A Few Questions For Chef Lorenzo Loseto – Competitor In Gold Medal Plates, Kelowna The Canadian Culinary Championships will take place this weekend in Kelowna, BC February 2-3, 2018. The eleven competing chefs will be aiming for gold as they compete in three events over two days testing their skills, creativity and endurance. We had a…
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Chef Barry Mooney From Gio, Nova Scotia Heads To The Gold Medal Plates
A Few Questions For Chef Barry Moon – Competitor In Gold Medal Plates The Canadian Culinary Championships will take place this weekend in Kelowna, BC February 2-3, 2018. The eleven competing chefs will be aiming for gold as they compete in three events over two days testing their skills, creativity and endurance. We had a few question…
Dine Out Vancouver Just $20 At Bimini’s Pub
Kitslilano’s Bimini’s Pub Overs Dinners Great Value Named after the Bimini Islands in the Bahamas, Bimini’s first opened its doors in 1974 after being granted the Province’s first Neighborhood Pub license. The busy bar was quickly embraced by the post Summer of Love-era hippie locals; environmental agency Greenpeace’s head office was across the street, and…
H Tasting Lounge at The Westin Bayshore
Tribute to Howard Hughes Opens at The Westin Bayshore Howard Hughes spent some time a the Westin Bayshore, and while it’s rumoured he stayed mainly hold up in his room, we figure if he was in the right mind space at the time, he would have really enjoyed the lounge named for him. HJU:Z is…
Gotham Steakhouse & Bar Updates Its Lunch Menu
Gotham Steakhouse adds delicious new dishes and fresh ingredients I remember going to Gotham Steakhouse for after work drinks after the stock market closed and had many decadent business lunches here back in my finance days, but hadn’t been in for a while. The new menu was a great excuse to remedy this, so we…
Get Happy At Dockside – New Happy Hour Menu
Happy Hour Features at Dockside Restaurant Seven Days a Week We stopped in to try the new fall menu at Dockside in October and loved the lamb shank pictured above, as well as many other dishes, and also returned in November on our way to Vancouver Theatresports for pre-theatre snacks including flatbread and calamari. The…
Mara Jernigan Joins Summerhill Pyramid Winery
Summerhill Pyramid Winery Add Culinary Talent To The Team We just returned from the Okanagan, and didn’t get a chance to visit Summerhill Pyramid Winery this trip, but once we read our email this morning and received news that Chef Mara Jernigan has joined the winery, we are certainly going to make sure we get…
Nutcracker Tea At Trump Champagne Lounge
Creative Pastries, Scones and Fancy Sandwiches at the Nutcracker Tea at Trump While Toronto has changed the name of it’s Trump Hotel, Vancouver’s Arthur Erickson-designed 63-storey tour still bears the controversial name. It was developed, Holborn Group, and not run by the Trump family, so, despite my extreme dislike for Trump and his “policies and views”,,…
Prospect Point Cafe In Stanley Park
Stanley Park Classic Gets A Makeover One rainy Vancouver day not so long ago, we headed into Stanley Park to check out the renovations and menu updates at the Prospect Point Cafe. I had actually never eaten at the cafe, having assumed that it was one of those touristy trap type restaurants, and apparently I…
New Urban Eatery Opens at Cadillac Fairview Pacific Centre
New Urban Eatery provides guests with healthy food offerings, a contemporary space and introduces online pickup service I missed the official opening of this Urban Eatery, but I’m sure my holiday shopping will take me in the vicinity at some point! I initially thought this was a new restaurant, but it turns out it’s the…
Tricks and Treats in Surrey
Scare Up Some Fun in Surrey This Fall Before All Hallows Eve, you’ve still got time to head out to the farms in Surrey and pick a pumpkin or two, take a ride out to the patch and pick up some delicious veggies for a monstrous feast; there’s even a haunted house or two if…
Gold Medal Plates 2017 – Chef Jeff Park Salted Vine in Squamish
Checking In With Chef Jeff Park Just Before Victoria’s Culinary Championships Chef Jeff Park weighs in on our interview questions. Great restaurant, we visited this summer in Squamish! Tell us a little bit about your restaurant and/or style of cooking. The Salted Vine’s menu focuses on small share plates that place a premium on fresh,…
Gold Medal Plates Victoria 2017 – Chef Lisa Ahier – Sobo in Tofino
Checking In With Chef Lisa Ahier Before Victoria’s Culinary Championships Chef Lisa Ahier hails from Tofino and is the absolute real thing. She can be found, when not in the kitchen, out kayaking and foraging and I’d join her anytime in any of these pursuits! Superstar chef, so down to earth. We must get back…
Gold Medal Plates Victoria 2017 – Chef Andrea Carlson From Burdock Restaurant
Checking In With Chef Andrea Carlson Before Victoria’s Culinary Championships Tell us a little bit about your restaurant and/or style of cooking. Burdock & Co seeks inspiration from British Columbia’s tangle of islands and coastlines, sourcing ingredients from local growers, farmers and foragers and presenting them in a fluid culinary experience. In May 2013, Andrea…
Gold Medal Plates Victoria 2017 – Chef Alex Chen Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar
Checking In With Chef Alex Chen Before Victoria’s Culinary Championships Tell us a little bit about your restaurant and/or style of cooking. At Boulevard, I draw upon my personal experiences, my childhood memories of cooking with my family, and of course my training with some amazing chefs throughout the Pacific Rim and West Coast. These experiences all influenced…
Gold Medal Plates Victoria 2017 – Chef Clement Chan From Torafuku
Checking In With Chef Clement Chan Before Victoria’s Culinary Championships Who doesn’t love Torafuku and the whole team behind this project! Can’t wait to give them all some hugs and high fives and wish them the best at Gold Medal Plates. Thanks Clement Chan and crew for all you do! Tell us a little bit…
Gold Medal Plates Victoria 2017 – Chef Rob Cassels From Saveur Restaurant
Checking In With Chef Rob Cassels Before Victoria’s Culinary Championship Tell us a little bit about your restaurant and/or style of cooking. Saveur is a small, 30 seat restaurant in the Chinatown district in Victoria. We specialize in Five Course Tasting Menus, one Chef’s and one Vegetarian which change regularly according to what is available…
Gold Medal Plates Victoria 2017 – Chef Castro Boateng From House of Boateng
Checking in with Chef Castro Boateng Before Victoria’s Culinary Championships We met Chef Castro Boateng last year at Gold Medal Plates and look forward to trying his dish again tomorrow night at the competition, especially since there is Bartier Brothers Merlot on hand! Here’s his answers to this year’s interview questions. Tell us a little…
Gold Medal Plates Victoria 2017 – Chris Remington The Hooded Merganser
Checking in with Chef Chris Remington Before Victoria’s Culinary Championships I’ve had the luck of meeting Chef Chris Remington a number of time and he’s even taken us out to the restaurant’s farm in Penticton. Chef Remington is at the Penticton Lakeside Resort at the Hooded Merganser Restaurant and he’s competing this year in Gold…
Gold Medal Plates Victoria 2017 – Chef Ryan Zuvich of Hilltop Bistro
Checking in with Ryan Zuvich of Hilltop Bistro Before Victoria’s Culinary Championships Each year I interview the chefs competing in Gold Medal Plates and here we go again! Can’t wait to see them all next week in Victoria! Thanks Ryan Zuvich for being the first to answer. Tell us a little bit about your restaurant…
