If you are oven on Bowen Island be sure to check out this excellent exhibit! GLV No, this isn’t a recipe for disaster. It’s the title for a new exhibit opening at the Gallery at Artisan Square, 589 Artisan Lane on Bowen Island and these are the materials three artists belonging to the same family…
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Shane Mulvany Wins Angostura Bitters Canadian Cocktail Challenge
Cocktail enthusiasts headed to the Blackbird Public House & Oyster Bar in Vancouver where Toronto native Shane Mulvany took home the win with his Brian Lara Swizzle and Banana au Rum recipes. Mulvany works at The Chase in Toronto and also recently won the Hogtown Shakedown at Toronto’s Cocktail Week. Competitors had to make one…
Morning Strata
Udi’s Gluten Free challenged me to make something with their basket of gluten-free goodness that was sent my way. There were leftover veggies and pork in the fridge and it was breakfast time so let’s make a strata. What I like about this breakfast treat is that the ingredients are very flexible. Bread, eggs and…
Oyama Sausage Lationofest
Oyama Sausage this coming October 24 – 27th and spice up your weekend with a huge selection of house made sausages. This Latinofest features Cuban Chorizo, Chilean Chorizo, fresh Spanish Chorizo and Guacho (Argentinian) Chorizo. This is also the weekend when Boudin Noir and Morcilla are available. Made monthly, these delicacies don’t last long. Make sure…
Cook Hall at Market Shangri-La Hotel Vancouver
Until month end (October 2013) MARKET by Jean-Georges is featuring a southern influenced gastpub menu inspired by the hotel’s Atlanta location’s restaurant – Cook Hall. Atlanta chef David Gross stopped by for a few days to properly school Chef Montgomery Lau and his kitchen staff with tips for creating this interesting menu. This is a menu…
POSTPONED – PRIVATE TABLE, A SERIES OF GOURMET DINING EVENINGS IN LADNER, BC
POSTPONED! More soon on new dates. Clair’s Inn Ladner and Chef Tobias MacDonald announce the launch of a monthly series of gourmet dining events for small groups of discerning guests Clair Oates, owner/operator of Ladner’s Clair’s Inn welcomes Chef Tobias MacDonald to her gourmet kitchen where he will create culinary elegance in the Inn’s…
Who gets Sustenance? What’s Cooking DTES Neighbourhood House
On October 19th at noon learn how to cook quinoa, greens and have lunch too! We will be there. GLV A Community Dialogue on Dignified Access to Healthy Food for All People 12 – 3pm Hosted by: DTES Neighbourhood Food Network Location: DTES Neighbourhood House, 573 East Hastings St., Vancouver Join us for a fun afternoon…
Canadian Pork Sausage, Agassiz Hazelnut and Home Grown Sage Stuffed Canadian Pork Loin
This summer Put Pork on your Fork choose GLV for the recipe for Canadian Pork Loin. We did have a summer BBQ version but as the fall has crept in we recently did a fall one indoors. Go to your butcher and have he/she butterfly your pork. REALLY get to know your local butcher and…
Art for Thought Exhibit
(From October 16 – 22) Roundhouse Community Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver A Bright Green Future. What does this really mean for Vancouverites? How do we interpret words like ’sustainability’ and terms like ’environmental footprint’ or ’eating locally’ and then move into action? How do we make positive choices even if they may feel insignificant…
Foodies Unite on Oct. 17-20 Vancouver Home + Design Show
Events to check out if food is of interest. GLV Ned Bell Executive Chef, Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver Okanagan native Ned Bell is committed to creating globally inspired dishes with locally grown ingredients. As exclusive corporate chef at the Urban Cultivator and executive chef of the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver, which includes YEW seafood + bar,…
Hastings House Hosts Chef Denis Cotter for Chefs Across the Water
Each year Hastings House hosts guest chefs at their excellent country house hotel for an event entitled “Chefs Across the Water”. I’ve attended several of these events in the past, but they’ve never had an entirely vegetarian menu. In general I thought this was a good thing as I do like my meat; however after dining…
Languedoc Hits Vancouver Wine Bars by the Glass – Enter to WIN a Languedoc Wine Bar Crawl for Two!
This fall, Languedoc Wines are sponsoring an exciting new promotion in four of Vancouver’s top wine bars: The Wine Bar: 1167 Marinaside Crescent Brix: 1138 Homer Street Siena: 1485 West 12th Ave Seasons in the Park: Queen Elizabeth Park, West 33rd Avenue at Cambie Street From now until November 14th, four of Vancouver’s hottest wine…
Inaugural BCHF Industry Games Launches Oct 20 in Vancouver
Skills and Spills, the BC Hospitality Foundation‘s much-anticipated first-ever industry games, takes place on Sunday, October 20, 2013 at the Hellenic Cultural Centre (4500 Arbutus Street) in Vancouver from 12noon to 5pm. Registration opens at 10:30am. Skills and Spills is the industry’s chance to take a day off work, dress up in outlandish costumes, team…
CONTEST CLOSED #Win $50 Gift Cert for Oakridge Mall #Giveaway
Contest Closed Congrats to SANAZ! In honour of the Oakridge Style Heist GLV is giving away a $50 Gift Cert to Oakridge. To win: 1) Post “RT 2 win $50 gift cert from @goodlifevan to @Oakridgestyle http://ow.ly/pCu4r“ 2) Follow @goodlifevan 2) Leave a comment on this post as to your fav Oakridge store OAKRIDGE TO STAGE FIRST…
Sustenance Festival – The Art of Food Drying, Storing, Saving, and Scrapping
Tuesday, October 15 (7-9pm) Location: West End Community Centre (Bidwell Room), 870 Denman Street Host: West End Neighbourhood Food Network (WENFN) Reducing food waste has been identified as number two among the ‘Top 5’ biggest potential Ecological Footprint-reducing contributions being used by Vancouver’s Greenest City Lighter Footprint “Feet to the Fire” Committee as a baseline….
Vancouver Food Policy – Good Food For All
This lively discussion will focus on public policy in regards to food. A must for those concerned about food security and hosted by our friend Richard Wolak. GLV Please join us on October 16, World Food Day, as part of the Sustenance Festival to hear ideas and participate in a discussion of how we can…
Feast of 4th: Everyone Can Be A Foodie! – October 1 to 13
Lots of delicious events going on on West 4th in October. GLV In assocation with Kitsilano 4th Avenue Business Association OCTOBER 1 TO 13 – It’s the return of the West Side’s favourite food & drink celebration – West 4th’s FEAST OF 4TH restaurant & foodie promotion – Running October 1 to 13, 2013 (two…
Tasting Plates West 4th Ave October 6, 4pm – 9pm
Wander about 4th Ave tasting delicious food! Why not? GLV Tasting Plates will explore the West 4th neighborhood of Kitsilano in Vancouver. This tasting extravaganza goes from 4pm until 9pm on Sunday, October 6 and is presented by Vancouver Foodster. Each restaurant will be serving up Tasting Plates for guests to enjoy and you will have…
Salt Spring Island Festival of Local & Regional Food & Wine.
On Friday, September 27th and Saturday, September 28th, Sip & Savour Salt Spring unites growers, food producers, chefs and vintners & brewers from Salt Spring Island and the Vancouver Island region with local and BC vintners in a mélanges a trois of culinary magic. Participate in National Organic Week by sampling local, fresh food and…
Feed Ur SoL Hosted by Chef Abdel Elatouabi of SoL Sun Belt Cookery
Chef Abdel Elatouabi invites you to come down to SoL Sun Belt Cookery the afternoon of Sunday, October 6th to Feed Ur SoL – Sounds pretty tasty! GLV Tickets Include: Moroccan BBQ Live Music Noon – till fiveish… Your $35 ticket includes Moroccan Salads Kasbah Wild Salmon Saffron Chicken Kebab Homemade Merguez Sausages Succulent Lamb on the Spit…
