Women & Traditional Cuisine Culinary Event in Mexico

First Women & Traditional Cuisine Culinary Event Hosted by Renowned Mexican Chefs At Grand Velas Riviera Nayarit Oh if we only had the budget to head to this event at the end of January! Here’s hoping some of you might be able to attend the Women & Traditional Cuisine event! Perhaps we’ll craft one more…

World Premiere of Fleurs de Villes Noël 

Floral Installations Created By Vancouver’s Top Florists We strolled the streets and were blown away by the creativity florists exhibited when creating these brilliant displays.  Look out for the Fleurs de Villes Noel next year. We hope they’ll be back! Fleurs de Villes Noël was presented by National Bank and supported by the Downtown Vancouver…

Best Gifts For A Smarter Home

Create A Better Home With These Smarter Home Gifts If you’re looking to help your loved ones make their home life better, we’ve got a few suggestions for you. Give them the gift of clean floors, clean air, more food storage or perhaps a visual smart home device. Here are the best gifts for a…

Cookies For Kids Fundraiser from Vista D’Oro

Vista D’Oro Sells Cookies for Kids With Proceeds To BC Children’s Hospital Our friends at Vista D’Oro, Lee and Patrick Murphy have been busy baking cookies and organizing other bakers for their 14th annual Cookies For Kids Fundraiser for BC Children’s Hospital The tins can be preordered and will be ready for pickup beginning December…

The Fairmont Chateau Whistler Delivers Decadent Dining

Dinner In The Grill Room At The Fairmont Chateau Whistler Before the holiday season gets in full swing, you’ve got a smidgen of time to escape up to Whistler and enjoy the festivities before hotel room prices spirals upward. If you’ve got just one night, we’ve got the agenda for you! First up, take the…

Culinary Trends for 2020 From Les Dames d’Escoffier

Members of Les Dames d’Escoffier Weigh in on Culinary Trends For 2020  Did you know Les Dames d’Escoffier International (LDEI) gathers data from our international membership of over 2,400? Les Dames d’Escoffier is a worldwide philanthropic organization of professional women leaders in the fields of food, fine beverage, and hospitality and I’m a member.  Members …

Les Dames d’Escoffier Dames Wine

Dames Wine Releases Dames Brut And Donates $20,000 to Les Dames d’Escoffier Winemaker Mireille Sauve launched the Dames Wine  with a 2013 vintage, donating profits to benefit of Les Dames d’Escoffier British Columbia Chapter’s Scholarship Fund. On November 25th Sauve, the Dames 2019 president, presented a $20,000 cheque to the organization at the Annual General…

Things To Do In Vancouver November 20 Edition

Good Things – Vancouver Events And What To Do in Vancouver I’m in holiday mode already and have been getting the house ready to decorate and thinking about what cookies to bake this year. I probably won’t pull out the full decor until December, but I’ve got some plans, which is what counts, right? Half…

Vancouver Hospitality Industry Bands Together

$15,000 Raised for Mind the Bar Foundation From The Vancouver Hospitality Industry We joined a sold out and event at Café Medina (780 Richards Street) for Kitchen Aide Vol.1 and helped raise more than $15,000 for Mind the Bar Foundation. Fifteen Vancouver chefs and four bartenders stepped up to create awareness and end the stigma…

Wine Village The First In Canada

District Wine Village Opens To Open In South Okanagan The first village of its kind in Canada, District Wine Village will bring small-batch wine, beer, cider and spirit producers together alongside unique events and creative culinary offerings, all in one exceptional South Okanagan location. More wine news here. Breaking ground in spring 2020, District Wine…

Espresso Cocktails With Grey Goose

National Espresso Day Espresso Cocktails. We partnered with Grey Goose to bring you some Espresso cocktails! Join us in our cocktail lounge series where we bring you bar cocktails and afterwork drinks. And, please don’t call it EXPRESSO, that’s an s drink lovers, not an x. More cocktails here. Instead of just enjoying a regular…

Tacofino Hosts Shift Change Hospitality Industry Outreach Event on November 25 – Vancouver Event

Hospitality Community Unites to Discuss Issues Involving Gender, Substance Use and Mental Health, Introduces Employee Assistance Program, Free to Industry Workers Tacofino is set to host Shift Change — an event designed to bring the local hospitality community together to create dialogue and exchange ideas to improve the quality of life for those working within an often-challenging industry…

Bishop’s Restaurant Fall Game And Foraged Dinner

The Bounties of BC: Wild Game and Foraged Dinner at Bishop’s Restaurant Bishop’s Restaurant, Vancouver’s original farm to table restaurant, has been delivering local food and wine to its diners well before the trend went mainstream. On Thursday November 28, 2019 join them to celebrate the flavours of fall, with a menu stacked full of…

Kitchen Aide For Mental Health – Event Listing

Vancouver Chefs Unite To Raise Awareness For Mental Health Initiatives Several Vancouver chefs have banded together to end the stigma on speaking out about the prevalence of mental health issues in the kitchen. They want people to speak up and loud. On Monday, November 18, 2019 at 6:30 p.m., the whole community is invited to…

Papi’s Seafood and Oyster Bar Welcomes Jefferson Alvarez – News

Jefferson Alvarez Now Head Chef at Papi’s – New Nightly Dinner and Weekend Brunch Menu Congratulations to our friend Chef Jefferson Alvarez on his now formalized role at Papi’s Seafood and Oyster Bar. It’s time for a revisit for us, and doesn’t that brunch sound tempting. From the press release – SMC Communications Papi’s Seafood and…

Week of Italian Cuisine – Event Listing

Italian Cuisine Week Hits Vancouver The Week of the Italian Cuisine in the World will take place on November, 18 to 24, 2019, with over 1,000 events showcasing Italian wine and food, held all around the world.  In Vancouver you can join this gourmet adventure with a dinner on November 20th at the Italian Cultural…

Things To Do In Vancouver This Week October 25 Edition

What To Do In Vancouver This Week It’s full on fall and the wind is howling, almost signalling that it’s time to cozy up inside under a blanket by the fire. But we’re not that easily scared off and a little wind won’t keep us from getting out and enjoying Vancouver and all it has…

EAT! Vancouver Q + A With Christine Sanford from Biera

Christine Sanford from Biera in Edmonton As one of the EAT! Vancouver Ambassadors, we’re catching up with the chefs at this culinary festival and here we have a bit about Chef Christine Sanford from Edmonton’s Biera. EAT! Vancouver takes place from November 4 to 9, 2019  and features culinary collaborations between award-winning local and special guest…

Eat! Vancouver Q + A With Chef Cathy Whims of Nostrana

Chef Cathy Whims From Nostrana in Portland Vancouver Is At Eat! Vancouver More of our pre-coverage on EAT! Vancouver as tickets are going fast and we don’t want you to miss out. Here’s our Q + A with Chef Cathy Whims From Nostrana, one of the best Italian restaurants in Portland.  EAT! Vancouver takes place…

Eat! Vancouver Q + A With Chef Pino Posteraro

Pino Posteraro From Cioppino’s Vancouver Is At Eat! Vancouver We are counting down to EAT! Vancouver as it’s less than two weeks away! We’ve interviewed some of the chefs participating to get to know them a little better and here’s the scoop from Chef Pino Posteraro from Cioppino’s Vancouver, one of the best Italian restaurants…