R&B Brewing Co. presents the Chef Series: a line of 650mL bottled beers that are designed to pair with food. Each beer is set to launch sequentially every six weeks over the summer and into the fall. R&B Brewing Co. head brewer Todd Graham invited chefs Chris Whittaker(Forage), Andrea Carlson (Burdock & Co.), Owen Lightly (Butter on the Endive), Robert Belcham(Campagnolo), and Brian Skinner (The Acorn) to develop their…
Green & Leafy Festival
The First Annual Green & Leafy Festival is happening this Thursday at the Yaletown Farmers Market, celebrating the abundance of in-season salad greens. The festival will feature a chef-guided tour of the market and its vendors with Chef Alvin Pillay. What: Green & Leafy Festival and Chef Tour with Alvin Pillay When: Thursday, May 29…
Foraging with Bill Jones in Tofino
Join reknown chef, author and mycologist Bill Jones as he leads you on a unique wild food experience. Enter the world of the forager; a bountiful forage food display, show and tell, and a delicious tapa brunch to top it all. In celebration of the release of the Deerholme Foraging Book, Bills class will…
Horseshoe Bay Craft Beer Festival
Head to Horeshoe Bay’s Breakwater at Sewells Marina on June 21, 2014 where 10 local breweries have been lined up for attendees to sip and sample through. Check out Howe Sound Brewing, Persephone Brewing Company, Bridge Brewing Company, Parallel 49 Brewing Company, Longwood Brewery, Deepcove Brewers & Distillers, Central City, Russell Brewing Company, Stanley Park…
Tofino Brewing Blond Ale
Headed down to Feast Tofino Dock Festival and grabbed a mug of Tofino Brewing Blonde Ale to cheer on the release of a rehabilitated octopus! Had it in a plastic cup which is by no means the best way to drink it, but it worked dockside and was less of a hazard if you happened…
Pizza Fabrika Opening Soon
Vancouver is oh so very pizza-obsessed so the Wiese borthers (founders of Davie Street’s La Brasserie) are smartly capitalizing on this trend, once again choosing a West End location, this time at Cardero and Bidwell. Fabrika, meaning factory will open mid-June and will present menu of a dozen or so traditionally-based pizza’s with the obligatory…
Tofino Brewing Tuff Session Ale
As they say, when in Rome! Our latest journey to the far west coast brought us to Tofino where Tofino Brewing rules the taps. Had to grab a growler of this Tuff Session Ale and will be going back for some bottles for the ride home. This sessionable ale (meaning lower in alcohol allowing you…
Get Your Prawn On at Provence Marinaside
We can’t seem to get enough BC Spot Prawns this year, perhaps because price issues have made them even more precious. However we’d rather eat less than none at all so we are allocating our food dollars accordingly and making room in our schedules for this tasty menu from Provence Marinaside. Chef’s BC Spot Prawn…
Craft Beer at Wildebeest
On Tuesday, June 3rd join Wildebeest in celebrating Vancouver Craft Beer Week with a six-course French-Canadian menu complete with accompanying paired pours from Quebec’s Le Trou du Diable, Dieu du Ciel, and Les Trois Mousquetaires microbrasseries. Brewmaster Isaac Tremblay of Le Trou du Diable will also be in attendance, giving guests the opportunity to indulge…
Tofino Grazing in the Gardens
The 12th Annual Grazing in the Gardens event welcomes a community of food and drink. The afternoon includes canapes by local chefs and island purveyors, paired with BC wines and island microbrews, carefully tucked away throughout 12 acres of the rainforest, in the Tofino Botanical Gardens. Live music with long time friend of the festival, Dinah…
Vancouver Foodster Goes Latin
Tour the city’s best Latin American restaurants on June 25 with your route planned by Vancouver Foodster. Each restaurant will be serving up special bites for hungry visitors; a variety of different Latin cuisines will be presented by some of Vancouver’s top chefs. From 6-9 pm that night hop on a bike, walk, bus or…
Comox By The Sea Shellfish and Seafood Celebration
I’ve attended this festival twice and absolutely love this day of seafood, chowder competitions, oysters and more! Gets better every year. Location: Filberg Lodge and Park – Comox, BC – TICKETS! Time: 12:00pm – 5:00pm Cost: $15 per person, children 10 and under free. Food tasting tickets $1.00 each. Celebrate the touch, tastes, and sounds…
Chef Robin and Swallow Tail Supper Club Celebrate MEAT!
Summer’s almost here and it’s time to celebrate with friends in Chef Robin at the Swallow Tail Supper Club’s garden! A few teasers from the menu: Chef Robin’s heather smoked bison ribs and blackened ping gai chicken, all prepared on her Jamaican drum smoker. This feast will be served buffet style and includes dessert. Bring…
La Pentola Famiglia Supper Series May 25
La Pentola’s Famiglia Supper Series continues this May with a delectable seafood dinner. Sunday, May 25th at 6pm dine family style at a communal table. For this 10+ course Italian feast Chef Lucais will feature Organic Ocean’s freshest seafood including spot prawns, pacific octopus, squid ink risotto, albacore tuna, ‘bottarga’, Haida Gwaii Halibut and more….
Blackbird Spot Prawn Feast 2.0
Missed out on the May 18th Blackbird’s spot prawn boil? Here’s another change to get your prawns on June 1, 2014. The Blackbird Public House & Oyster Bar & Driftwood Brewing present a second BC Spot Prawn Boil. They’ll boil them up traditionally and dump them out on the newspaper covered table in front of you….
Celebrate the Cowichan
JERICHO CAFÉ PRESENTS Our talented chef pal Stephen John Letts presents a pop-up Dinner on Monday May 26th and a more formal evening on May 27th at Foxglove Inn and Gardens in Crofton to celebrate the spring bounty of the Cowichan Valley. MENU $50.00 Plus Taxes Does not and Tip (BYOW) Possible variations of the…
Sunday BBQ with Big Lou’s at 33 Acres Brewery
What’s that? Beer and BBQ? Well it’s been done before, but certainly not as well as it will be with this particular beer and BBQ team starting May 25th, 2014. Last Sunday we saw Mark Urwin of 46 South Fish Co. shucking up Kaipara Oysters at 33 acres and sampled through all their current stellar beers and…
CONTEST CLOSED #Contest #Win 2 Tickets to May 28 The Cultch DVOTE
CONTEST CLOSED. DVOTE – Vision Impure (Vancouver) and Nova Dance (Toronto). At first glance dance artists Noam Gagnon and Nova Bhattacharya seem to come from completely different worlds, but a closer look reveals their shared passion for mining personal experience to create revealing and transcendent performances. DVOTE is their investigation into the dichotomies that separate devotion…
Cirque Returns to Vancouver With Totem
Cirque du Soleil has once again brought its circus talent to town under the hard-to-miss giant blue and yellow tent at Concord Pacific Place. The show begins with a human crystal ball descending from the ceiling into a tortoise shell filled with amphibian-like creatures that jump, flip and spin, setting the stage for another amazing…
Food Artisans of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands at Books to Cooks
Author Don Genova will be at Barbara Jo’s Books to Cooks to celebrate the publication of his book, Food Artisans of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. Don will be visiting from Vancouver Island to lead a salon discussion about the food artisans of these regions. It’s also a celebration the anniversary of Don and his wife who…
