Take a break from last minute shopping on Tuesday, December 23, 2014 and enjoy a meatless holiday feast at Graze Restaurant. Choose from 2 seatings, early or late; reserve before 6pm and or for after 8pm. $35 per person 604-620-8822 Graze Holiday Feast Menu Paired Soup & Salad Smoked carrot bisque with carrot jerky & cinnamon oil. & Timbale of braised pear, fennel, celery root and kale chiffonade with a mustard cream dressing and fig. Entrées Winter Vegetable Country Pie Cauliflower & kale pie crust, filled with winter vegetable dauphinois, layered with red & beluga lentils, tarragon cream, topped with whipped acorn squash (gluten…
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Well friends there is a very cool evening coming up with one of our favourite restaurants fundraising for one of our favourite causes. On Tuesday, Dec. 16th, Graze restaurant is donating 20% of dinner sales to help The World In A Garden build school gardens around the world! Simply book a table at {604-620-8822}, mention The World In A Garden, and you’re on your way to enjoying a delicious meal. There is also Silent Auction. Please share and invite your friends as well! The World In A Garden is a multicultural urban farm and garden project that educates community and youth…
This holiday season we are catching up with some of our favourite local personalities to find out how they are celebrating the holidays and what might be on their holiday wish lists. First up, cookbook author and food writer, Jennifer Schell. Schell’s cookbook, The Butcher, The Baker, The Wine and Cheese Maker celebrates all great food artisans and products from the Okanagan. It’s sold out, but stay tuned for the next version, with recipes and stories from “By the Sea”; Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and Vancouver Island. That’ll be a must for holiday gifts come 2014. 1) What…
It’s not too late to be that person that makes all of their Christmas gifts. You don’t need to channel Martha Stewart; there’s many fairly low effort items that you can whip up in your kitchen and look like a superstar with something either savoury or sweet. Thanks to the cookbook from Alison Walker, Handmade Gifts From The Kitchen, if you can follow some straightforward instructions and you know how to tie a bow, you can wrap up everything from Bourbon Peaches to mini Christmas Cakes and please all sorts of hungry people on your holiday gift list. We recently made the Rosemary…
What’s locally made, smells delicious and is 100% natural? That would be Scentuals Body Care, a line of essential oils, bath, body and hair care that comes in all sorts of delicious smelling flavours such as vanilla, gingerbread latte and evergreen, especially for the holiday season. Individual items are great for stocking stuffers, or grab a full gift set such as the vanilla tangerine pictured above for someone that’s been extra good. The Christmas memory set has made our house smell divine. One spray and the festivities have begun! Plus we’ve got the soap and handcream in the bathroom so our guests…
We’ll be publishing some recipes over the holidays to help make your holiday food prep easier. We’ll have some of our own of course, but we just had to post some from our pal Chef Dino Renaerts as he has teamed up with President’s Choice for these great turkey recipes. The Turkey Sous-Vide recipe is a sure fire way to keep your turkey moist and can be prepared a week in advance. (A bake-alternative method is also included in the recipe for those who don’t have the immersion circulator). As for those tasty turkey leftovers the next day: Turkey Stuffed Yorkshire Pudding served with…
Each year we choose our favourite gifts for foodies and present on Global TV. This year the choices were so tough, as I only have six minutes, so with apologies to all of those who know how much I love and want them under my tree, here’s the list for this year. We will also curate a list of best local sweets AND best local cookbooks for gifting so stay tuned. Comment below with your wish list foodie gifts. We’d be pleased to hear what you want! Bellini Kitchen Master by Cedarlane Culinary $699 Porthole Infuser $99 Temper Chocolate Pastry West Vancouver various…
Imagine the holiday classic you know & love re imagined by Tim Burton… This gothic twist on the Nutcracker will be told through the music of Tchaikovsky and Danny Elfman, featuring characters from The Nutcracker suite and your favourite Tim Burton films. Sugarplum fairies, or evil trick-or-treaters? Dream guide, or Betelgeuse? This dramatic comedy is full to the sparkling brim with burlesque, circus, music, and theatre. Get ready. Christmas will never be the same… Friday Dec 5th + 12th Doors at 7pm show at 8pm Tickets $25 advance $30 at the door / 19+ adults only BUY TICKETS
Recently we’ve been scrubbing ourselves clean and super smooth due to Canadian-owned Rocky Mountain Soap Company’s Sugar Scrub. We’re also a big fan of the 100% natural Sugar Plum Soap and have had more than a few soaks in the tub with the Sugar Plum Bath Salts. Where to buy these fragrant products? It’s easy now as two new Toxin-Free Rocky Mountain Soap Company stores are soon opening in Bentall Centre and Burnaby, Metropolis in Metrotown. And the stores, like the product,s are non-toxic and all materials used in the stores’ construction are either re-used, re-claimed, recyclable or compostable. Rocky Mountain Soap…
It’s on! Buy Local Week (Dec 2-8) is on in the City of Vancouver and the Province of British Columbia! Buy Local Week is a celebration of local retailers, products, entrepreneurs and communities during the holiday season. Visit LOCO’s member’s page and find great local businesses near you. Why Buy Local this holiday season? find unique gifts, triple the impact of your charitable giving, create local jobs, reduce your environmental footprint, support your community, meet your neighbours and and most of all…have fun! How Can You Participate? Social Media Write a holiday card to your favourite local business to win over $5000 in prizes including weekend getaways to Tofino and Whistler.…
In the spirit of the holiday season and to show their appreciation for the communities in which they serve, Famoso Neapolitan Pizzerias across British Columbia will once again be selling their authentic Campania tomato sauce in-store from November 12th to December 31st, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the Mealshare program, supplying hot meals to those in the province who need them most. Mealshare is a Canadian social enterprise that partners with restaurants like Famoso, allowing patrons to purchase Mealshare-branded menu items, and in return, a meal is donated to someone in need. When Famoso guests purchase a…
Reebok Canada Partners with Public Health Agency of Canada and Canadian Football League to Provide BOKS to Elementary School Students in Canada Free Morning Physical Activity Program to Commence this Fall in Elementary Schools across Canada Reebok Canada has partnered with the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Football League (CFL) to expand and enhance physical activity in Canadian elementary schools through BOKS (Build Our Kids’ Success). With a goal to enlist more than 450 schools in the next five years, BOKS, a free morning physical activity program, will launch in 10 schools this September, serving more than 400 kids…
See the Lights of Hope display On November 27, 2014, watch this year’s Lights of Hope display light up for the first time during a special Lights of Hope Community Celebration. This festive event features fireworks, food trucks and fun for the whole family!What: Lights of Hope Community Celebration When: November 27, 2014 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Where: 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver After November 27, you can continue to see the display from dusk to dawn until January 12, 2015. About the Lights of Hope display Since 1998, we have brought attention to the Lights of Hope fundraising campaign by building a spectacular…
Famoso Neapolitan Pizzeria does true Neapolitan pizza out on Commercial Drive and recently added some innovative toppings just to mix things up on the largely traditional menu. The pizzas are all made all made with‘00’ Caputo flour and are hand-stretched and tossed. Excellent crispy and thin crusts and are then topped with tomatoes imported from Southern Italy’s Campania and often fresh fior-di-late whole-milk mozzarella along with a variety of toppings, and no matter what tops the pizza, they all end up in the Italian pizza oven for 90 seconds at 900 degrees Fahrenheit. The atmosphere is casual at Famoso; guests order at the counter and are then served table side. Famoso’s menu includes appetizers,…
Happiness and Cheer at Forage This Year Stop in to Forage this holiday season for their excellent holiday lunch, served Monday to Friday, beginning December 1st through to December 19th. Chef Whittaker offers a four-course menu for $35, with the added bonus of house made cranberry preserve for each guest to take home. This is a meal to share as the minimum is four people and reservations are required. Check out www.foragevancouver.com or call 604-661-1400 for further information and to book your fun festive lunch. We stopped in for a preview and were, as usual, blown away by Whittaker’s menu. The only…
We love kettle chips, so this spring when Neal Brothers announced a partnership with two of our favourite chefs and brought us two new flavours , we were of course eager to get our hands on a bag or two. These chips feature Vancouver chef Vikram Vij and Montreal chef Chuck Hughes for these new varieties. Chef Vij contributed a masala spice recipe and his chip is called Vij’s Delhi-Licious, and Hughes celebrated his love of Sriracha with the Srirachup chips. The chips are great for the holidays. Both are chock full of flavour and a there’s a little more than just a kick of spice. We are also…
Join AIDS Vancouver on December 1 for an Open House to celebrate World AIDS Day and officially kick-off their Holiday Grocery donation campaign. When: Monday, December 1 Where: AIDS Vancouver, 1107 Seymour Street When: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Celebrate bringing in grocery items or a with cash donation; and participate in the Red Ribbon awards Formal presentation with appetizers from 11:30-1 pm. Red Ribbon awards presentation to Jackie Haywood, Dr. John Blatherwick & Anne Beaufoy at 12:15 pm. Table presentations from 11:30-1:30 pm on; Educate to Empower/HIV 101, Helpline, Community Outreach/Volunteerism, CHIWOS(Women living with HIV), New Face of HIV/Undetectable, Health Promotion/Prevention…
Looking for a holiday gift for those gourmet lovers in your life? Amazing Clubs Canada ships boxes from its 22 different clubs across Canada. Full of rare products from international and domestic artisans and sources, the club creates a one-of-a-kind gifting option. With everything from coffee to candles there is certain to be something for everyone on your list. The best thing about this gift is that it keeps giving throughout the year, as the boxes arrive monthly, so you’ll always be in the good books of all your gift receivers. And if you are lucky they may even invite you…
Celebrate health, wellness and community at the Vital Kitsilano Health & Wellness Fair this November 29th from 11AM-5PM. Vital Kitsilano Health & Wellness Fairs are a multi-generational community co-creation events that bring together like-minded and like-hearted souls to share in tasty food, wellness services, healthy, awesome vendors. They are still looking for awesome vendors for November. Interested? Email: healthfair@vitalhealthmedical.com
Whenever I go anywhere near Burnaby I always make a point of hitting up Cioffi’s Meat Market to restock my pantry with uber authentic Italian items such as San Marzano canned tomatoes, Arborio rice and olives. I’ve often grabbed a sandwich or one of there prepared items and some sort of meat was always on the menu that night for dinner. Recently the Cioffi’s opened a Cucina in the spot next store to the market at 4142 Hastings Street and I made a point of getting out there for lunch immediately. They’d always done some catering, but recently ramped it up volume…
