Top Chef Canada Season Four Announced

The Most Extreme Season of Food Network Canada’s #1 Series Premieres March 10 at 9pm ET/10pm PT  Winner Takes Home $100,000 Grand Prize Sponsored by SpongeTowels®, $30,000 GE Monogram Kitchen, and $25,000 Caesarstone Quartz Installation Top Chef Canada is back with its most extreme season ever. Food Network Canada and Insight Production Company Ltd. deliver…

Interview with Chef Kelly Cattani Elements the Restaurant Winnipeg

#ccc2014 @goldmedalplates Chefs from Canada will meet in Kelowna from February 7-8, 2014 to compete in the Gold Medal Plates Canadian Culinary Championships. Each year I interview them some questions prior to the challenge. Here is the scoop from Chef Kelly Cattani from Elements the Restaurant in Winnipeg. What was your first food memory? A stack of cinnamon raisin…

Interview with Chef Paul Shufelt Century Hospitality Group Edmonton

#ccc2014 @goldmedalplates Chefs from Canada will meet in Kelowna from February 7-8, 2014 to compete in the Gold Medal Plates Canadian Culinary Championships. Each year I interview them some questions prior to the challenge. Here is the scoop from Chef Paul Shufelt from Century Hospitality Group in Edmonton. What was your first food memory? My mom baking in the…

CONTEST CLOSED #Win 2 tics to Sonoma Wine Tasting @SonomaVintners

Contest Closed – Congrats Michelle! Wednesday, February 5th 2014, Sonoma County Vintners will host Sonoma in the City – Vancouver. An evening tasting at the Terminal City Club will offer wine lovers the chance to taste wines from over 20 Sonoma County wineries. The event will benefit the BC Hospitality Foundation’s fundraising efforts. To Win 2…

Interview with Roger Andrews Relish Gourmet Burgers

#ccc2014 @goldmedalplates Chefs from Canada will meet in Kelowna from February 7-8, 2014 to compete in the Gold Medal Plates Canadian Culinary Championships. Each year I interview them some questions prior to the challenge. Here is the scoop from Chef Roger Andrews from Relish Gourmet Burgers in Newfoundland. Cooking with my Grandmother What was in your elementary school lunch…

Interview with Lorenzo Loseto George Restaurant Toronto

#ccc2014 @goldmedalplates Chefs from Canada will meet in Kelowna from February 7-8, 2014 to compete in the Gold Medal Plates Canadian Culinary Championships. Each year I interview them prior to the challenge and they answer most of my questions.  Here is the response from Chef Lorenzo Loseto George Restaurant in Toronto. What was your first food memory? Going to Italy…

Interview with Chez Martin Ruiz Salvador Fleur de Sel (Lunenburg) Halifax

#ccc2014 @goldmedalplates Chefs from Canada will meet in Kelowna from February 7-8, 2014 to compete in the Gold Medal Plates Canadian Culinary Championships. Each year I interview them some questions prior to the challenge. Here is the scoop from Chef Martin Ruiz Salvador Fleur de Sel in Halifax. What was your first food memory? Getting smoked mackerel in my…

Interview with Chef Jonathan Thauberger Crave Kitchen Regina

#ccc2014 @goldmedalplates Chefs from Canada will meet in Kelowna from February 7-8, 2014 to compete in the Gold Medal Plates Canadian Culinary Championships. Each interview them prior to the challenge and they answer most of my questions.  Here is the scoop from Chef Jonathan Thauberger from Crave Kitchen + Wine Bar in Regina. What was your first food memory? Ordering…

Interview with Chef Duncan Ly From Yellow Door Bistro

#ccc2014 @goldmedalplates Chefs from Canada will meet in Kelowna from February 7-8, 2014 to compete in the Gold Medal Plates Canadian Culinary Championships. Each year I interview them prior to the challenge. Here is the scoop from Chef Duncan Ly from The Yellow Door bistro at The Hotel Arts in Calgary.  He’s in Kelowna this year back at it for…

Interview with Chef Brian Skinner from The Acorn Vancouver

#ccc2014 @goldmedalplates Chefs from Canada will meet in Kelowna from February 7-8, 2014 to compete in the Gold Medal Plates Canadian Culinary Championships. Each year I send them some questions prior to the challenge. Here is the scoop from Chef Brian Skinner from The Acorn in Vancouver. What was your first food memory? Eating mussels with cream and garlic…

Winterlicious at Kitsilano Daily Kitchen

Some of our best dishes from the past few years have come out of the Kitsilano Daily Kitchen’s kitchen so make 2014 the year you try the restaurant again or for the first time!  Kits Daily is not doing Dine Out Vancouver, instead they will be sampling four plates for $42 and  the tasting menu…

Olive Oil Merchant 2 for 1 SALE!

DEAL ALERT!  Annual Due Per Uno Sale at the Olive Oil Merchant!  Grab one for you and one for your… friend! This year’s selection includes duos from a good cross section of the boot: Bianchini Cuvee from Le Marche, Tenuta Rasciatano and De Carlo Organic from Puglia, Geraci from Sicily, Librandi Organic from Calabria and Vantera…

Sonoma in Vancouver

  EVENT ALERTS! Tuesday, February 4th 2014 Sonoma County Vintners will host two exceptional winemaker dinners in Vancouver. Blue Water Cafe + Raw Bar will feature the wines of Sonoma County’s Siduri Wines and Novy Family Wines, hosted by Siduri Proprietor Adam Lee. Blue Water’s Executive Chef, Frank Pabst, will prepare a special four-course dinner menu…

Good Things to Do January 10 +

The weekend is here and you’re hungry to get out and try something new. And yes I meant to be that bad. Dine Out Vancouver – coming very soon!!!! Spend some time online figuring out where you are going to hit up for dine out.  I have personally checked out the dishes at Romer’s Burgers,…

Hot Chocolate Festival Alert!

EVENT ALERT!  The VANCOUVER HOT CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL is back for its fourth year, and this time, even more chocolate makers have come together  to spike their hot chocolate drinks with the wildest, most delicious flavours you can imagine. 25 CHOCSTARS — 28 DAYS — 60+ CRAZY FLAVOURS! How much fun is that?! January 18 – February 14, 2014. Chocolate will…

Gung Haggis Fat Choy Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner

EVENT ALERT! This is an event not to be missed.  I may just be reciting some poetry here. GLV When Scottish and Chinese cultures blend in Gung Haggis Fat Choy.  Enjoy traditional Chinese New Year’s foods along with HAGGIS. January 26 2014 Floata Restaurant 180 Keefer Street Vancouver COST: $65 single ticket or $625 for table of…

Gob Squad’s Kitchen

EVENT ALERT! The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival & Salt Tasting Room January 16 Dinner served at 6:00 p.m. Salt Tasting Room, 45 Blood Alley Performance at 8:00 p.m. SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival pairs a delicious three-course meal at Salt Tasting Room with a performance of Gob…

Vancouver Foodster’s West End Brunch Crawl

EVENT ALERT! Brunch Crawl – West End Presented by Vancouver Foodster and the West End BIA January 19 $40 10am, 4 hours Meet at Marquis Wine Cellars, 1034 Davie Street Dine Out Van Fest does brunch! Presented by Vancouver Foodster and the West End BIA, this new event is sure to please anyone who loves…

Best Dishes of 2013 Part 4

Part 4 of my favourite eats from 2013 takes us to year end.  Some awesome new spots opened including Farmer’s Apprentice, Good Wolfe, Kessel and March, 1789 and Tuc Kitchen.  We revisited Kits Daily Kitchen, MARKET and went to the always delicious Cowichan Region, Salt Spring Island’s Sip and Savour and Hastings House, as well…