Vancouver Events This Week
It’s here! Vancouver International Wine Festival and we’ll be reporting from the front lines this week. There’s still some tickets left for a few of the events including the tastings on Thursday and Friday night. Events available here. More on what to do this week including polenta and a Singaporean food pop up!
Indigenous Chefs Table At El Santo February 26, 2020
Join el Santo for Sous Chef Darrel Ahenakews exclusive six course tasting menu highlighting Indigenous cuisine. Dinner includes a complementary welcome cocktail and a six-course dinner for $75. Full beverage pairing available for an additional $45. Welcome at 6:30 pm, dinner at 7:00 pm. This event has limited space available. Please call or email to reserve your spot today at 604 553 1849 or info@elsanto.ca
Pica Kitchen Party at Vancouver Wine Festival February 29, 2020
“All great parties end in the kitchen.” Take a wine and food journey through the kitchens of PICA, featuring international wines matched with a small bite prepared by top Vancouver chefs, members of Chefs’ Table Society of BC. Each kitchen highlights a wine-and-food pairing, with the chef and winery principal sharing insights on what makes this pairing perfect.
Parking is available first-come, first-served at 1515 West 2nd Island Cove with nine spots on your left as your drive into the covered parking and a further 30 more parking spots located down one level in the underground. We strongly encourage you to take transit or a taxi, however.
Sponsored by Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts and the participating wineries
Featured wines:
Marqués de Riscal Rosato 2018 / PICA Students
Segura Viudas Gran Cuvée Reserva DO Cava NV / Say Mercy: Sean Reeve
Marisco Vineyards The King’s Thorn Pinot Gris 2018 / Pan Pacific Hotel: Sean Murray
Bodegas Juan Gil Kentia Albariño 2018 / Personal Chef: Jefferson Alvarez
Jackson Family Wines: Oregon Penner-Ash Willamette Pinot Noir 2017 / Wildebeest: Ian McHale
Angove Family Winemakers Warboys Single Vineyard McLaren Vale Grenache 2017 / Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts: Brian Luptak
Michael David Winery Petite Petit 2017 / Shangri-la Hotel: Ken Nakano
Ste. Michelle Wine Estates Cosmic Egg Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 / Autostrada: Lucais Syme
Bibik’s Singaporean Street Food Pop Up February 29, 2020
An evening of authentic Singaporean street food! Seats are limited to 35 max per session! Tickets are $28.00 for a mini 4 course tasting menu. TICKETS.
• Chilli Crab Dip – a sweet and savoury tomato-and-chilli-based sauce with crab meat served with french baguette. An iconic Singapore dish you can now easily dip into!
• Laksa – a spicy noodle soup popular in the Peranakan cuisine, consisting of rice noodles typically served with shrimp, fishcakes, egg, tofu puffs and our in-house sambal in a rich coconut broth!
• Ayam Merah – a casserole of chicken pieces in a spicy tomato base. Pieces of chicken are first fried to a golden brown and then slowly braised in a spicy tomato sauce. Served with a side of pineapple and cucumber achar (salsa) on top of rice with toasted coconut.
• Pulut Hitam – sweet dessert made from black glutinous rice with coconut milk and palm sugar.
Festa della Polenta’ Makes its Triumphant Return to Gastown’s Di Beppe Sunday, March 1 and throughout March
Gastown caffè and ristorante Di Beppe gives the polenta to the people once again when it presents its second-annual ‘Festa della Polenta‘ dinner and adds special features that showcase the versatility of the Italian culinary staple to the menu this March. The polenta showcase begins Sunday, March 1 at 6 p.m. as the ristorante hosts a multi-course, family style Festa della Polenta dinner with the main event being piping-hot pots of polenta poured ‘sulla spianatoia‘ (on a wooden board) atop communal tables and topped off with gourmet accompaniments such as braised veal osso buco in pomodoro, whole sea bream in vermouth cream, rapini with chili oil and wild mushrooms with roasted garlic, basil and red wine. For the month of March the kitchen team will also add rotating weekly polenta-focused features to the menu, including sepia al nero (traditional Venetian squid cooked in ink and tomato sauce) and more.
Bells and Whistles Adds ‘Question Authority Trivia’ to Sunday Night Movie Series Lineup Sundays, March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 — Trivia at 7 p.m., Movies at 9 p.m.
Fraserhood hangout and beer hall Bells and Whistles (3296 Fraser St.) introduces a new component to its ongoing Sunday Night Movie Series this March when it adds ‘Question Authority Trivia’ to the early lineup from 7 to 9 p.m. Hosted by local actor Sean Amsing a.k.a. @kaboomatomic, all Sunday night trivia sessions are free to attend, feature prizes and giveaways and involve general knowledge questions except for the last Sunday of the month, when the trivia questions will revolve around the movie to be shown that night. The ongoing Sunday Night Movie series continues this March with screenings of Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle (March 1), Dodgeball (March 8), Swingers (March 15), Semi-Pro (March 22) and Mean Girls (March 29). Every Sunday night, guests can enjoy free popcorn and take advantage of late happy hour specials from 10 p.m. to close that include $7 Negronis or glasses of Bench 1775 Pinot Gris or Lock & Worth Merlot and $5.50 draught beer, $5 classic hot dogs and $7 chili cheese dogs and Chicago dogs.
