Join us for dinner at 9 restaurants, tea houses, patisserie & a food truck that will be participating in the event which will take place in Chinatown and Strathcona. Each of the establishments will be doing tasting plates of their various dishes, and some will be offering beverages as well. Each ticket includes all of the dishes at each of the 9 participating establishments as listed below.
We are using this hashtag in our tweets #TastingPlatesYVR and @VanFoodster – please include in your tweets during our event.
Registration: Beta 5 at 413 Industrial Avenue (parking lot) -this is where you will show us your printed or digital tickets and will pick up your Tasting Plates Cards. Registration will open at 5:45pm and this is where you will pick up your Tasting Plate Cards for the evening *(you must show your printed ticket confirmation or eventbrite purchase code when registering at the event).
Visit each of the participating restaurants at your leisure by bike, moped, car, transit, walking, roller skates, skateboarding or carpooling.
Purchase tickets via Eventbrite:
http://tastingplatesyvrfall.eventbrite.com/
Participating restaurants and their menus for the evening event are as follows:
223 East Georgia Street
Twitter: @eastofMAINcafe
Web: http://eastofmaincafe.com
Cuisine: Moroccan
Our Tasting Plate will include all of these 4 items:
1) Kefta skewer with spicy tomato sauce
2) Pâté with walnuts on endive
3) Spanish torta with mojo sauce (Vegetarian)
4) Spiced almond labneh with preserved lemon and herb salsa on a pita chip (Vegetarian)
243 Union Street
Twitter: @HarvestUnion
Web: http://harvestunion.ca/
Cuisine: Asian
Our Tasting Plate will include this item:
1) Ramen with Fraser Valley pork shoulder and SOLEfood radish.
413 Industrial Avenue
Twitter: @Beta5chocolates
Web: http://beta-5.com/
Cuisine: Desserts
Our Tasting Plate will include all of these 3 items:
1) Seasonal cream puff
2) Hot chocolate
3) Gingerbread caramel
Location: 413 Industrial Avenue
Twitter: @PazzaRellaPizza
Web: http://pazzarella.ca/
Cuisine: Wood Fired Pizza
Our Tasting Plate will feature a slice of your choice of these pizzas:
1) Margherita, Spicy Salami w/Mushroom, Bacon and a Feta pizza
227 East Georgia Street
Twitter: @TreasureGreen_T
Web: http://www.treasuregreen.com/
Cuisine: Chinese Tea House
Our Tasting Plate will include all of these 3 items:
1) Treasure Green Extra Virgin Tea Oil dips
2) Smoky Tea Tofu
3) Our 2012 Treasure Green Seasons Blend (hot tea) prepared in tea ceremony style.
400-180 Keefer Street
Web: http://www.floata.com/
Cuisine: Chinese
Our Dim Sum Tasting Plate will include all of these 4 items:
1) BBQ Pork Bun
2) Vegetable Spring Roll
3) Sesame Ball
4) Soya Sauce Chow Mein
296 Keefer Street
Web: http://www.oysterexpress.ca/
Twitter: @oysterexpress
Cuisine: Oysters & Soul Food
Our Tasting Plate will include this item:
1) One local beach oyster
101 East Pender Street
Web: http://www.thechineseteashop.com/
Twitter: @chinese_teashop
Cuisine: Chinese Tea House
Our Tasting Plate (cups) will include all of these 3 items:
Green Tea: Cloud Mist Green Tea
Oolong Tea: Taiwan Dong Ding Oolong, Ginseng Oolong
Pu-erh Tea: Mini Tao Black Pu-erh
We will be giving guests a brief tea lesson on the benefits of tea and demonstrate how to make the tea in the GongFu Cha style.
928 Main Street
Web: http://electricowl.ca/
Twitter: @electricowl_ca
Cuisine: Asian
Our Tasting Plate will include all of these 4 items:
1) Mini Eggplant sub
Our take on a vegetarian vietnamese sub.
Golden-fried, panko-breaded eggplant served on a tiny baguette-style sub bun. Sweet and savory red pepper almond spread, house pickled julienned vegetables, cucumber and Sriracha mayo.
2) Fukuro Burger Sliders
Our in house chuck beef slider patty, on a mini brioche bun with sweet and savoury tomato jam, wasabi slaw and butter lettuce.
3) MiniSakana Chipu
Grey Goose battered ling cod bite on shoestring potatoes with tartar sauce, and red cabbage slaw.
4) Red Bean and Lemon Zest Panna Cotta
Rich and creamy red bean paste panna cotta with a hint of lemon zest. Accompanied with blueberry puree.
Purchase tickets via Eventbrite:
http://tastingplatesyvrfall.eventbrite.com/
Advance Tickets: $30 per person (eventbrite fee extra). $100 for 4 pak of tickets or $120 for 6 pak of tickets (get a group of your friends/family together and save by purchasing a 4 pak or a 6 pak (eventbrite fee extra). Tickets $40 per person (eventbrite fee extra) after November 18th.
Ticket price includes tasting plates at each of the participating restaurants throughout the evening. A donation of $3 from each ticket purchased will go to support Project Limelight. (Beverages are included at some restaurants which will be noted, you are welcome to purchase wine, beer, cocktails or mocktails at each of the participating restaurants).
Thank you to our Tent sponsor: Lonsdale Event Rentals
Charity Partner
Note: ALL Tickets must be purchased in advance online. All ticket sales are final. No exchanges or refunds; however they are transferrable with printed proof of ticket. Event produced by CMI Chat Media Inc