Air Canada Announces Canada’s Best New Restaurants 2018 – News Release

The Restaurant at Pearl Morissette in Ontario named Canada’s Best New Restaurant Congrats to Canada’s Best New Restaurants! Thousands of restaurants launch every year, but only ten remarkable destinations can call themselves Canada’s Best New Restaurants.  Air Canada and presenting partner American Express revealed its highly-coveted Top 10 list with The Restaurant at Pearl Morissette…

Canada’s Great Kitchen Party – Chef Aleks Kornat Government House

Catching Up With Victoria’s Chef Aleks Kornat Tomorrow nine of British Columbia’s top chefs will head to Victoria to compete in Canada’s Great Kitchen Party,  the regional qualifier for the Canadian Culinary Championships. We’re learning a little bit about them before they compete. Here we throw a few questions out to Victoria’s Chef Aleks Kornats…

Poquitos Cantina Opens On Kingsway – News Release

ROSES ARE RED, SALSA IS TOO; WE WANT TO DRINK TEQUILA WITH YOU Arriba! The ever-growing Kingsway x Fraser restaurant community has just been joined by a pop-up Latin flavour infusion with the opening of Poquitos Cantina. Taking over the original location of neighbourhood mainstay, The Black Lodge (which has since moved to fresh new…

Canada’s Great Kitchen Party – Chef Tony Starratt Two Rivers Meat Shop

Catching Up With Vancouver’s Chef Tony Starratt On Thursday nine of British Columbia’s top chefs will head to Victoria to compete in Canada’s Great Kitchen Party,  the regional qualifier for the Canadian Culinary Championships. We’re learning a little bit about them before they compete. Here we throw a few questions out to Vancouver’s Chef Tony…

Canada’s Great Kitchen Party – Chef Takashi Ito from Aura

Catching Up With Victoria’s Chef Takashi Ito On Thursday nine of British Columbia’s top chefs will head to Victoria to compete in Canada’s Great Kitchen Party,  the regional qualifier for the Canadian Culinary Championships. We’re learning a little bit about them before they compete. Here we throw a few questions out to Victoria’s Chef Takashi…

Canada’s Great Kitchen Party – Heritage Asian Eatery’s Chef Felix Zhou

In The Kitchen with Vancouver’s Chef Felix Zhou Tell us a little bit about your restaurant and/or style of cooking. Heritage Asian Eatery is a casual, counter service restaurant that serves rice bowls, baos and some classic Asian favorites like noodles and dumplings. We specialize in Asian comfort food made with high-quality ingredients. Overall I…

Canada’s Great Kitchen Party – Chef Ryan Zuvich Lastella Trattoria

Catching Up With Chef Ryan Zuvich of Nanaimo’s Lastella Trattoria Tell us a little bit about your restaurant and/or style of cooking Our restaurant is a lively casual Italian shop set in the Old City Quarter of Nanaimo. Hand made everything is our general model. While it’s a casual place our food philosophy and ultimately…

CND Shellac Luxe

CND Launches New Shellac Polish And We Love It I love getting shellac nails done, but I hate sitting still and I inevitably end up picking them off instead of going back to having them taken off  properly, damaging my nail beds. CND now has a solution for my dilemma. Thanks to the new formula of…

Canada’s Great Kitchen Party – Chef Paul Moran From 1909 Kitchen

Catching Up With Tofino Resort and Marina’s Chef Paul Moran Next week nine of British Columbia’s top chefs will head to Victoria to compete in Canada’s Great Kitchen Party,  the regional qualifier for the Canadian Culinary Championships. We’re learning a little bit about them before they compete. Here we throw a few questions out to…

Yuwa Japanese Cuisine One Year Anniversary Dinner – Coverage and Event Listing

Yuwa Japanese Anniversary Dinner on October 23 Yuwa Japanese Cuisine will celebrate its first year in fine style by hosting an exclusive one-night-only Anniversary Dinner on Tuesday, October 23 and we were lucky enough to get a preview. The event begins with a sparkling wine reception at 6 p.m. before Yuwa Executive Chef and Co-Owner Masahiro Omori demonstrates his…

Canada’s Great Kitchen Party – Chef Paul Cecconi of Brodo

In The Kitchen with Brodo’s Chef Paul Cecconi Next week nine of British Columbia’s top chefs will head to Victoria to compete in Canada’s Great Kitchen Party,  the regional qualifier for the Canadian Culinary Championships. We’re learning a little bit about them before they compete. Here we throw a few questions out to Penticton’s Chef…

What’s Karen Drinking – Tequila Cosmopolitan

Mixing Up a Tequila Cosmopolitan It’s that time of week again, so kick back and relax and mix up yourself something that Karen’s been drinking! From our pal Karen: “It’s the last day of summer (when she made this one!) and I wanted to take it out with something a bit summery.😎Cheers and farewell dear summer…

Canada’s Great Kitchen Party Victoria October 25 – Event Listing

Regional qualifier for the Canadian Culinary Championships brings the best from sport, music and food The Kitchen Party – Victoria edition – is a regional qualifier for the Canadian Culinary Championships, which will be held in Kelowna, BC in February 2019. Nine chefs will be competing on Thursday, October 25th the Victoria Conference Centre, in the…

UNIQLO Launches Mobile Site And Smartphone APP + Pop Up And Giveaway

UNIQLO Gives Away 50,000 HEATTECH Items Celebrate all things UNIQLO with the brand’s newly launched mobile site and smartphone app at their pop-up at 1263 Homer Street in Vancouver from October 17th to 20th, 2018, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday and until 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday.   Step inside the mobile online store IRL…

Storied Cuisine – Event Listing Oct. 27

A Celebration of Women Entrepreneurs and Cultural Food A unique culinary experience exploring culture through food and stories. On Saturday, October 27th at 7:00pm, come to an unforgettable evening of diverse cultural food and stories of entrepreneurship in the beautiful setting of Massy Books in Chinatown for Storied Cuisine. You’ll hear the stories of three inspiring Flavours…

Local Chefs Serve Up Mac & Cheese

Mac & Cheese For Snack For Kids For one week only (October 19th to 26th), the following top restaurants will be featuring their versions of the comfort classic Mac and Cheese with all proceeds benefiting the Vancouver Firefighter Charities’ SNACKS FOR KIDS Program. This is an unique campaign as Chefs from Vancouver’s top restaurants have teamed up for this…

LOT185 Opens In The Vancouver Convention Centre – News Release

New Local Focused Cafe Lot185 Cafe + Wine Bar From the Press Release:  LOT185 Café + Wine Bar opened in the Vancouver Convention Centre recently. Overlooking Jack Poole Plaza, this new space will embrace the modern aesthetic of the Convention Centre while offering a casual dining experience for both visitors and Vancouverites. Inspired by the laid-back atmosphere…

What’s Karen Drinking – Blood Orange G&T

Mixing Up a Blood Orange G&T It’s that time of week again, so kick back and relax and mix up yourself something that Karen’s been drinking! From our pal Karen: “It’s the Thanksgiving long weekend here in Canada. I found bags of Blood Oranges @costco_canada and they’re perfect for making a colourful and delicious welcoming cocktail for…

Food Gays Cooking In Color

Food Gays Launch Their First Cookbook And It’s Gorgeous I’ve known the Food Gays, Adrian Harris and Jeremy Inglett for a few years now and I feel proud to see them accomplish so much and have so enjoyed watching their journey. Their food  styling and photography is so well done and also well documented on Instagram (@foodgays), and…

Havana Vancouver officially re-opens! – News Release

Commercial Drive restaurant to re-open its doors today after 9-week closure  From the press release: After a nine-week closure due to small kitchen fire, the Havana Vancouver team is thrilled to announce the official re-opening of the Cuban meets Pacific Northwest restaurant. (photos by Sweet Pea Photography) Opening at 10am today (Wednesday, October 3), guests will again have…