Known for its quality and prestige, champagne is adored by many. With its many styles, champagne is also one of the most versatile wines – all easily paired with a wide variety of foods. And a traditional Chinese ten-course dinner is one of our favorite cuisines to have with champagne! Together with Moët-Hennessy, Marquis Wine…
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Vancouver Ocean Wise Chowder Chowdown
Top Vancouver Chefs. Sustainable Chowders & Craft Beer. Come Cast Your Vote. Top Ocean Wise chefs compete head-to-head in for the title of 2015 Ocean Wise Chowder Chowdown Champion: Vancouver. Taste all the delectable original chowders, paired with local craft beer, and vote for your favourite, all in support of sustainable seafood. All proceeds directly support Ocean Wise,…
Halloween on Main Street
If you are looking for more treats than tricks this Halloween, The Cascade Room, The Union, El Camino’s and Charlie’s Little Italian are all featuring their Halloween promotions on Saturday, October 31 — with lots of delicios food & drink specials. Instagramers can also win by dressing up and snapping a picture with one of the restaurants’ scary…
GUY-FAWKES-TOBERFEST New Westminster Re-Up BBQ
GUY-FAWKES-TOBERFEST: A Fanciful Un-Holiday for the Late Autumn blues We love RE-Up BBQ and are saddened to hear that a member of their team is having some serious medical issues. BUT, you can help by atteding this feast and entering a meat draw with funds going to the family in need. At the Guy-Fawkes-toberfest Re-Up…
Taste of Yaletown
There’s still three more nights to enjoy Taste of Yaletown! We’ve checked out a few spots and there’s still time for you to do so! Featured menus, special tastings and innovative pairings abound! Either $25, $35, or $45. A portion of profits from each meal served during Taste of Yaletown is donated to The Greater Vancouver…
TEDxVancouver 2015
TEDxVancouver 2015 is coming! Saturday, November 14, 2015 Link to purchase tickets: http://tedxvancouver.com/countdown/ 9:00AM-5:30pm at the theatre at Rogers Arena 800 Griffiths Way Vancouver Tickets: $99.00 TEDxVancouver returns for its seventh edition and will be the largest TEDx event in the city’s history! This year’s theme is ID – a unique focus on the conceptions and realities…
October 21 – Restaurants for Change
It’s TODAY! Dine at JamJar, Burdock & Co and My Shanti and support healthy food and food security. Restaurants for Change supporting food security! Restaurants for Change is an annual fundraising event that brings together some of Canada’s best restaurants to create change in our food system. On October 21, 50+ of Canada’s best restaurants…
The Ultimate Lobster Experience Heads To Vancouver
We’ve partnered with Sam Adams to help spread the news about a series of tasty lobster dinners in Vancouver and Squamish! Chef Matt Dean Pettit of Toronto’s Rock Lobster Restaurants and cookbook author of THE GREAT LOBSTER COOKBOOK, in partnership with Samuel Adams beer, will be travelling to Vancouver, B.C., to collaborate with three talented…
THE ULTIMATE GIRLS WEEKEND AT THE 15TH ANNUAL WEST COAST WOMEN’S SHOW
Western Canada’s Largest Women’s Show The West Coast Women’s Show offers the Ultimate Girl’s Weekend, October 16, 17 & 18 at the TRADEX Trade & Exhibition Centre in Abbotsford. With more than 400 exhibiter booths, five stages and a variety of show specials and giveaways, the West Coast Women’s Show is Western Canada’s largest show…
TRANSFORMING FOOD WASTE WITH “UGLY DUCKLING” DINNER
#NOFOODWASTED: ACCLAIMED LOCAVORE CHEF DAVID GUNAWAN AIMS TO TRANSFORM FOOD WASTE, PERCEPTIONS WITH “UGLY DUCKLING” DINNERS Five-Course Menu Calls Attention to Sustainability Issues, “Trash Cooking” Concept by Showcasing Dishes Featuring Usually Overlooked, Often Discarded Offcuts and Outcasts Royal Dinette Chef/Owner David Gunawan’s waste-not, want-not culinary values come into focus this fall with a duo of Ugly Duckling…
Vancouver’s Sustenance Festival Brings Communities Together
From October 13-25, 2015 all around Vancouver, Vancouver’s Sustenance Festival Brings Communities Together Art, Culture, Food and Sustainability – As We Are, Together From October 13 until October 25, 2015 Vancouver’s Sustenance Festival focuses on making connections in your communities through a series of events focused on food preservation, gardening, and the right to food….
Sunday Der Brunch Oktoberfest
What better way to brunch than with beer, pretzels, and sausage during a German Harvest Haus Festival! General Admission includes: A four hour Oktoberfest-inspired seating, with access to the Harvest Haus Halle alongside hundreds of other autumn revelers Theatrical keg tapping opening ceremony, interludes and closing stage performances that immerses attendees in an interactive story of…
From Farms to Forks 6
A Growing Chefs! Harvest Kitchen Party on Sunday, October 4th at Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts@ Don’t miss this opportunity to support Growing Chefs all while enjoying delicious food and drinks at PICA! I love these kitchen parties and wouldn’t miss this! Hope to see you there. Tickets $200 Sunday, October 4, 2015 Pacific Institue of Culinary Arts…
CinCin Anniversary Menu
If you eat anywhere this weekend, make it CinCin as it’s the last weekend for their 25th Anniversary special commemorative menu. My friend Tess and I had an excellent and very tasty time trying this menu. I’d do it again in a flash and the price is a deal! It is a super romantic room too, so…
Les Dames d’Escoffier BC Honour Chef Lynn Crawford
October 17th, 2015 – Four Seasons Hotel, Vancouver It’s one of the most coveted culinary seats at a table in the city, a stunning long table for 100 guests (the city’s longest single table) and one of the most uniquely elegant dining experiences of the year. An annual event hosted by Les Dames d’Escoffier, BC…
Harvest Haus Octoberfest
Vancouver’s largest Volksfest returns for its succeeding year. Held under the Festzelte at Queen Elizabeth Plaza – Harvest Haus brings folklore from the 1st century to the Great White North. Combining modern fare with authentic European harvest traditions, gather your closest mates for the most gluttonous and gratifying weekends of the year! The crunch of fresh…
Slow Fish Dinner
Slow Fish Dinner with the Chefs Table Society Lovers of seafood and social times are to mark their calendars, as the Chefs’ Table Society‘s Slow Fish Canada Dinner returns at the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts (PICA) on September 27th, 2015. This annual event unites Vancouverites to gather and taste sustainable seafood in the most interactive way….
River District Farmers Market and Pie Contest
Guess what we are judging tomorrow! PIE. Come out to the 4th annual River District Farmers Market and check out the pies and more on Saturday Sept 26 from 10:00 a.m. Pie judging from 2:00 – 3:00 pm; find out which pies rise to the top. Top three winners will receive fantastic prizes! What to look for at…
River Market Salmon Slam
River Market Salmon Slam Saturday, September 26, 2015 – catch the Salmon showdown! Watch as Re-Up BBQ, Longtail and Wild Rice take their best chefs and splash in for the ultimate salmon showdown at the market. Each restaurant has been given free rein to prepare one dish using salmon as they wish. This event is…
Provence Restaurants Art of Allure and Human Connection
PROVENCE RESTAURANTS TAILORS THE ART OF ALLURE AND HUMAN CONNECTION FOR VANCOUVER WOMEN In recent years, Vancouver has been called “No Fun City,” “mind-numbingly boring,” and a difficult place to socialize, make friends, and date other singles, despite its population of over 600,000 people. Provence Restaurants believes it has the antidote to this lack of connection…
