Prevail may be known best for his hip hop art as a member of Swollen Members, but he’s also the editor of PrevailPrevail, a guide to the good life, and contributes to Montecristo Magazine. You might find him hosting an event you attend as he hosts many around town including fundraisers and product launches, and he’s…
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President’s Choice Holiday Tastes
Counting down to holiday dinner and we see a few things missing from our table. We’ll be hitting up President’s Choice for a few last minute items so we can spend our time decking the halls and concentrating on that turkey! PC Black Label Pomegranate Lemon Sparkle for the non drinkers in our house…
Christmas Goodies Terra Breads
Not sure how you are doing in the last few days before Christmas, but we are feeling a little overwhelmed! There’s turkey to debone, a tree that needs decorating and a ton of cleaning that simply must occur before our guests arrive. So while I’m am whipping up some cookies today, I need some serious…
Pink Spatula Holiday Marshmallows
Hot chocolate will never be the same once you float one of Tina Bacon’s Pink Spatula decadent handcrafted marshmallow atop your mug! These pillowy soft treats are handcrafted in small batched with real ingredient such as fresh fruit, liqueurs and spices. Her Winter Marshmallow Collection includes Ginger Spice, with a of black pepper, Chocolate-Rippled Pomegranate, Peppermint and Toasted Coconut….
Atelier Micro Store Wild Sweets Holiday Hours
Wild Sweets® By Dominique & Cindy Duby beta version of its new and novel concept — The Atelier Micro-Store — acts as an extension of the Wild Sweets® By Dominique & Cindy Duby online Virtual Boutique. Local Metro Vancouver customers now have an opportunity to pick up not only items they have ordered online, but…
All I Want For Christmas With Fiona Forbes
Fiona Forbes, one of our favourite television personalities, just announced she’s hosting a new talk show, appropriately named, Fiona Forbes! It’s billed as “A 30-minute gabfest including a fun & casual personality-driven conversation, followed by candid panel commentary about headlines that are making waves in pop culture.” Look forward to insightful interviews with celebs and public…
Temper Pastry Stocking Stuffers
There’s still time to nip in to Temper Pastry where Chef Steven Hodge has gotten creative with his seasonal chocolate sculptures to capture the holidays. There’s an adorable Temper Reindeer, a Temper Snowman and Temper-style ‘Grinch’ Tree. Lots of exquisite chocolate boxes in all sizes and great stocking stuffers such as chocolate Candy-cane bark, a chocolate Santa boot,…
All I Want for Christmas With Natalie Langston
If you have Novus TV, you will have seen Natalie Langston on channel 4 hosting their most popular show, “City Lights,” an entertainment, lifestyle and events-based look at the city of Vancouver. She thrives on chasing down the next story and bringing out the lighter side. When she’s not covering the hottest events, hitting a red carpet…
Criollo’s Chocolate Liquers
Looking for a last minute stocking stuffer? Criollo’s dual pack of premium chocolate liquers are the perfect addition of pure liquid luxury. Criollo is a premium chocolate liqueur made with the rare Criollo cocoa bean. Criollo comes in Chocolate Raspberry Truffle as well as our favourtie of the two the Chocolate Sea Salted Caramel. Enjoy this amazing liquer…
A Better Life Foundation Funds Raised Go To End Hunger
Kudos to all that participated in the 24-hour famine to promote awareness and raise funds for food security in the DTES. On December 19th at 6pm over twenty stellar individual reported to Save On Meats and remained “lock in” until 6am. A full night of workshops were held to help solve food security issues in the community. While the…
Goh Ballet’s The Nutcracker Opens With ballet superstar Paloma Herrera
There’s still time to get festive and catch some holiday magic with The Nutcracker at The Centre For Performing Arts. On until December 22, The Goh Ballet stars superstar Paloma Herrera, principal dancer from the American Ballet Theatre in New York. She’s the magical Sugar Plum Fairy and her performance, alongside Dmitri Dovgoselets, a soloist from the Royal…
Morroco West Restaurant
Morocco West Restaurant popped up earlier this year in the West End just off Robson on Jervis. The team behind the venture, Chef Nourdine Majdoubi and Kevin Lin are a worldly crew, having worked in restaurants and hotels throughout Europe and Asia, and, now settled in Vancouver, have chosen to bring guesst a Moroccan experience with West Coast…
All I Want For Christmas With Steven Schelling
Steven Schelling is an inveterate fabulist. The editor-in-chief of PINQ.ca , he’s also a fashion and lifestyle writer for the Georgia Straight, Nuvo Magazine, Vancouver Magazine, Western Living, and whoever else is willing to contribute to the mortgage. His turn ons include long walks on the beach, historical fiction and talk, dark strangers. Thanks to…
All I Want for Christmas with Jeweliette’s Elsa Corsi
We are checking in with local personalities and how could we not include this beauty. Elsa Corsi is a jewellery designer and co-owner of Jeweliette Jewellry, with online shoppin and a location of Hornby Street. Corsi keeps us in sparkles throughout the year; you’ll often find me wearing her designs on special occasions and I own many…
Urbanspoon Releases Most Blogged
We just read through Urbanspoon’s most blogged about restaurant list for 2014 and were pleased to see many Vancouver spots on it. It seems our city has taken more than our fair share of the internet, but one has to remember that this is Urbanspoon, and Vancouver is a food blogger-filled city, so of course…
CONTEST CLOSED Epicure Holiday #Giveaway $300+ in Kitchenware and Spices
Congrats to Sean Neild on the win! Believe it! With Epicure you can make a holiday dinner in 60 minutes OR LESS and we’ve got a giveaway to help you with this easy peasy meal! See our full post on the dinner here. Epicure is a company who’s motto is “Good Food. Real Fast.”and products include a massive range…
Gifts From Vancouver’s Farmers Market #BuyLocal
There’s still time to put together some pretty awesome local-themed gift baskets when you visit this weekends Nat Bailey Winter Vancouver Farmer’s Market (10-2 pm Saturday). Why not grab some Copper Pot Preserves with their offers gourmet twist on old-fashioned homemade preserves such as jams, jellies and fruit relishes, using locally sourced berries and fruit, or…
Chef Dan Clapson’s Turkey Recipes
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 Dan Clapson as he has teamed up with President’s Choice for these great turkey recipes. Coconut Curry Turkey Pot Pie Ingredients…
Glenlivet Single Cask: Squadron 70
If you are a whisky lover, listen up. The Glenlivet is offering a once-in-a-lifetime experience available only to Scotch whisky lovers in Canada: the rare release of a one-of-a-kind, hand-selected single cask named The Glenlivet Single Cask: Squadron 70. This bottling is to honour the descendant of The Glenlivet’s founder George Smith: Captain John Gordon Smith…
All I Want For Christmas With Van Doren Chan
We are checking in with some of our favourite local personalities as to how they celebrate the holidays and what they wish for under the Christmas tree. The talented Van Doren Chan is the Sommelier at Vancouver’s top French Restaurant, Le Crocodile, and the owner of C’est la V production, an event planning and hospitality training company…
