Everything But The Grill: Cibo Trattoria Does BBQ Grill-Ready Meal Kits for Four Feature Dry Aged Ribeyes, Prawn and Vegetable Skewers, Selection of Antipasto and Charcuterie and More Cibo Trattoria is helping guests get a head start on summer grilling season and providing the perfect last-minute Father’s Day feast by introducing new Summer BBQ Boxes available for 48-hour pre-order and pickup at the downtown restaurant beginning today. The brainchild of new Head Chef Jesse Zuber, each Cibo Summer BBQ Box is available for $200 plus tax, offers enough food for four adults and comes wrapped and ready to go with…
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What’s Up In The Wine World This Week Another week of people in the wine world getting the good word out via virtual tastings. We are not a bunch that likes to stay home and sip solo; it’s more about sharing in the wine world. Follow our drinks contributor Good Wine Gal, Barb Wild for more on wine. We hope to raise a glass to you all in person soon. Wednesday June 17 – It’s the #9 Winery of the Year in 2019 at the InterVin International Wine Awards, La Frenz Winery chatting it up with John at Marquis Wine…
Chef Angus An reopens Fat Mao Noodles to serve its Southeast Asian-style soup noodles in Chinatown Great news from Chef Angus An and Fat Mao Noodles! All your favourites are back—choose your soup, then customize by choosing from five different types of noodles, including gluten-free and vegan options. Sides and drinks are also available to enjoy at the casual eatery or at home. A maximum of 15 guests will be served at a time, with orders taken at the door, and self-service food and drink. Fat Mao Noodles is open 11:30am to 8pm, seven days a week. Get your noodles delivered via Door Dash…
For Fathers Day Nuba Restaurants Offer Lebaneses-Inspired BBQ Kits June 20-21 Local Middle Eastern cuisine favourite Nuba is giving families a great way to channel their inner grillmasters by featuring limited-time-only Father’s Day BBQ Kits available for pickup at all four local Nuba locations on Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21. Offered for $95 plus tax and featuring all the food, craft beer and fixings necessary to provide a Father’s Day feast for four, each Nuba Father’s Day BBQ Kit contains: Four Skewers of Marinated Sirloin Mixed Vegetables Half of a Pre-Baked Cauliflower Rice Salad Kit Pita Garlic Sauce,…
Hawksworth Restaurant Celebrate Father’s Day with a mouthwatering classic complete with all the fixings News from Hawksworth for father’s day! Treat dad to a thoughtful and unique experience this Father’s Day with the Hawksworth DIY Ultimate Burger Gift Box ($50) from award-winning Hawksworth Restaurant. What better way to celebrate than with an afternoon of barbecuing in the sun! Complete with everything you need to recreate this popular classic from the comfort of your own home, the Burger Gift Box includes: four house made brioche buns; four Hawksworth seasoned house-ground beef patties; housemade special sauce; applewood smoked bacon; aged Canadian cheddar;…
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 months of solely offering takeout and delivery, Yuwa Japanese Cuisine is gearing up to welcome guests back to its award-winning Upper Kitsilano restaurant for limited dine-in service starting this Tuesday, June 16. Beginning tomorrow, guests will be able to reserve via yuwa.ca for dine-in service…
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 pop-up that reintroduces cocktail fans to fun nights out and an array of reduced-contact, ‘choose-your-own-cocktail’ experiences takes flight when the team at Juke Fried Chicken (182 Keefer Street) transforms their dining room into ‘Chickadee’ beginning Friday, June 12. Incorporating the new reality of going out…
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 Good Wine Gal and GWG hosted events. We are welcome educators Cynthia Opsal (Essential Guide to Port), Dan Volway (World Class Whisky Tour of Scotland) and Van Doren Chan (Champagne Sessions – coming soon). This week’s BC Wine event features Mireille Sauve from Wine Umbrella…
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 return of dine-in service at the two downtown hotspots beginning tomorrow, Friday, June 5 by announcing the addition of new Head Chef Jesse Zuber. Vancouver-born-and-raised Zuber comes to Cibo and UVA after helming kitchens at Ayden Kitchen & Bar and Little Grouse on the Prairie…
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 with familiar flavours to Vancouverites. The new concept features a return to authentic and uncomplicated dishes, brilliantly executed and conceived under the direction of Chef David Hawksworth and his team. “Looking back at the repertoire of dishes I’ve created over the years, I’m always drawn back…
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 prawn soup. LunchLAB: Chefs for Families preparse more than 5,000 meals every week, ensuring more than 260 families in need have three nutritious and delicious meals every day. The program is a collaboration between Fresh Roots and Growing Chefs! and runs in partnership with Ono…
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 of BC Spot Prawns served either grilled or steamed and Provence patron favourite – BC Spot Prawn Duo (grilled and Provençal style) on tagliatelle and zucchini ribbons. BC-produced wines which are available by either the glass or the bottle –Terravista Vineyards Albariño 2019 (Naramata Bench) to…
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 Wine Gal is excited to present Cynthia Opsal and a four (4) part series called “The Essential Wine Lover’s Guide to Port” starting Tuesday June 9th at 7:30 pm on Zoom. Sign up here. Let Cynthia Opsal take you on a journey down the winding…
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 reorder! GLV You can now dine-in at one of Vancouver’s most popular French restaurants – Provence Marinaside, located in Yaletown overlooking the picturesque Quayside Marina. “As we now carefully re-open our restaurant, we want you to know that we are committed to the health and…
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 dinner at the restaurant and also a Spot Prawn Kit to be enjoyed at home. The dining room will be reopening June 1, and the Spot Prawn offerings will be available June 5. Spot Prawn Omakase This dine-in only experience will feature a half-pound of…
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 Hero’s with Marquis Wine Cellar Wednesday Marquis Wine Cellars hosts a tasting at Culmina Family Estate Winery. Meet winemaker Jean-Marc Enixon, a classically trained French viticulturist and winemaker who came to the Okanagan in 2015 and joined Culmina to further his passion for crafting unique…
¿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 this Thursday, May 28, 2020, experience ¿CóMO? Chico, a temporary neighbourhood tapas, shop, and drink pop-up. Enjoy prepared tapas, conservas, wine, and cocktails on the patio, or peruse the mercado (market). Sipping and shopping is allowed. “The current regulations make it challenging for us to…
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 both locations from noon to 8 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays and from noon to 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Nuba’s dine-in menu will include a selection of mezzes, salads, plates and mains plus the addition of pitas for lunch service. Nuba’s recently launched direct delivery…
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 to close L’Abattoir on March 16th, a few days prior to the provincially mandated industry closure, Chef and Owner, Lee Cooper spent several weeks cleaning the entire restaurant, freezing, preserving and donating all the perishable food that remained and boarding up the windows on his…
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 in the hospitality and other highly affected industries, may we all be able to host more reguary again soon. Until then, please be kind, be patient, and know that your hosts are trying their best to accomodate you, keep their employees safe and at least…
