Dinners and Bar Takeovers at L’Abattoir for Vancouver Cocktail Week Many events have already sold out for Vancouver Cocktail Week, but if you act quickly, you can join L’Abattoir, one of Vancouver’s very best restaurants, complete with a stellar team of front and back house talent for one of two cocktail-paired dinners, a bar takeover…
VCC Foundation Annual Wine and Food Gala
Vancouver Community College (VCC) Foundation is excited to announce the return of Flourish After a two-year pause due to the pandemic, Flourish returns bigger and more delicious than ever — featuring elite wine tastings from Naramata Bench Wineries, local craft beers pairings, food designed and prepared by top local chefs, and music performed by leading…
Our Favourite Meal Kits for Healthy Eating
Meal Kits Help Make our Meals Healthier and More Sustainable When it comes to dinner decisions, we are always overwhelmed with the choices we have when grocery shopping and end up buying too many things, or items in portions that are too large, and we end up with leftovers that don’t always get eaten. Luckily…
Feast of Fortune Charity Gala 2023
Chef Lineup and Gifts of Fortune Announced for Scotiabank’s Feast of Fortune Charity Gala 2023 Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit by Supporting the Future of Health Care The Chinese Restaurant Awards will participate in Scotiabank’s Feast of Fortune Charity Gala at JW Marriott Parq Vancouver on February 11th, 2023. The chefs will create…
Il Centro’s East Van Beer Tasting Event
East Van Beer Tasting – Four Breweries Pour 16 Craft Brews Paired with Appie’s Calling all craft beer lovers! The East Van Beer Tasting event will feature four classic local breweries: Luppolo Brewing, Container Brewing, Powell Brewery, and East Van Brew Company; and provide each guest with an exclusive opportunity to try 16 different beers…
BC Ale Trail Launches Tasting Passports
BC Ale Trail Launches Five Tasting Passports Throughout Metro Vancouver Looking for an excuse to get out and try some great BC craft beer? During February beer lovers can collect stamps at up to sixty-four participating businesses for a chance to win fabulous prize packages along the BC Ale Trail in conjunction with Dine the…
Angel’s Envy Port-Finished Bourbon
Louisville Angel’s Envy Port-Finished Bourbon You might hear a bit more about bourbon this year as we’re heading to Louisville in October for the Les Dames d’Escoffier International conference and there’s research to do ahead of time. In preparation, we’ve been sampling the Louisville-based Angel’s Envy Port Finished Bourbon this month. Angel’s Envy is among…
Crypto Culinary Club
Crypto Culinary Club Announces First Opportunity for Membership Just when we thought crypto was dead, we just received news about the Crypto Culinary Club, a club that uses crypto as your membership token. Modelled on the Iron Chef concept of using unique and secret ingredients, Iron Chef Chairman Mark Dascascos’s son is behind the platform’s…
Bocuse d’Or Team Canada Wins 11th Place
Bocuse d’Or Team Canada wins 11th place at the world’s toughest chef competition After winning silver and their golden ticket to the world finals in France, today, our national culinary athletes to the Bocuse d’Or placed 11th, moving Canada up two places from the 13th position in 2019. Proud of their accomplishments, Chef Samuel Sirois,…
Asian Cookbooks for Lunar New Year
Asian Cookbooks to Expand Your Cooking Repertoire Start the new year with Asian cookbooks that will elevate your cooking skills and expand your recipe repertoire with Thai, Vietnamese, Korean and Taiwanese recipes. Written by Asian authors from all over the world, these cookbooks emphasize the joy of shared meals and gathering with family and loved…
Denmark Wins Bocuse d’Or 2023
Bocuse d’Or Gold to Denmark, Norway Silver, and Hungary Gold On 23rd January 2023, after two days of high-level competition, the victory of Denmark represented by Brian Mark Hansen and his commis Elisabeth Madsen closes the 19th Grand Final of the Bocuse d’Or, thus succeeding the French Davy Tissot, Bocuse d’Or 2021. The team from Norway,…
Vancouver Cocktail Week – The Alchemist magazine
Diageo World Class Canada Final During Vancouver Cocktail Week, March 5 to 11, 2023 After a spectacular inaugural event in 2022, Vancouver Cocktail Week presented by The Alchemist returns for a second round in March 2023. Tickets VCW 2022 featured sixty-five events over five days at some of the city’s most popular cocktail venues. In…
Chinatown BBQ Congee Bar Pop-Up
Fresh Ideas Start Here (FISH) and Top Chef Canada runner-up Deseree Lo launch Congee Bar at Chinatown BBQ on January 30, 2023 On Monday, January 30, 2023, British Columbia’s purveyor of boat-to-table sustainable seafood, Fresh Ideas Start Here (FISH) is launching a special one-day congee bar pop-up with FISH alumnae and Top Chef Canada season…
Cookbooks – The Woks of Life
The Woks of Life by Bill, Kaitlin, Judy, and Sarah Leung This is the story of a family as told through food. Judy, the mom, speaks about traditional Chinese dishes and cultural backstories. Bill, the dad, worked in his family’s Chinese restaurants and will walk you through how to make a glorious Cantonese Roast Duck….
Les Dames d’Escoffier Scholarships
Les Dames d’Escoffier BC Scholarship Applications Now Open Until February 13, 2023 As a past scholarship recipient and the current President of Les Dames d’Escoffier, I encourage you to apply for one of our Les Dames d’Escoffier BC Scholarships and up your skills this year! Effective immediately online applications are open to those who identify…
Wildlight Kitchen + Bar | Opening in Point Grey
Wildlight Kitchen + Bar to Showcase West Coast Cuisine, Opening February Fresh off the Culinary World Cup gold medal, Chef Warren Chow leads the kitchen of the new West Point Grey Wildlight Restaurant. The fresh, rugged spirit of the West Coast will be front and centre this February. This premium-casual concept will celebrate the diversity…
Fresh Prep and Anh and Chi Collab
Fresh Prep launches a limited-edition collaboration with Michelin Bib Gourmand restaurant Anh and Chi to celebrate Lunar New Year We have Fresh Prep Meal Kits delivered weekly as they solve what to have for dinner and I just added the Lemongrass Chicken to the January 25th order as January 18th is already sold out. Act…
The Lazy Gourmet Joins Compass Group Canada
The Lazy Gourmet team, founded by Canadian female culinary trailblazer Susan Mendelson, joins Compass Group Canada Compass Group Canada is the nation’s leading food service provider. The historic deal will see The Lazy Gourmet and its entire team of 130, join the food service leader to further the locally run business’ footprint in Metro Vancouver…
Celebrate the 21st Dine Out Vancouver Festival
Celebrate the 21st Dine Out Vancouver Festival Destination Vancouver celebrates their 21st Annual Dine Out Vancouver Festival from January 20th to February 5th. Taste the world across the city at more than 350 restaurants with delectable multi-course meals and unique culinary experiences. During a normally slow time of the year, the festival has become a…
The Best Cookbooks of 2022
Cookbooks You Need on Your Shelf from the Best Cookbooks of 2022 How does one proclaim that these are the best cookbooks of 2022, or even try to compete with that title in an SEO search without some absurd keywords that cater to the search engines and not necessarily the people reading this article? I…
