Bite of the Rock 2012 White Rock’s Annual Restaurant Festival

Bite of the Rock Returns to Celebrate its 6th Year! Residents and visitors are invited to come out and ‘Taste the Flavours’ of White Rock.  Bite of the Rock returns for its 6th year showcasing local restaurants and dining experiences.  This year includes special waterfront hotel offers and live entertainment at most of the participating…

Chinese Restaurant Awards 2012 Awards Winners

Best of the Signature Dish Dining Festival:  1. Best Alberta Beef Dish:       Stewed Alberta Ox-tail with Red Wine Golden Swan Seafood Restaurant 5380 Victoria Drive, Vancouver (604-321-6621) 2. Best Alberta Pork Dish:       Dongpo Style Braised Alberta Pork with Amoy Sauce Shiang Garden Seafood Restaurant #2200-4540 No.3 Road, Richmond (604-273-8858) 3. Best Amoy Sauce…

Taste of eTap: Jan 20-Feb4

Three courses $29 From January 20th through the 4th only – enjoy your choice of featured appetizer, main course and dessert for just $29 plus tax and gratuity. Add beer pairing with each course – yes, beer with dessert is in fact fabulous – for an additional $15.  Your choice of feature menu items: Asian Vegetable and Green Salad   Enoki…

The Reef – Forget Johnny Depp – Start Your Own Rum Diary

The Reef Restaurant is launching their third annual Reef Rum Nights event.  Over seventeen weeks in January through to April, guests can experience seventeen different, top-shelf rums from around the globe for free. Started in 2010, the Reef Restaurant offers a unique tasting opportunity.  Complimentary tastings are available to all guests of legal drinking age…

Dine Around Abbotsford at Restaurant 62

Popular promotion runs January 16 to February 4 restaurant 62 is pleased to bring back its Dine Around Abbotsford dinner promotion for 20 days starting January 16th. The popular event gives diners a chance to enjoy a sensational three course meal at an award winning restaurant at a value price of just $30 per person. The dinner promotion…

Zagat Releases 2012 Vancouver Survey

Plus Victoria, Whistler & Okanagan Survey Zagat has released the results of the 2012 Vancouver Restaurants Survey. The new content, available at ZAGAT.com and via Zagat’s suite of mobile apps, covers 299 restaurants as reviewed by 2,255 local diners in the Vancouver area, as well as Vancouver Island, Victoria and Whistler. Highlights are as follows: Winners: Vancouver: Pear…

Van Houtte® introduces its Canada-wide ambassadors

Wendy Boys will represent the brand in British Columbia Van Houtte®, Master Roaster since 1919, is continuing its tradition of innovation and has chosen well-known personalities who will act as ambassadors of its brand. These ambassadors will represent Van Houtte® in four target provinces—British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec. “By acting as personalities for the…

Trafalgars Innovative Recycling Program

BUSY RESTAURANT AND BAKERY COMPLETELY ELIMINATE ORGANIC WASTE AND REDUCE GARBAGE BY 98%  Trafalgars Bistro and Sweet Obsession Cakes and Pastries are revolutionizing restaurant waste removal with a new, innovative recycling and composting program In only four months, by implementing an onsite, closed loop composting program, Vancouver’s Trafalgars Bistro and Sweet Obsession Cakes and Pastries have…

Campagnolo $28 Feast Van Menu

Help the Vancouver Inner City Back Pack Food Program by filling your belly at ROMA and other participating restaurants during FeastVan, which runs from Jan 20 – Feb 05, 2012. All you have to do is order our $28 prix fixe menu and we will donate $1 from every prix fixe lunch & dinner sold to the Vancouver Inner City…

Edible Canada Dine Out Vancouver

Fresh off being named one of the Westender’s Best 10 New Restaurants of 2011, Edible Canada at the Market is proud to be participating in our first ever Dine Out Vancouver. This year’s festival, the largest restaurant festival in Canada, takes place January 20-February 5, 2012. We’re also offering special pricing on our daily Granville…

News from YEW

It feels like just a few minutes ago we were diving into decadent holiday stollen and festive brunches with aplomb.  Dashing through the mall for that perfect gift and decking the halls with cocktails and Christmas trees.  Oh.. and it was fun. Alas, the harsh light of January’s New Year’s hopes and resolutions has dawned. Fear…

Dine Out Vancouver Glowbal Collection

January 20 – February 5 The GLOWBAL COLLECTION is proud to once again participate in Dine Out Vancouver, the city’s annual restaurant festival, January 20 to February 5. All seven restaurants within The GLOWBAL COLLECTION – glowbal, COAST, Sanafir, Italian Kitchen, Trattoria, SOCIETY and Black+Blue – will feature inspired three-course, prix fixe menus, indicative of…

Sequoia Dine Out Passport

Enjoy four unique menus & stunning locations during Dine Out Vancouver 2012 at the Sequoia Company of Restaurants. Collect stamps from each restaurant in your own Sequoia Passport when you join us for lunch or dinner from January 20th – February 9th.Visit all four locations and you’ll be entered to win 1 of 3 incredible grand prizes! Plus get fantastic…

Wine Club, Dine Out Vancouver & More – LIFT Jan 2012 e-News

Steve’s Wine Club From beginners to connoisseurs, all wine lovers have one thing in common – a desire to discover more. And as our Wine Director, resident Sommelier and grape aficionado Steve would say, “Learning about wine is about tasting and trying new tastes.” For a fun, interactive and unpretentious wine tasting experience, check out…

C RESTAURANT BRINGS FINE DINING TO THOSE WHO DINE OUT

$38 menu features local and sustainable seafood for a steal C Restaurant is offering guests a chance to experience fine dining for a fraction during Vancouver’s Dine Out event from January 20th to February 5th. Executive Chef Robert Clark and Chef de Cuisine Lee Humphries have created not just three, but four dishes for the…

Dineout Vancouver 2012

Eat your way through 17 days of culinary events, choose from hundreds of sensational restaurants and stay at a hotel at a fabulous rate. Let’s Eat! Resolutions can wait… reservations can’t! Hundreds of restaurants will be offering three-course dinners for $18, $28, or $38* per person paired with BC VQA wines or Kronenbourg beer. Make…

Wild Rice Year of the Dragon Dinner Jan 22 – Feb 4

SHARE THE GOOD LUCK AND GOOD FLAVOUR OF YEAR OF THE DRAGON DINNER Chinese New Year’s Eve, on Sunday, January 22nd, heralds the Year of the Dragon (lunar year 4710), a time when family and friends gather to celebrate with special meals the New Year’s opportunities and beginnings. Unlike in Western culture where dragons are…

Mangia e Bevi Ristorante BACIO Final Dinner

Mangia e Bevi Ristorante’s 5thannual charity event, BACIO, will take place throughout January 2012.  Mangia e Bevi will wind up the month with a special dinner and auction on January 31st. The popular West Vancouver restaurant will offer a three-course dinner menu for $40 featuring traditional Italian cuisine.  $10 from each order will be donated directly…

Mangia e Bevi Ristorante BACIO

Mangia e Bevi Ristorante’s 5thannual charity event, BACIO, will take place throughout January 2012.  The popular West Vancouver restaurant will offer a three-course dinner menu for $40 featuring traditional Italian cuisine.  $10 from each order will be donated directly to the Lions Gate Oncology Clinic and BC Children’s Hospital Oncology Research in support of important…

You Gotta Eat Here! premieres Friday, January 6 at 9pm ET/PT on Food Network Canada

FROM HALIFAX’S BEST LOBSTER ROLL TO THE TASTIEST BARBECUE IN ONTARIO Food Network Canada is embarking on a deliciously entertaining cross-country tour of the country’s best comfort foods.  In each half hour episode of the brand new Canadian original series You Gotta Eat Here!, food-obsessed funny man John Catucci (@JohnCatucci) takes viewers through the doors of…