Yaggers Kitsilano Presents Happy Halibut Pop Up – Fish & Chips At Lunch We have a contest to celebrate the opening! Head on over to Instagram to enter!!! View this post on Instagram GIVEAWAY! The Happy Halibut Grand Opening Giveaway! 🐟🌊 To celebrate the opening of @happy_halibut pop-up at Yagger’s Kitsilano, we are…
Where and What To Drink Right Now
Where Can You Celebrate Beer, Wine & Spirits We’ve got to make the best of this fall and wine, beer and spirits add to the celebration. Good Wine Gal and I sussed out a few good things coming up in and around Vancouver, on and offline! For more about what GWG is up to, check…
Good Wine Gal Wine Sessions
Wine Sessions With Mark Shipway Fall is here and school is back, in many different forms. Why not take the opportunity to learn more about our favourite subject, wine? Good Wine Gal, Barb Wild presents Wine Sessions with Vancouver’s top wine educator Mark Shipway. Twelve sessions will run from October 1st to Dec 17th. You…
White Spot and Triple O’s Launch Impossible Burger
September 19-20 $2 From Each Imposible Burger Sold Donated to Variety Club. Last night we checked out White Spot’s new veggie burgers and the texture and taste was the best semblance to the meat burger we’ve had yet. Go try one this weekend and you’ll be nurturing yourself and those that benefit from Variety Club….
MILA To Open In Chinatown
MILA Brings Plant-Based Dining To Chinatown News from MILA, a new spot opening in the old Juniper space. Vancouver residents can soon satisfy their culinary cravings when MILA opens in historic Chinatown in early September. Sister restaurant to the award-winning Virtuous Pie, whose vegan pizza and ice cream has captured hearts and taste buds citywide, MILA…
The Chickadee Room’s Daily Drink Features
Snacks and Drinks at The Chickadee Room The contact-free, ’80s-themed cocktail bar known as The Chickadee Room at Juke Fried Chicken is giving its guests more reasons to live each day to its fullest by adding new daily drink features and late-night happy hour and snack options to the menu at the Chinatown hotspot. The…
Kitchen Table Group Opens giovane café
Fairmont Pacific Rim’s giovane café Reopens Under the Kitchen Table Restaurant Group News from the Kitchen Table Group: Award-winning restaurant group Kitchen Table adds another member to its growing family (Ask For Luigi, Di Beppe, Farina a Legna, Pastificio di Luigi, Pizzeria Farina, Pourhouse) when it officially reopens the doors of giovane café in the…
Cassandra Cake Co.’s Cassandra Curtis
Cassandra Cake Co. When I saw Cassandra’s Curtis’ cakes and creations on Instagram, I immediately had to find out who this other Cassandra was. Cassandra’s are a rare bunch, it’s not like having a name like Karen or Wendy, where you’re bound to have another in your school class or at work, we aren’t really…
Great Bear Scallops Two Ways
Chef Karen Dar Woon’s Cured and Baked Great Bear Scallops My friend and fellow Les Dames d’Escoffier member, Karen Dar Woon, Your Secret Chef, and I had some fun with freshly harvested Great Bear Scallops from Coastal Shellfish. Dar Woon designed a recipe for both cured and baked (or BBQ’d) and I helped shuck, an…
Vancouver’s Dine OutSide Restaurant Offers and Menus
Dine OutSide = Over 160 restaurants participating in the summer-time food and drink celebration Patio season is in full swing and Dine OutSide is here to help you find the best spots and refreshing menus in the city! The complete list of Dine OutSide’s participating restaurants and their menus are now available on www.dineoutside.ca. With…
Beetbox Beach Bag Combo
West End’s Plant-based Beetbox Has Your Picnic Needs Covered News from Beetbox: Plant-based comfort-cuisine favourite Beetbox is keeping summer in full swing by introducing a new Beach Bag Combo, now available at the West End hotspot. Featuring a ready made, al-fresco feast for two, each combo offers picnickers, backpackers and beach-blanketers alike a choice of…
NOX – New Italian Restaurant in Downtown Vancouver
Duo Behind New West’s el Santo and Amaranthus Launches NOX Italian Restaurant in Downtown Vancouver NOX, a contemporary Italian restaurant with West Coast flavour, will be opening at the end of the year in Coal Harbour at West Georgia and Cardero. Created by Alejandro Diaz and Sam Fabbro, the owner-chef duo behind el Santo and…
Wild Salmon Celebration August 21-23, 2020
Support BC Restaurants During the 4th Wild Salmon Celebration The Chefs’ Table Society of BC (CTS) and the BC Salmon Marketing Council (BCSMC) are coming together from Friday, August 21 to Sunday, August 23rd for a celebration of the iconic BC product: wild salmon. Typically, a one-day Vancouver based event, this year due to COVID-19…
Beaucoup Bakery Launches Picnic Box
Beaucoup Bakery Boxes Up Sweet And Savoury Picnic Box August 15/16 and 22/23 News from Beaucoup Bakery that we can’t help but share…. and now we’re craving it all! Indulge in a quintet of buttery, flavourful pastries these next two August weekends as Beaucoup Bakery (2150 Fir Street) launches a new Picnic Brunch Box for…
Chef Vish Mayeker Beef Sirloin With Blueberry Jus
Beef Sirloin, Celeriac, Braised Kale and BC Blueberry Jus Chef Vish Mayeker has been cooking with BC Blueberry’s and we’re sharing this particular recipe for Beef Sirloin with Braised Kale and BC Blueberry Jus. Follow Chef Mayeker on Instagram for more recipes and techniques. Ingredients BC Blueberries Beef Sirloin Au Jus Cipollini Onions Morel Mushrooms…
Putting Vinho Verde Wines on Your Dinner Table
Vinho Verde Wines Pair Well With A Variety Of International Dishes Vinho Verde wines are finding their place on international tables, you will find them in some of the top restaurants around the world. The region’s new generation of winemakers are producing serious wines that are food friendly and can be found on wine lists…
Fresh Roots Schoolyard Harvest Dinner At Home
Fresh Roots Farms adapts annual fundraising dinner in the era of COVID-19 2020 Schoolyard Harvest Dinner At Home Edition promo, image supplied by Fresh Roots In the summer of social distancing, Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society has completely transformed its annual fundraising dinner with the Schoolyard Harvest Dinner At-Home Edition on Thursday, Aug. 13,…
Do Chay Yaletown Opens
Do Chay, a plant-based Vietnamese eatery opens second location We had an excellent meal at Do Chay’s first location and were pleased to here second location is opening closer to home. Here’s our coverage of the Kingsway location. GLV From the release: Do Chay Saigon Vegetarian has soft opened its second location. Located at 1269…
Yuwa Japanese Cuisines Adds Outdoor Patio
Intimate New Patio Offers Guests an Oasis in the Heart of Upper Kitsilano at Yuwa Japanese Yuwa Japanese Cuisine has now added a new outdoor patio that will allow guests to enjoy intimate-yet-distanced, al-fresco dinner experiences in the heart of Upper Kitsilano throughout the summer. The City of Vancouver’s Temporary Expedited Patio Program allowed Yuwa to incorporate a…
Angie Quaale’s BC Blueberry Lemon Loaf
BC Blueberry Lemon Loaf From Well Seasoned’s Chef Angie Quaale When you are out in the valley, you are going to want to stop in at Well Seasoned Gourmet Food Store at 20353 64 Avenue and pick up a thing or two for your home kitchen. Owner, Angie Quaale, sources sauces and spices from near…
