PC Insiders Make Entertaining Easy With This Seasons Must Try Products Each season the PC Insiders Collection selects “Must Try” Products, so we do what you would do if you were told you must try something, we try it. We head to the farmers markets for lots of our products, but it’s great to also…
Punchbowl Festival of Cocktails – Event Listing
Experience Cocktails, Live Music, and BBQ At The PNE Fairgrounds The producers of 24th Annual Hopscotch Festival have been working hard to develop their new summer festival and are proud to announce: PUNCHBOWL: A FESTIVAL OF COCKTAILS & BBQ. This outdoor summer tasting event will welcome over 3,000 Vancouverites who will be shown how to…
Haut Dogs at Provence
Haut Dogs At The Wiener Bar at Provence TWB – The Wine Bar While we missed the June event this year, Hot Dogs, Cool Bubbles at TWB –The Wine Bar, we are not going to make that mistake again and are heading to The Wiener Bar at 5 p.m. on Saturday, August 31 with Haut…
Go Blue on South Granville with BC Blueberries
BC Blueberries Feature On South Granville Calling all blueberry lovers! Prepare yourselves for South Granville’s first ever blueberry-themed event this summer: Go Blue on South Granville, happening from July 18th to 28th with BC Blueberries. Over the 10-day celebration, a number of South Granville’s restaurants will feature BC blueberries in special menu items. In addition,…
Fraser Common Farm Big Day BBQ – Event Listing
Fraser Common Farm and Glorious Organics Welcome Big Day BBQ We attended this last year and this was spectacular! Still a couple tickets left for tomorrow. TICKETS! Fraser Common Farm and Glorious Organics are excited to welcome Big Day BBQ to the farm for a day of food, fun and frolic on July 21, 2019!…
Fairmont Food Day Canada Menu – News Release
Food Day Canada Celebrated August 3rd Across Canada Fairmont Chateau Whistler executive sous chef Derek Bendig announced that his 2019 Food Day Canada (FDC) dinner will be comprised entirely of ingredients from the Whistler Farmer’s Market, located just steps from the hotel’s front doors and now he’s released the complete menu for the August 3,…
Fitness – Staying On Track
Tools To Keep You Moving Towards Your Fitness Goals It’s been a whirlwind couple of years and I’ve been in super good, average,and not so good shape; I’m an expert in losing, and gaining weight it seems! In 2017 I won a weight loss contest, ran a half marathon, got married and was super happy…
What’s Good This Week July 16 Edition
What To Do in and Around Vancouver This Week We’re well into July and we’ve still got lots of summer to-dos to check off the list. Don’t let the days slip away without creating some memories of your own. Here are a couple of ways to celebrate summer. Drink – Strongbow’s newly launched Rosé Apple Cider…
Do Chay Plant-Based Vietnamese Opens
Do Chay Opens Up In The Kingsway Corridor With Vegetarian And Vegan Fare Do Chay Saigon Vegetarian (1392 Kingsway) quietly opened its doors last month in Vancouver, and word quickly spread about this 32-seat, plant-based Vietnamese restaurant located in the middle of the Kingsway corridor. With street food dishes such as its popular Coconut Rice…
Downlow Chicken and Mister Ice Cream Team Up – News Release
Spicy, Cool Treats Popping Up From DL Chicken and Mister The Downlow Chicken Shack (DL Chicken) and Mister Artisan Ice Cream (Mister) team up for the ultimate hot ice cream throw down, dropping two exclusive ice cream sando flavours starting this Saturday, July 13, 2019 at DL Chicken (905 Commercial Drive). Fans can cool down…
What’s Good This Week July 11 Edition
What To Do In And Around Vancouver This Week It’s full on summer, even if the weather indicates otherwise, and once again Vancouver has so much to offer. Here’s a couple of things that popped up on our radar. Burb Pop-Up Burb, a BC-based cannabis retail and apparel brand, is hosting a Launch Party and…
Carnaval del Sol Vancouver
Pacific Northwest’s Largest Festival of Latin Culture – Carnaval del Sol What’s up for the weekend? We’re checking out Carnaval del Sol, the Pacific Northwest’s largest festival of Latin culture tomorrow, and maybe Sunday too, as it’s on both July 6th and 7th at Concord Pacific Place. This year’s theme “Sharing Our Indigenous and Afro-Latin…
Lost Horn Mediterranean Grill Opens in Kelowna
Restaurateur Peter Contos Opens Lost Horn Mediterranean Grill in West Kelowna Kelowna’s Westside has been rather limited when it comes to dining choices, but that has changed as The Lost Horn Mediterranean Grill just opened on Main Street. The Lost Horn offers a fast-casual approach to dining, focusing on quality, local ingredients wherever possible. Kelowna…
Verdi’s Macbeth in Vancouver
Blood, Guts and Betrayal: Heroic Opera presents Verdi’s Shakespearean Epic Opera, Macbeth After seeing Cinderella from Vancouver Opera this spring, we need more opera in our life so are excited to attend Macbeth! The ultimate story of ambition, murder, and betrayal, Verdi’s epic opera Macbeth is adapted from Shakespeare’s masterpiece. Verdi’s music is some of…
Tripping Out to Harrison In The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
Driving to Rowena’s Inn A Treat In The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV My husband Michael and I celebrated our two year anniversary in style with a trip out to Harrison Mills, and tested out the 2019 Mitsubishi Outlander Phev along the way. The Outlander is a plug-in hybrid electric, a combination that is very timely right…
H2 Rotisserie & Bar “Great Canadian BBQ” July 1, 2019
H2 Rotisserie & Bar Goes All Out For Canada Day How are you celebrating Canada Day? Things have been so busy around here that I’ve not planned much, but this appeared in my in box and definitely peaked my interest. I’ve eaten at H2 Rotisserie & Bar many times and their food and service has…
Provence Marinaside Lobster Month
Provence’s Chefs Present Lobster Many Ways Including a Lobster Boil on July 15 Who else loves lobster! It’s such a treat and here’s your chance to try it many ways at Provence Marinaside in Yaletown at the foot of Davie Street. We recently had a delicious family brunch here, and a lunch and learn with…
Coquille Seafood Seafood Sessions
Happy Hour is Happier Now That Coquille Seafood Hosts Seafood Sessions Thursday afternoon happy hour at Coquille Seafood in Gastown is where you need to be! You’ll find a variety of guest presenters each week featuring Ocean Wise seafood and teaching you a little something about their unique fares. We’ve been to two already, and…
Groundswell Test Market At Granville Island
Alternative Business School Graduates From Groundswell Present Their Fares In Granville Island Luckily for me, I’m on Facebook (give me a like, won’t you?) and often pay attention to the events that are suggested to me, as I procrastinate on the work I need to do. Yesterday, up popped the Groundswell Test Market At Granville…
Vancouver Community College’s Culinary Arts – VCC’s The Chef’s Table
Vancouver Community College’s Culinary Arts Students Present Dinner At VCC’s Chef’s Table What a delightful evening we had, full of delicious food at the Vancouver Community College. The VCC Culinary Arts Students, under the guidance or Chef Hamid Salimian, cook dinner three nights a week during the summer, up until July 17 at the VCC’s…
