Here There presents Sensory Cinema: Fantastic Mr. Fox, a tasty new way of experiencing the movies. Featuring award-winning chef Brian Skinner, best known for his culinary contribution to Vancouver’s vegetarian culinary scene with The Acorn, his recent Winter Supper Club series and collaboration dinner with Yotam Ottolenghi. Chef Skinner will be tailoring food and cocktails…
Roam – A Dinner Party
Here There is teaming up with Music on Main and the Juice Truck to present the first edition of Roam, a dinner party that pairs 3 live classical performances with a meal by chef Annabelle Choi. Imagine a musical happening unlike any other, in an unexpected environment and a menu designed for the classical performances carefully…
The VANCOUVER HOT CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL Returns for its 5th Year!
January 17 – February 14, 2015 We love this festival! City Food Magazine knows this city’s best chocolatiers, pastry shops, bakeries, gelato and ice cream shops and they have smartly partnered with them again for their annual Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival. From the release City Food tells us: WHAT’S NEW: New participants for 2015 include:…
Apple Cider sweetened with Xyla®
Brrr folks. It is January and it’s not getting any warmer anytime soon. After those days on the mountain, or just around the block, be sure to warm up with this delightful and healthier cider! Xyla®, is a natural sugar alternative made from North American hardwood, that looks and tastes just like sugar, and replaces…
One Night Only: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
There is still time to buy your tickets to Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo! The cross-dressing company apply breathtaking technical prowess to ridiculously re-interpreted ballets favourites, including Swan Lake and Paquita. Seating is now open in the Dress Circle and Balcony. These are great seats and are sure to sell quickly. Don’t miss Les…
Secret Speakeasy Dinner With Swallow Tail Supper Club
Great event that we participated in a few years back. Excellent evening with great company! The Main Event: Imagine you’re a guest in a 1930’s speakeasy, a funky Chinatown kitchen, or perhaps a secret hide-away in the jungle. This annual, secret speakeasy dinner will focus on Vancouver’s Chinatown. Chef Jamie Huynh of Hawksworth/Farmer’s Apprentice and Brooke…
Chef Brian Fowke and his Partners have sold Kitsilano Daily Kitchen
The following news release came from Kitsilano Daily Kitchen Today. After nearly five years at 1809 West 1st Avenue, Chef Brian Fowke and partners Derek Lew & Mike Edwards are pleased to announce the transition of 1809 West 1st Ave into the hands of a well-established food star in the Vancouver scene. A Top Chef…
Feast of Fortune 2015 | Support Mount Saint Joseph Hospital
Support the purchase of a new CT scanner for Mount Saint Joseph Hospital at Tapestry Foundation for Health Care‘s 2015 Scotiabank Feast of Fortune gala on Saturday, February 7, 2015. At a special pre-dinner reception, enjoy a sampling of signature dishes from six acclaimed Vancouver chefs, each a winner of the Chinese Restaurant Awards. Featuring…
Fable hosts a special dinner with Chef Dale Mackay
Well if it isn’t just one of our favourite chefs visiting one of our favourite local restaurants for a collaboration dinner! On Friday January 30th, Chef Dale Mackay will visit Fable Restaurant to create a five-course meal alongside the Fable’s Chef Trevor Bird Last year former Vancouver dweller Chef Mackay headed back to his hometown of Saskatoon to open Ayden…
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL TICKETS ON SALE JANUARY 6
It’s time to start thinking about which events you will attend for this year’s Wine Festival. Tickets go on sale Tuesday, January 6 at 9:30 a.m. for all public events at the 37th annual Vancouver international Wine Festival, presented by The Vancouver Sun. Forty-three events are available for wine lovers, including dinners with international vine…
Farm 2 Fork New “Pop-Up” Concept Opens
Resolve to eat better with Farm 2 Fork’s Pop Up from January 10th until February 2nd , 2015. Chef Nicolas Brandon Hipperson and Sous Chef Shahni Arshad are the creative team behind this project and they’ve developed a stellar menu full of uber-local products from local farms such as North Arm and Helmers. Farm 2 Fork will…
Street Food City Returns To Dine Out Vancouver Festival
Week-long street food pod dishes out daily specials, January 19 – 25, 2015 Street Food City, Vancouver’s original street food pod, returns for a week-long pop-up during Dine Out Vancouver Festival. Now in its fourth year, Street Food City will take place January 19 – 25, 2015 on the north plaza grounds of the Vancouver…
Hippie Garden Chips
If you’ve resolved to eat better in 2015, fear not, there’s a whole industry out there willing and ready to feed you the latest in “must have” health foods. While you are reading up on what to throw in your smoothie, and what is the ideal post-workout snack, you can rely on your common sense, and simply…
Nut-based Cheese Tasting at Graze Vegetarian
On January 11th, Graze is proud to present a Vancouver first – a cheese & wine tasting event featuring exclusively non-dairy, nut-based cheeses. The cheeses are developed in house at Graze Vegetarian by Chef Karen McAthy, from ancient cultures roqueforti and camemberti and b. Linens (used in brevi and Linburger style “smelly” cheeses) – cultures…
Lighten up in 2015 with Earls
Earls NON-ALCOHOLIC CRAFT SODAS Earls new non-alcoholic Craft Sodas are made with simple, pure ingredients. A fresh way to start the new year with unprocessed, natural ingredients and a great option from sweet soda pop or alcohol for the designated driver in your party this holiday season. This year Earls offers a selection of alcohol…
MEET THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE WINE AT VANWINEFEST
Vine stars from around the world will travel to Vancouver for the 37th annual Vancouver International Wine Festival, presented by The Vancouver Sun, February 20 to March 1. Each of the 170 wineries from the 14 participating countries will send a top-tier representative to the festival to present their wines. They’ll participate in educational seminars,…
Big Whites at Big White
Big Whites at Big White brings together fantastic food and wine from across the Okanagan. The event is a follow up to the hugely successful event ‘Big Reds’. This event showcases the best white wines produced in the Okanagan Valley and gives event goers the opportunity to taste the quality and individuality that comes from…
PuSh Festival is Coming
The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is one of Vancouver’s signature events and presents groundbreaking work in the live performing arts. Push 2015 starts January 20. The PuSh Festival expands the horizons of Vancouver artists and audiences with work that is visionary, genre-bending, multi-disciplined, startling and original. The Festival showcases acclaimed international, Canadian and local…
Fitness Fridays Long Walks and Blue Sky
Not sure how you did with your fitness goals over the holidays, but I am going to give myself a C+ in the category. I ended up pulling a muscle in my back, and got a throat infection, but I still got out for long walks almost everyday. Now that I am not hacking up…
Dine Out Vancouver 2015 Brunch Crawls
Care to try out a few new or different restaurants for brunch? During Vancouver’s Dine Out Festival Vancouver Foodster has put together six options throughout six different neighbourhoods. Grab your friends and stroll through Gastown, Commercial Drive, Kitsilano, The West End, Downtown or Main Street all while snacking on bites from participating restaurants. Come hungry! Gastown Brunch Crawl Date:…
