What’s Up In Vancouver For Thanksgiving Celebrations We couldn’t let our favourite time of year go by without a couple of recommendations for y’all. What to do for Vancouver Thanksgiving? Suggests include Five Sails, Joe Fortes, H Tasting Lounge, Nightingale and more. Celebrate Thanksgiving Dinner this year at Dockside Restaurant Enjoy delicious turkey and fixings with none of the prep and cleanup While travel distances may be shorter, and the groups gathering are smaller, Thanksgiving will again be a momentous time to celebrate our blessings with family and friends. To help make the weekend delicious, Dockside Restaurant will be cooking…
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Chefs, restaurants, and farmers support Growing Chefs food literacy with the From Farms to Forks Food Series Growing Chefs releases tickets for their 11th annual event, and things will look a little different this year due to COVID-19 From our friends at Growing Chefs! Something delicious this way comes… The event we’ve all been waiting for. It’s… From Farms to Forks Eleven! Support Growing Chefs, local restaurants, and BC food producers. Make new friends, drink good wine, and eat delicious food… all from the comfort of your own home. On October 18th, 2020 Growing Chefs will kick off their 11th annual…
Tasty Reasons to Visit the Fairmont Chateau Whistler News from our friends at Fairmont Chateau Whistler came into our inbox and we had to share – GLV Executive Chef Isabel Chung and her culinary brigade at Fairmont Chateau Whistler have been busy creating an abundance of tasty and tantalizing reasons to visit Whistler this fall. OKTOBERFEST AT FAIRMONT To celebrate Oktoberfest, Fairmont Chateau Whistler has introduced a new 3-course Bavarian BBQ on its beautiful rooftop terrace, where family-style dining meets spectacular mountain vistas. This relaxed and welcoming dinner takes place at the covered and heated Woodlands Rooftop restaurant and features…
Mt. Boucherie – The Boo & the Who of it! Good Wine Gal Catches Up with Mt. Boucherie Winery! Join in for this Wine Wednesday to learn more about the winery and what’s new at Mt Boo! October 7, 2020 5:30 pm. Sign up here. The more things change the more they stay the same. I’m talking about quality – specifically the quality of wine coming from Mt. Boucherie. You may think that change has only been facing us in the last 6 months, but at Mt. Boo (pet name), I would say ever since Jesse Harnden arrived, it’s been…
Food and Drink News for This Week Here’s your weekly dose of Good Life Vancouver Recommendations for Vancouver Events in and around the city sourced from press releases, random Instagram scrolling and things I saw when I venture (carefully) out onto the streets. Hope you enjoy this new series! Tips to cassandra at goodlifevancouver.com. Beta5 Chocolates Celebrates 9 Years They’re sold out of their birthday packs, cream puffs, and bars, but Beta5 still has some chocolate bars in stock for their birthday celebrations. SALTED CARAMEL POLYGON BAR is a 56% dark milk chocolate bar that filled with pockets of creamy…
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 giving away lunch for four people with beers! 🧡🍻 @yaggerskits How to enter: 1. LIKE this post 2. Tag your 3 best friends who you want to have an epic lunch with. 3. Follow @goodlifevan and @happy_halibut 4. Share this post to your IG story…
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 out her website here. https://www.goodwinegal.ca/ Sommcom and National Geographic In what looks to be an a visually stimulating and exotic experience Sommcom has partnered with National Geographic to offer a “unique region of the world” of wine. It’s Virtual Summit Series is an amazing learning…
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 can find all on https://goodwinegal.ca “online wine sessions”. Or REGISTER here. First up it’s all about grapes with Three Great Grape Sessions, Four Italian Red Wine Sessions and then Five French Red Wine sessions. Pick one or pick all! There’s now two Time Zones -…
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. GIVEAWAY White Spot and Triple O’s will also be giving away a total of 1,000 FREE Impossible™ Burgers — hungry burger lovers are invited to enter the giveaway via whitespot.ca/contest and tripleos.com/contest. From the release: Beloved BC restaurant chains White Spot and Triple O’s are reaffirming their 92-year-strong commitment to…
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 is an internationally inspired haven full of flavourful plant-based fare. Whether you’re raising your glass in a Cheers!, ¡Salud! or Bon Apétit!, MILA transcends borders and cultures to capture the universal excitement, warmth and connection of dining together – all while serving tantalizing food whose…
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 new daily drink features come from the creative minds of Bar Manager Sabrine Dhaliwal and Lily Duong and offer an array of rotating classic and contemporary cocktails for special prices from 5 p.m. to close Tuesdays through Sundays. From the aeronautically inspired sippers of ‘Top…
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 Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel, Friday, August 28. Operating as a pop-up until the current climate stabilizes and Kitchen Table is able to renovate and unveil a reimagined concept, the new iteration of giovane offers a multifaceted space featuring a café, market and counter-service restaurant that will also…
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 that common. In Greek Mythology Apollo the Sun God gave Cassandra the power to foresee the future in the hope that she’d return his love, but when she didn’t, he cursed her to never be believed, or, in other stories, that she could only foresee…
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 entirely new experience for me. These scallops are fabulous and pretty much the tastiest thing I’ve tried this summer. Is Coastal Shellfish First Nations–owned? – Yes, the Coastal First Nations created Coastal Shellfish to help achieve their goals of economic self-sufficiency and sustainable jobs. Our…
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 over 160 dining options, there will be no shortage of ways to enjoy the summer sunshine in Vancouver! Prix fixe menus are available at $15, $25, $35 or $45 price points, as well as special promotional offers and picnic-to-go packs. Dine OutSide restaurant choices span…
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 two sandwiches (the Burger with Cheeze or Classic Chick-Un Sandwich), two hot sides (excluding Chili Cheese Fries) and two bottled or canned beverages (including alcoholic and zero-proof selections) all packed and ready to go in a custom Beetbox tote to keep for $51 plus tax. Offered…
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 Amaranthus in New Westminster, this new eatery will offer a West Coast take on Italian cuisine with a strong emphasis on local and seasonal ingredients. “As a second-generation Italian immigrant who grew up on the West Coast, I wanted to create a restaurant that captures…
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 restrictions there is a new format for the celebration with 10 participating chefs and restaurants in communities around the province. Pictures from last year’s Wild Salmon Celebration below. Typically, the 200 in-person event takes place on one night in Vancouver but with COVID-19 event restrictions …
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 two. The set includes both sweet and savoury creations by chef and co-owner Betty Hung and features a Maple Ham Cheese Scroll, Croque Madam Bun, Strawberry Brioche, Banana Caramel Scroll, and a BC Blueberry Pancake Croissant. “We’ve been picnicking or eating outdoors a lot ourselves,…
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 Black Kale Celeriac Milk Butter Olive Oil Celery Garlic Salt Pepper Port Vinegar Sugar Micro Greens For Braised Kale In a large soup pot, heat the olive oil. Add the garlic and cook over moderately high heat, stirring, just until fragrant, about 45 seconds. Add…
