Meet Lori Joyce from Betterwith Food At The Wellness Show

Lori Joyce Joins Women Empowering Women Panel For the past 26 years, The Wellness Show has been on the cutting edge of the latest health and wellness trends, bringing them to the residents of the Lower Mainland. This year’s show takes place February 16 and 17, 2018, at the Vancouver Convention Centre and there’s lots of…

CONTEST CLOSED The Wellness Show GIVEAWAY $150 Nesters Gift Basket

The Wellness Show February 17 & 18 Showcases over 250 Exhibitors Congrats to Sandra! It’s less than a week to the Wellness Show and we’ve partnered with the show to give you 2 tickets to the show, plus a $150 gift basket from our friends at Nesters! (must pick up at show) The Wellness Show  presents the…

Chef Alex Chen Takes Gold At Canadian Culinary Championships

Chef Alex Chen Shines Through Three Intense Culinary Competitions This year seemed particularly special at the Canadian Culinary Championships in Kelowna, as there seemed to be a tight group of chefs, all producing top notch dishes through the three competitions that made up these gourmet Olympics, and I was gratefully ring side to take it…

Chef Alex Chen From Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar Heads To The Gold Medal Plates

A Few Questions With Chef Alex Chen – Competitor In Gold Medal Plates, Kelowna We interviewed Chef Alex Chen before he won the Victoria 2017 Gold Medal Plates where he took the gold and checked in with him this week before the finals, the Canadian Culinary Championships that take place this weekend in Kelowna, BC February…

Chef Mike Robins From Sous Sol, Winnipeg Heads To The Gold Medal Plates

A Few Questions With Chef Mike Robins – Competitor In Gold Medal Plates, Kelowna The Canadian Culinary Championships will take place this weekend in Kelowna, BC February 2-3, 2018 The eleven competing chefs will be aiming for gold as they compete in three events over two days testing their skills, creativity and endurance. We had a…

Chef Shane Chartrand of Sage, Edmonton, Heads To The Gold Medal Plates

A Few Questions With Chef Shane Chartrand From SAGE– Competitor In Gold Medal Plates, Kelowna The Canadian Culinary Championships will take place this weekend in Kelowna, BC February 2-3, 2018. The eleven competing chefs will be aiming for gold as they compete in three events over two days testing their skills, creativity and endurance. We had…

Chef David Vinoya From Wild Sage Bistro, Regina Heads To The Gold Medal Plates

A Few Questions With Chef David Vinoya From Wild Sage Bistro – Competitor In Gold Medal Plates, Kelowna The Canadian Culinary Championships will take place this weekend in Kelowna, BC February 2-3, 2018. The eleven competing chefs will be aiming for gold as they compete in three events over two days testing their skills, creativity and endurance….

Chef James McFarland From University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon Heads To The Gold Medal Plates

A Few Questions With Chef James McFarland – Competitor In Gold Medal Plates, Kelowna The Canadian Culinary Championships will take place this weekend in Kelowna, BC February 2-3, 2018. The eleven competing chefs will be aiming for gold as they compete in three events over two days testing their skills, creativity and endurance. We had a…

Chef Briana Kim From Cafe My House Heads To The Gold Medal Plates

A Few Questions For Chef Briana Kim – Competitor In Gold Medal Plates, Kelowna The Canadian Culinary Championships will take place this weekend in Kelowna, BC February 2-3, 2018. The eleven competing chefs will be aiming for gold as they compete in three events over two days testing their skills, creativity and endurance. We had a…

Chef Eric Gonzalez From L’Atelier Joël Robuchon, Montreal Heads To The Gold Medal Plates

A Few Questions Chef Eric Gonzalez  – Competitor In Gold Medal Plates, Kelowna The Canadian Culinary Championships will take place this weekend in Kelowna, BC February 2-3, 2018. The eleven competing chefs will be aiming for gold as they compete in three events over two days testing their skills, creativity and endurance. We had a few…

Chef Nick Jewczyk From The Fifth Ticket St. John’s Heads To The Gold Medal Plates

A Few Questions For Chef Nick Jewczyk – Competitor In Gold Medal Plates, Kelowna The Canadian Culinary Championships will take place this weekend in Kelowna, BC February 2-3, 2018. The eleven competing chefs will be aiming for gold as they compete in three events over two days testing their skills, creativity and endurance. We had a…

Chef Lorenzo Loseto From George Restaurant,Toronto Heads To The Gold Medal Plates

A Few Questions For Chef Lorenzo Loseto – Competitor In Gold Medal Plates, Kelowna The Canadian Culinary Championships will take place this weekend in Kelowna, BC February 2-3, 2018. The eleven competing chefs will be aiming for gold as they compete in three events over two days testing their skills, creativity and endurance. We had a…

Chef Barry Mooney From Gio, Nova Scotia Heads To The Gold Medal Plates

A Few Questions For Chef Barry Moon – Competitor In Gold Medal Plates The Canadian Culinary Championships will take place this weekend in Kelowna, BC February 2-3, 2018. The eleven competing chefs will be aiming for gold as they compete in three events over two days testing their skills, creativity and endurance. We had a few question…

Dine Out Vancouver Just $20 At Bimini’s Pub

Kitslilano’s Bimini’s Pub Overs Dinners Great Value Named after the Bimini Islands in the Bahamas, Bimini’s first opened its doors in 1974 after being granted the Province’s first Neighborhood Pub license. The busy bar was quickly embraced by the post Summer of Love-era hippie locals; environmental agency Greenpeace’s head office was across the street, and…

#Giveaway 4 Tickets to Ripley’s Believe It or Not at Science World

The Science of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Opens at TELUS World of Science January 25 We’re geeking out (as usual) and heading to Science World to check out Ripley’s Believe It or Not’s Collection Collection of Oddities, Anomalies and Fantastic Feats tomorrow so follow our Instastories here after 5 pm for that, and we’ve got…

What’s Good This Week – January 24th Edition

What To Do In Vancouver This Week We’re in the midst of Dine Out Vancouver (we had some pics last week here), the arts scene is buzzing, and there’s much focus on getting healthy, spending their time at the gym, focusing on self-care and rejuvenation.  Where’s your focus this year? Have you found one yet?…

Robbie Burns Day In Vancouver

Scotch Whisky, Ales, Haggis and Bagpipes! What’s Up In Vancouver This Robbie Burns Day Robbie Burns is Scotland’s most famous poet, and one of the more humorous ones. You probably know his most famous works, Auld Lang Syne, and each year the year of his birth is celebrated worldwide. As for me, I don’t need any…

Beer And Tacos With Tacofino Hastings & Red Truck Beer

Tacofino Launches Beer Dinner Series Starting With Red Truck Beer What goes better than tacos and beer? It’s a match that can’t be denied, but what’s in that taco matters when it comes to food and beer pairing, so lucky for us the powers that know have joined together to offer a variety of tacos…

Canadian Culinary Championships Kelowna BC February 2 & 3

Support Olympic Athletes While Sampling Canada’s To Chef’s Dishes at the Canadian Culinary Championships We’ve booked our flights and have sent the interview questions to the chefs competing to get a bit of background information on who is competing at this year’s Canadian Culinary Championships held in Kelowna of February 2 & 3, 2018. Our…

What’s Good This Week – Dine Out Vancouver

What to do for Dine Out Vancouver I started writing my weekly picks and it ended up being so Dine Out Vancouver heavy that I decided to do a whole post on a couple of my ideas. So here’s my Dine Out Vancouver 2018  suggestions and there’s so many choices that I’m not  going to pretend…