Japanese Cuisine at Yuwa Is Back Great news from one of our favourite sushi spots and just down the road. Excellent sake selection here and they’re featuring those spot prawns! GLV Award-Winning Kitsilano Restaurant Reopens Six Days a Week with Expanded Health and Safety Protocols, Father’s Day Weekend Features in Place After more than three…
Chickadee Cocktail Bar Concept Pop Up
Choose Your Own Cocktail Adventure – New Cocktail Bar Concept “Chickadee” Take Flight Very cool news this a.m. from our friends at Juke Fried Chicken, a new pop up in response to the need for spacing out in restaurants. GLV First-of-its-Kind, Reduced-Contact Experience Pops Up in Juke Fried Chicken in Vancouver’s Chinatown An exciting new…
Weekly Wine Round Up
What’s Up In The Wine World This Week Here’s our round up of what’s on our radar for wine. Good Wine Gal, Barb Wild and I (Cassandra) will curate this weekly list, so feel free to email us with suggestions of what to include. We’ll add to during the week as time permits. Update from…
Cibo Trattoria, Uva Wine and Cocktail Bar’s New Chef Jesse Zuber
Downtown Hotspots Unveil New Menus for Dine-In, Takeout and Delivery – Cibo and Uva Well this is good news! We are excited to see Chef Jesse Zuber back in Vancouver and look forward to checking out Uva and Cibo soon. From the announcement: Cibo Trattoria and UVA Wine & Cocktail Bar are marking the gradual…
Hawksworth Restaurant Reopens for Dine-In Service
Hawksworth’s Restaurant Is Open Again Over the past weeks, Hawksworth’s crew has been hard at work trialing new menu items and is now open for dining in safely with a completely new menu concept. From the announcement: Hawksworth Restaurant reopened its doors this Saturday, June 6 and returned to its roots – bringing classic dishes…
Organic Ocean Donates 100 lbs Of Spot Prawns
Organic Ocean Donated 100 lbs of spot prawns to the LunchLAB: Chefs for Families Program We are so grateful for all doing their part to support those in need in our community. Organic Ocean has once again stepped up and is providing spot prawns to the LunchLAB program to make a nutritional bowl of spot…
Provence Marinaside’s Spot Prawn Features
Provence Marinaside Serves Up BC Spot Prawns It’s Spot Prawn season and Provence Marinaside’s Owner/Executive Chef Jean Francis Quaglia treats BC Spot Prawns with a gentle hand to bring out all their delicate flavour. Their BC Spot Prawn Menu features Gazpacho with Poached BC Spot Prawns served with a cucumber and lime relish, One Pound…
Good Wine Gal’s Guide to Port
The Essential Wine Lover’s Guide to Port This week is the beginning of Good Wine Gal’s amazing series about one of the most versatile wine styles, Port. “The Essential Wine Lover’s Guide to Port” highlights Ruby, Late Bottled Vintage, Tawny, White, Pink, Single Quinta & Vintage and Colhieta Port. There are four interactive sessions. Good…
Provence Marinaside Now Open For Dine-In
What’s new this week at Provence Marinaside Great news from Provence Marinaside today as they’ve re-opened for dine-in service and they’ve spelled out precisely how they are keep guests and employees safe. They’re also doing takeout, French Food Made Easy cook at home kits, and their cocktail kits. We’ve sampled both and we would definitely…
Tojo’s Dining Room Reopens with Spot Prawn Season Right Around the Corner
Tojo’s Dining Room Presents the Noble BC Spot Prawn Make the most of this short but sweet season at Tojo’s! It’s been far too long since we visited. News from Tojo’s today! Spring brings us one of BC’s most celebrated ingredients – Spot Prawns. This year Tojo’s will be offering a special Spot Prawn Omakase…
Weekly Wine Round UP
What’s Up In The Wine World This Week Here’s our round up of what’s on our radar for wine. Good Wine Gal, Barb Wild and I will curate this weekly list, so feel free to email us with suggestions of what to include. We’ll add to during the week as time permits. Support BC Local…
¿CóMO? Taperia Reopens Doors As Tapas Bar, Wine Store, And Market
¿CóMO? Taperia Reopens Some more opening news from East Van’s ¿CóMO? Taperia. All the best on your new adventures crew! GLV Announcement: Things may look a bit different when ¿CóMO? Taperia (201 E 7th Ave) reopens its doors, but the team is staying true to their roots as an authentic destination for all things Spain. Starting…
Nuba Restaurants Re-Open Gastown and Mount Pleasant
Nuba Re-Open Two Locations For Dine-In It’s happening slowly and safely. Here’s some news from one of our favourite spots, Nuba Mount Pleasant and Gastown opens. Local Middle Eastern cuisine favourite Nuba are open for dine-in service at their Mount Pleasant location (146 East 3rd Avenue) and Gastown location (207 West Hastings Street). Open at…
L’Abattoir Re-Opening May 29th
L’Abattoir Owner and Chef Lee Cooper Announces Dine-In Dinner Service Thanks to L’Abattoir for this news today. We’re trying to spread the news on our wonderful local restaurants again, as our thoughts are with all our friends in the hospitality industry. Please support your independent businesses. GLV From their announcement: After making the difficult decision…
St. Lawrence Re-Introduces Dine-In Service Starting May 28th
Dine-In at St. Lawrence Or Grab Some Of Their Popular Take-Out We’ve been trusting our dining experience to J-C Poirier and his team for at least a decade, so look forward to visiting safely soon. They’ve opened up reservations and Dine-In and Take-Out is open Wednesday through Sunday. Our thoughts are with all our friends…
Wine Wednesday Round Up
What’s Up In The Wine World This Week We’ve decided to do a round up of what’s going on in wine in and around the city, province, country or world, depending what lands on our radar. Good Wine Gal, Barb Wild and I will curate this weekly list, so feel free to email us with…
Walter Craft Caesar Fundraiser
Walter National Caesar Day With Funds To Second Harvest With our social circles smaller, the month of May is looking and feeling different than usual for most. However, there are still classic customs that we can embrace to celebrate warmer weather, and each other. On Thursday, May 14 Canadian made favourite, Walter Craft Caesar and …
Provence Marinaside National Caesar Day
Provence Marinaside Celebrates Caesar Day With A Contest Some news about a great Caesar Cocktail Kit from our friends at Province Marinaside! GLV May 14, the Ides of May, is a much more auspicious day than the Ides of March were for the historical Caesar. This year May 14th is National Caesar Day, the day…
Odd Society Spirits Mother’s Day Chocolate and Cocktail Kits
Odd Society, Drunk Chocolatier and Mixers and Elixirs Mix It Up For Mother’s Day Last Minute Mother’s Day gift alert! Available Saturday May 8th until 6 pm at Odd Society Spirits 1725 Powell Street and tomorrow at Kitsilano and Riley Park Farmers Markets! Odd Society Spirits (1725 Powell St., Vancouver), has launched a new online…
BC Wine Wednesday With Good Wine Gal
Barb Wild and Mark Shipway Bring You BC Wine Wednesday Starting May 13, 2020 Now here’s an invitation that I will accept. BC Wine Wednesday with two of our great local wine teachers. Barb Wild’s latest news! – GLV Check out The Good Wine Gal site, and her previous picks here. Are you going to miss your…
