Chop Steakhouse & Bar Steak Overload! Chop Steakhouse & Bar’s Executive Chef, Stephen Clark, has collaborated with his old friend, Chef Alex Chen, to bring a delicious, limited-time menu across Canada as part of the Steak Masters – In Pursuit of Perfection tour at Chop Steakhouse & Bar. We just had to try this meat festival and Tess and I ventured out with our hearty appetites in tow. Thanks to Lyft we can now dine a little further out! Chef Stephen and Chef Alex teamed up to develop this new menu featuring four new items: Steak Tartare, a shareable Tomahawk…
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Eat Chocolate Guilt Free With Proceeds Going To Women’s Scholarships Some great news! Tomorrow you can eat chocolate guilt-free as 50% of the sale of Mon Paris Patisserie’s special chocolates are being donated to Les Dames d’Escoffier’s scholarship program for women in culinary, wine and hospitality . The shop is in Burnaby at 4396 Beresford Street, near Metrotown. Public relations whiz, Dame Katharine Manson, helped organize this fundraiser for International Women’s Day, another great example of how Les Dame d’Escoffier’s members work in the community to raise the profile of women in culinary, wine and hospitality! Chocolatier Elena Krasnova of…
Barb Wild’s Weekly Pick Is Lambrusco Reggiano Frizzante Barb Wild has been sipping again and this week’s pick is Lambrusco Reggiano Frizzante – Medici Ermete Concerto 2017! Read more on wine on The Good Wine Gal site, and her previous picks here. Happy Wine Wednesday wine friends! LAMBRUSCO REGGIANO FRIZZANTE – MEDICI ERMETE CONCERTO 2017 If case you missed it, the Vancouver International Wine Festival was on last week. I’m not sure how anyone survives #vanwinefest because from the moment the doors open its wine tasting, cheese and ham noshing and people watching and hugging until it ends. When it’s over, my heart…
John Bishop To Close Iconic Fourth Avenue Bishops In August Bishop’s, one of Vancouver’s best-loved restaurants, is closing its doors August 1st, as proprietor John Bishop retires to write and spend more time with his family. Opened in 1985, a year before Expo 86, Bishop’s is synonymous with farm-to-table ingredients, west coast hospitality, and great food. “It has been a terrific run,” said Bishop. “After 35 years, our customers have become good friends, but now I want to spend more time with my own family and get to work on another book. I also want to use these next few months…
17th Annual Awards Lunch VIWF Trade Competition Winners A huge congratulations to everyone, especially this year’s Spirited Industry Professional Winner, our friend, and fellow Dana Lee Harris! The Vancouver International Wine Festival announced the 2020 trade competition winners on Friday at Celebrating Excellence: 17th Annual Awards Lunch Featuring France, presented by ContainerWorld. The Celebrating Excellence program is part of the three-day Trade Days Conference; the program honours those professionals who contribute to this region’s exceptional wine and food culture. Guests enjoyed a meal prepared by Vancouver Convention Centre executive chef Mark Massicotte, exquisitely matched with a selection of 32 wines from…
Quick Conversations In Wine – Antonella Bronca From Sorella Bronca The wine world is in Vancouver for the Vancouver International Wine Festival and Antonella Brona is representing her winery, Sorella Bronca at the festival tastings and a dinner at Minami. Here’s some tidbits of info from this Italian winemaker in our speed round of Q + A with her. There’s also more on the Vancouver International Wine Festival here. Sorella Bronca aldobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG Particella 232 Brut Nature 2018 will be at the Natural Wine WTF Seminar at the Wine Festival! (Sold Out Event) Proudest moment? The Sorelle Bronca Particella…
Quick Conversations in Wine Stefanie Dylla Laughing Stock Winery The Vancouver International Wine Festival is on and we’ve interviewed a few of the attendees. Good Wine Gal’s Barb Wild and I choose some of the women in attendance for this year’s festival and have presented them with a few quick fire questions to get to know them better. Here’s our Q + A with Laughing Stock Winery’s Stefanie Dylla. More on the Wine Festival here. Proudest moment? Being asked to stay on as Cellar Assistant after my first harvest at LFNG. There was never a full-time cellar assistant prior and it…
The Odlum Brown FWE Gala: Pitch for the Purse 2020 Chooses Lynn Dargis We are so happy to share the results from last nights gala that we attended: there was a record $900,000 raised for women entrepreneur educational programming at the FWE Gala: Pitch for the Purse! (photo credit Yaletown Photography) The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE) congratulates Lynn Dargis, CEO of Farmbucks Inc., who was awarded the $25,000 grand prize at FWE’s Pitch for the Purse Finale during the Odlum Brown FWE Gala at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver on February 20, 2020. More on the Gala here. Farmbucks is an app and…
Quick Conversations in Wine Lyndsay O’Rourke Tightrope Winery The Vancouver International Wine Festival is on and we’ve interviewed a few of the attendees. Good Wine Gal’s Barb Wild and I choose some of the women in attendance for this year’s festival and have presented them with a few quick-fire questions to get to know them better. Here’s our Q + A with Tightrope Winery’s Lyndsay O’Rourke. More on the Wine Festival here. Proudest moment? There are a lot of moments that we have to be proud of since we started in the wine industry, but I would say the results of…
Quick Conversations In Wine Leah Adint Chateau Ste. Michelle The Vancouver International Wine Festival starts this week and we’ve interviewed a few of the attendees. Good Wine Gal’s Barb Wild and I choose some of the women in attendance for this year’s festival and have presented them with a few quick fire questions to get to know them better. Here’s our Q + A with Washington State’s Leah Adint from Chateau Ste. Michelle. More on the Wine Festival here. Proudest moment? I learned about fortified winemaking production during my time in the Riverland, Australia. After 5 years at Chateau Ste. Michelle, I…
Vancouver Events This Week It’s here! Vancouver International Wine Festival and we’ll be reporting from the front lines this week. There’s still some tickets left for a few of the events including the tastings on Thursday and Friday night. Events available here. More on what to do this week including polenta and a Singaporean food pop up! Indigenous Chefs Table At El Santo February 26, 2020 Join el Santo for Sous Chef Darrel Ahenakews exclusive six course tasting menu highlighting Indigenous cuisine. Dinner includes a complementary welcome cocktail and a six-course dinner for $75. Full beverage pairing available for an…
New Cocktails Inspired By Natural Wonders at the Four Seasons Resort Whistler Legendary mixologist Lauren Mote and the bar team at Four Seasons Resort Whistler are back with four new additions to the Spirit of the Mountains cocktail program. Adding to the award-winning program, four personalities from the best talent at SIDECUT Modern Steak + Bar, alongside award-winning Mote, tell tales of natural wonders around the world with four unforgettable cocktails. Launched in February 2018, the cocktail program pays tribute to alpine regions across the globe through multi-sensory cocktails enriched in captivating visuals, aromatic fragrances, complex flavours and a variety of textures. Inspired by regions that have…
Quick Conversations In Wine Cristiana Tiberio From Tiberio The Vancouver International Wine Festival starts this week and we’ve interviewed a few of the attendees. Good Wine Gal’s Barb Wild and I choose some of the women in attendance for this year’s festival and have presented them with a few quick fire questions to get to know them better. Here’s our Q + A with Italy’s Cristiana Tiberio From Tiberio More on the Wine Festival here. Proudest moment? In 2004 when the first old vines of TREBBIANO ABRUZZESE, at that time 50 years old, were revived and started to produce grapes again.…
Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar Serves Chef Roger Ma’s Canadian Culinary Championship 2020 Winning Menu News from Boulevard Kitchen: Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar’s Executive Chef, Roger Ma, will feature his award-winning dishes in a special menu available exclusively from February 22 until the end of March. The recent winner of the Canadian Culinary Championship invites diners to savour the flavours from the three competitions – Mystery Wine Pairing, Black Box and Grand Finale. Guests can expect a culinary journey of suspense and surprise. Ma presents a menu that celebrates coastal cuisine and exhibits a variety of specialized techniques that…
Quick Conversations in Wine – Jennifer Molgat of The View Winery The Vancouver International Wine Festival starts this week and we’ve interviewed a few of the attendees. Good Wine Gal’s Barb Wild and I choose some of the women in attendance for this year’s festival and have presented them with a few quick-fire questions to get to know them better. Here’s our Q + A with Jennifer Molgat, of The View Winery, who I went to high school with, in Kelowna. More on the Wine Festival here. Proudest moment? Proudest moments in my winery life are when I am sharing our…
L’Oréal Paris announces the esteemed Canadian honorees of their fourth annual Women of Worth Program On International Women’s Day, $110,000 in charitable grants will be bestowed to ten Canadian women of worth who selflessly volunteer their time to drive change and make a meaningful difference in their communities L’Oréal Paris Canada today announced the remarkable recipients of its fourth annual Women of Worth program. Each year, the philanthropic initiative strives to recognize and honour a diverse group of unstoppable women who work passionately to identify problems, foster solutions and champion change. These ten extraordinary changemakers commonly advocate for those less fortunate and…
Chef Antonin Mousseau-Rivard of Le Mousso Joins Chef Lee Cooper at L’Abattoir News From L’Abattoir this a.m. about Chef Antonin Mousseau-Rivard. News Release: The ticket auction for L’Abattoir’s first No. 1 Gaoler’s Mews dinner in 2020 is set to launch on Monday, February 24th at 9 am and remains open until Saturday February 29th at 6 pm sharp. The first dinner takes place on Friday March 20th and will be a collaboration between Chef Lee Cooper and guest Chef Antonin Mousseau-Rivard of Le Mousso and Le Petit Mousso. All proceeds from ticket sales go toward the BC Hospitality Foundation which provides assistance…
Quick Conversations In Wine – Maria Lopez of Bodega Sarmentero The Vancouver International Wine Festival is just around the corner, and we’d like to know more about who’s attending and what they’re interested in in the world of wine, and thought you would too. Good Wine Gal’s Barb Wild and I choose some of the women in attendance for this year’s festival and have presented them with a few quick fire questions to get to know them better. Here’s our Q + A with Maria Lopez of Bodegas Sarmentero. More on the Wine Festival here. Proudest moment? It’s a combination between: the…
Quick Conversations In Wine – Vanessa Aubert From Aubert Vignobles As a prelude to who you’ll meet and what you’ll learn at the Vancouver International Wine Festival, we’ve got some interviews with the principals and winemakers! Here’s a few fun facts from France’s Vanessa Aubert from Aubert Vignobles in our speed round of Q + A with her. There’s also more on the Vancouver International Wine Festival here. Proudest moment? When I bought and created my own estate. Favorite grape variety? As I’m from the Bordeaux area, where we have a culture of blending, perhaps my favorite is Malbec (Cot in…
Barb Wild’s Weekly Pick Is Borsao Garnacha Barb Wild has been sipping again and this week’s pick is Borsao Garnacha. Read more on wine on The Good Wine Gal site, and her previous picks are here. Happy Wine Wednesday wine lovers! I’m happy to report that I’m in Spain at the moment. It’s not particularly warm but the sun is shining, people are friendly and good wine is everywhere. When thinking about what wine to share this week I am reminded of my first taste of Borsao Garnacha. It was about four years ago but I have not forgotten my first impression. What’s the deal? From…
