park Farms – Free Range Farming At Its Best There’s nothing better than dinner in the field when the weather is good and the food comes from mere meters away. We meet the farmers from Central Park Farms earlier in the summer when we dined at Maan Farms and…
What’s Good this Week September 22 Edition
What To Fall Into This Week in Vancouver First day of fall today and not only are there new seasonal items to add to my instastories, but there are so many fall things to eat around the city. This week certainly felt like fall, and it rained like crazy off and on, but that didn’t…
Christmas In November At The Jasper Fairmont
Yes There Is a Santa Claus At Christmas In November This week I saw the eggnog hit the shelf, and that’s just way too soon, but it’s never too soon to plan a trip to the Jasper Park Lodge for the annual celebration “Christmas In November”. I attended last year as the Gastropost representative for…
What’s Good September 13 Edition
What’s Should Be On Your Agenda This Week How’s your September going? There’s a certain crispness in the air and signs of fall are rapidly appearing around here and I’m not sure whether to wear a sundress or a sweater these days. Although I’m usually at a loss when if comes to fashion, though. We…
Made With Love Cocktail Competition #Giveaway #EnjoyMWL
CONTEST CLOSED Made With love – September 25th – 2 Tickets Cocktail Competition #Giveaway #EnjoyMWL MADE WITH LOVE™ is visiting Vancouver on September 25th and stopping by the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver for a fun filled night of creativity and a cocktail extravaganza. We are judging this feat and have also partnered to give a couple tickets away so you can enjoy…
Chef’s Table Society Goes Wild For Pink Salmon
Chefs and The BC Salmon Marketing Council for a celebration WILD SALMON Don’t know about you, but we are trying to soak up all the summer we can before fall settles in! There’s been some fantastic outdoor feasts of late and we’re hoping this weather continues as we’ve got more planned, next weekend’s Feast of Fields and…
Dailey Method Dailey Cycle and Shimano Cycling Shoes
Why I Love Dailey Method Cycling Class And Insist You Get Proper Shoes I’ve been loving my Dailey Cycling Classes at The Dailey Method and have gotten even more out of each session since I invested in proper indoor cycling shoes. Sure you can still get your workout on with regular runners, but it’s so…
Hand Crafted Spirits on TSN140 – Dylan Williams at H2 Rotisserie & Bar
Tiki-themed and Classic Cocktails at The Westin Bayshore’s H2 For the latest Crafted Spirits Show on TSN1410 I interview Dylan Williams over some well-designed cocktails and happy hour eats at the newly opened H2 Rotisserie & Bar in the Westin Bayshore Hotel. Trader Vic’s was one of my favourite stops in the city back in the…
What’s Good August 28th Edition
What Should be on your Agenda It’s the last week of August, which always seems scary, but I’m feeling kind of ready for the upcoming season. How about you? Fretting that it’s the last days of summer in Vancouver, or full into the fall!? I’m getting my finances organized, back working out intensely, cooking lots…
Explore BC – Kamloops, Boldly Unscripted
Spotlight on Kamloops – Where to Eat, Drink, Spa and….Swing We’ve been traveling around British Columbia a fair bit this summer and one of the highlights has to be my trip to Kamloops. I’ve been to this city a few times in the past year or so, initially on my way to Sun Peaks as…
Let’s Go To The PNE – PNE Food Touring
PNE Food – Venturing Outside the Comfort Zone There’s still time to catch the fun at the PNE (lots of great bands still to play too!) and there’s definitely some PNE Food you’ll not want to miss, and perhaps some that you may find just a wee bit iffy. Michael had work off last Wednesday,…
Harvest Box Fundraiser For Venezuelan Children – Blue House Organics
Pemberton’s Blue House Organics and Vancouver’s Cacao Restaurant Raise Funds For Venezuelan Children’s Hospital We don’t need much incentive to purchase farm fresh vegetables, but when we hear we can support a local farm, while assisting hungry children further afield, we’re even more motivated. This summer and through the harvest season Blue House Organics from Pemberton, B.C.,…
Chef Shelome Bouvette From Chicha Peruvian Restaurant Recipe Causa Atun
Recipe for Causa Atun – Whipped Potato Topped With Tuna and Ponzu Dressing Recently my fellow members of Les Dames d’Escoffier, Your Secret Chef’s Karen Dar Woon and Chicha Restaurant’s Chef Shelome Bouvette, presented a cooking class at the Vancouver Aquarium’s Fin To Tail event. Seafood was donated by Fresh Ideas Start Here owner Jenice Yu,…
What’s Good August 17 Edition
What We Are Recommending This August! Summer Fun. It’s been a busy week so far and it’s only Thursday. Already we’ve been out to Langley to Central Park Farms to explore sustainably raised meat on the farm cooked by Chef Adrian Beaty, dined aboard a yacht as a fundraiser for Les Dames d’Escoffier and managed to…
Noodlebox Canada Launches Guest Feature Series
Noodlebox Pairs With Food Gays, Julie Van Rosendaal and Dreena Burton This August Noodlebox Canada has launched a guest feature recipe series with three innovative recipe creators to showcase each of their dishes, one available for a week-long run this August. My pals the Food Gays were asked to collaborate and you can scroll down…
What’s Good August 11th Edition
What To Do In Vancouver This Week of August Hard to believe we are hard into the second week of August. Summer’s been good to us so far, but it’s flying by and this smoky haze we have hanging over us is putting a bit of a damper on what would have otherwise been some…
