Flourish Fundraising Gala 2020

Flourish Green Tie Fundraiser At VCC Flourish is VCC’s, green-tie fundraising gala and it’s all for a good cause! It’s our third year attending and we’re looking forward to it. You’ll enjoy fabulous food, music, fashion, and find deals at the silent auction and wine wall. Flourish net proceeds help fund Vancouver Community College (VCC) Foundation student…

VCC Chef’s Table Volume II

Chef Hamid Salimian’s VCC Students Deliver A Tantalizing Meal VCC Chef’s Table pop-up restaurant hosted by the VCC Culinary Arts is on until September 8th so you need to act quickly to get a seat for this one! We dined on the series menu last night and it is an impressive display of the culinary…

Healthy Chef 2015

For 16 years the Healthy Chef competition has been challenging groups of BC based culinary schools, hotels and restaurants to gather their fruits, herbs and vegetables, to square off against each other and create fantastic plates where fresh produce is the star. We love this event, and always enjoy the evening. We even left with a…

VCC to represent Canada at the 2012 Culinary Olympics

Weeks of jangled nerves, sacrificed sleep, and hours in the kitchen. It all paid off for VCC s junior chef team earlier this month when it won the honour of representing Canada in the 2012 World Culinary Olympics in Erfurt, Germany. Coached by Tobias MacDonald, VCC instructor and head chef at Ladner s La Belle…

Chef John-Carlo Felicella of VCC – Canadian Chef of the Year

It was with typical humility that John-Carlo Felicella, head of Vancouver Community College s culinary arts department, reacted to the honour of being selected by his peers around the country as Canadian Chef of the Year.  It s nice to get the recognition for all the work you do for the industry but there are…