Some great food sampling, food demos, free yoga Sunday a.m. Get healthy this fall with @wholefoodsvan – GLV When: Saturday, September 14 and Sunday, September 15 from 10am-5pm Where: Whole Foods Market Robson: 1675 Robson Street What:Living Naturally Fair is our annual fair featuring fresh food, new dishes, and our favourite products! Live Music presented…
Category: Lower Mainland Events
Sharing Farm Canning Classes
Can you can? Head out to Richmond and learn from Good Girl Bad Girl Preserves! GLV The Sharing Farm (The Sharing Farm Society) produces food for the Richmond Food Bank and brings together people concerned about our local food systems and our communities. This season they’ll be hosting Sunday classes and they start this…
Steveston Sustainable Seafood Festival
Great way to spend a Saturday learning more about fish! Note Karen Barnaby is doing demos. GLV September 14 – Best Catch Sustainable Seafood Festival Celebrate the bounty of the ocean in the historic fishing village of Steveston, during the second annual Best Catch Sustainable Seafood Festival on Saturday, September 14. Hosted by the Gulf…
Il Palazzone Wine Dinner at CinCin
Save up your dollars if you are a fan of Brunellos for this decadent dinner! (it’s $400 but including reception, 5 courses, wine pairings, taxes and gratuity BUT 50% of proceeds will be donated to Stand Tall Education Network) – GLV PR – On Thursday, October 24th, CinCin will host one of the most exclusive wine dinners to be convened in…
Mollie Katzen at The Farmer’s Apprentice with Books to Cooks
I learned to cook with Mollie Katzen’s books! This event will be epic! I am there. GLV Mollie Katzen was the first celebrated cookbook author to cross our threshold at Books to Cooks, sixteen years ago. We were a mere three weeks old, not ready to host a grand event, but we made her lunch, and…
UBC Apple Festival October 19-20, 2013
A family event for all ages, the UBC Apple Festival celebrates one of British Columbia’s favourite fruits. From children learning about the diversity of apples to those who remember tasting heritage apples in their youth, the Apple Festival is a great opportunity to not only discover more about this delicious fruit, but have a whole…
Hawkers Market East Van Studios
Saturday September 28th Hawkers Market will be back at East Van Studios. Get tickets at hwkrsmrkt.eventbrite.ca Stay tuned for details and our lineup of Hawkers! Tickets $10 in Advance and $15 at the door.
14th Annual “Wine’d Up” Gourmet Dinner & Auction in Support of Whistler Search & Rescue
Whistler Search and Rescue Society (WSAR) will hold their 14th annual gourmet dinner and auction, “Wine’d Up”, on Saturday, October 19th, 2013 Attendees at this popular event will enjoy an evening of outstanding cuisine prepared by four of Whistler’s best chefs, plus a special appearance by the event’s founding chef, Chef Bernard Casavant. The five-course…
Parallel 49 Beer at The August Jack
We recently dined at The August Jack and want more! What better way to do so than a brewmaster dinner with one of our favourite very local breweries, Parallel 49 Brewing. Just hope we’re back from the Cowichan in time for this. GLV 4 course and 4 beers with Graham With. We’ve also hear that a…
Making Great Sausages – Sausage 101 with Well Seasoned
September 29 at Stuffer’s Supply – THE sausage making experts! Students will meet at Stuffer’s before 11 am. 22958 Fraser Highway Langley (just east of the Langley hospital on the south side of the street) Reno DeGianni brings years of experience and knowledge from traditional “Old World” methods of Italian sausage making. With his guidance and…
Festa Lidia – Meet Lidia Bastianich with Books to Cooks
Great Opportunity to meet THE Lidia Bastianich – GLV Monday, October 28, 2013 6:00pm – 9:00pm Italian Cultural Centre (map) 3075 Slocan Street Vancouver, B.C. Canada Celebrating Lidia is exactly what we plan to do tonight. This event will be held in centre of the Italian community, The Italian Cultural Centre. The Vancouver Opera will sing arias from Tosca,…
Cork and Keg Festival Set to Toast the Fraser Valley
Friday, September 20th, 2013 LANGLEY, BC: It’s not new news – residents of the Fraser Valley are spending more on wine, than beer, for the first time in three years. The craft beer industry may caution us in reading too much into the Liquor Distribution Branch’s statistics, as craft beer producers have grown in B.C….
Vancouver Designer Malene Grotrian Hosts Fundraising Fashion Event supporting OVCARE
BC’s Ovarian Cancer Research Team Event on Sept 24th 2013 launching her Fall/Winter 2013 Collection: “Collage” Presented by Malene Grotrian Design and hosted at the Montauk Gallery in Gastown, this glamorous and fun fashion event features a cocktail reception with delicious canapés and wines, special guests from the OVCARE Team, live music and entertainment by…
Steveston Beer Fest
October 5th @ 7:00PM to 9:30PM Steveston Beer Fest presented by O’Hares GastroPub and Liquor Store The first annual Steveston Beer Fest to be held at the historic Gulf of Georgia Cannery in Steveston. The net proceeds from this event will support the Richmond Christmas Fund. The Beer Fest will host approximately forty booths and will…
Smoking Sausage BBQ Competition Cook-off
Tasty Event Alert! DATE: Sunday, September 15, 2013 TIME: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM PLACE: Main Street and 7th Ave. (NW corner) Be proud! This Mount Pleasant Community event will let you: Raise money for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank See which D-Original Sausage Company sausage creation reigns supreme Crown the next Mount Pleasant BBQ Champion Mount Pleasant Restaurant Contestants…
Local Global, Vancouver – Dinner Party Stories
This is an excellent fundraiser and guess who’s hosting? GLV On Saturday, October 19, 2013 Social Bites is teaming up with Chimp and HomeDine to bring you a new kinda dinner party. Imagine Vancouverites all over the city opening their homes simultaneously to welcome diners in for a home cooked meal in support of their…
It’s All Greek To Me! Vancouver’s Original Greek Food Festival
September 20 – September 22 Hellenic Community Centre of Vancouver 4500 Arbutus Street, Vancouver, BC V6J4A2 Admission: Free Contact: Hellenic Community of Vancouver Phone: 604-266-7148 Visit Website | Send Email It’s All Greek To Me! Vancouver’s Original Greek Food Festival is making its move…outdoors! Now in its 36th Year, the festival will be a three-day outdoor event featuring the same…
Fraser Valley Food Show
Celebrate Oktoberfest with Sausage, Beer, and Master Chefs at the 6th Fraser Valley Food Show In its sixth year, the Fraser Valley Food Show on October 4, 5, and 6, 2013 celebrates its biggest year ever with the 2nd annual Great Canadian Sausage Making Competition, 11th annual Master Chef Competition, first ever Gluten Free Living Show, and the Lower Mainland’s favourite food personalities. At…
Chocolate Challenge
The Gourmet Warehouse is delighted to announce the second annual Chocolate Challenge in association with world-class chocolatiers Cacao Barry and Callebaut. The mouth-watering competition will be helping to sweeten up the lives of local children in the Downtown Eastside by raising funds for the Strathcona Community Centre Backpack Program, which delivers backpacks of food to deserving…
BC Beer Awards
The 4th Annual BC Beer Awards & Festival returns to Vancouver on Saturday, October 19, 2013 from 1-6pm at the Croatian Cultural Centre (3250 Commercial Drive). The signature consumer tasting event of BC Craft Beer Month, this festival celebrates the very best in craft brewing from across the province. A one-day only event, it features both…
