After nearly four years of incredible success at our Granville Island Retail location, Edible British Columbia is opening a satellite store in downtown Vancouver’s historic Hudson Bay store.  On Saturday, November 7, 2009, EBC will open at HBC, with a mini retail space showcasing our top 100 products from across BC, plus some favourites from our brand new Edible Canada line.

Becoming a part of The Hudson Bay Company, especially leading into the Olympic Winter Games, is certainly an honour, according to Edible British Columbia founder and president, Eric Pateman.  “HBC is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and is one of the oldest in the world, incorporated in 1670. And with VANOC opening an Olympic Superstore in the downtown Vancouver Bay, the attention and traffic over the next year will be outstanding – not only for Edible BC, but for all the small artisan culinary producers that we’ll be highlighting.”

The Edible BC satellite store will be located on the food floor, beside the Nespresso Boutique.  The retail space will be staffed by The Bay employees, and while tours and events cannot be booked at this location, brochures and information about all of EBC’s culinary events will be available.  Shoppers will also be able to purchase EBC’s popular culinary gift baskets – perfect for the foodie on your list.

The EBC space also includes a full professional demo kitchen, where we will welcome ongoing tastings and demonstrations by local producers.  The confirmed schedule for the next few weeks is as follows (11am-3pm):

Saturday, November 7 – Little Miss Chief (Okanagan)
Saturday, November 14 – Aji Sauces (Fraser Valley)
Saturday, November 21 – 49 Degree Organic Sauces (Vancouver)
Saturday, November 28 – Fraser Valley Gourmet (Fraser Valley)
Saturday, December 5 – Nonna Pia Balsamic Reductions (Whistler)

About Edible British Columbia

Edible British Columbia is a four year-old business based in Vancouver BC, Canada.   The business is Canada’s largest culinary tourism and specialty (locavore) retail company with a successful store located in the Granville Island Public Market. In addition, Edible BC also has a large web based presence which drives the incredibly successful tour and event department, and online business. Our mission is simple – to introduce the public to BC’s culinary artisans. We provide both residents and visitors to BC with an opportunity to experience this province’s booming culinary scene.  Whether it be though our retail store at Granville Island, our culinary concierge service, our chef-guided market tours, our cooking classes, our gourmet kayaking trips, or one of our many other unique epicurean adventures, we want to satisfy people’s culinary appetites.