On January 25, 2015 we presented the fourth crawl in a series of neighborhood brunch crawls in this 2nd year of our brunch crawl series we produced and presented with the Downtown Vancouver BIA and Tourism Vancouver for their Dine Out Festival. This event was a super success for all who attended. Participants had a chance to visit 8 restaurants through-out the downtown area and taste all sorts of dishes on this unique food crawl.
Our registration spot was at The Kingston Taphouse & Grill where everyone started on the brunch tour.
Kingtson Taphouse & Grill
Cornbeef hash
Banger w/ confit cherry tomato
Gravlax w/ dill & chive hollandaise and buttermilk biscuit
Frankie’s Italian Kitchen
Chicken and Waffles
Rossdown farms chicken, vanilla butter, crisp waffle
Monsieur Andre – Griddle rye bread filled with brie, fontina cheese, soprasetta, prosciutto, egg and hollandaise
Shuraku Sake & Bistro
California roll with migas
Imitation crab, avocado, cucumber with migas crumbs coated around.
Signature BBQ Back Rib
Fall off the bone baby back rib with signature teriyaki sauce.
Green salad with sesame onion dressing.
Seasonal green gomaae
Broccoli and green bean marinated with sweet sesame purée.
Bella Gelateria Yaletown
Italian Toast
Il Tricolore Brunch Pizza
Chocolate G Cookie with Tahitian Vanilla Gelato
Small Victory Bread & Coffee
Chocolate Hazelnut Croissant
Almond and Blueberry Brioche
A Surprise Pastry by Small Victory
And
Valrhona Hot Chocolate
Traditional Cappuccino (made with Quebradon Columbia Espresso by Bows and Arrows)
The Copper Chimney
Butter Chicken
Basmati rice
Garlic naan bread
Nourish Vancouver
The Breakfast Sandwich
– Frittata made with farm fresh eggs, filled with roasted leeks, kale and shiitake mushrooms served with a kale hazelnut pesto on a whole wheat flatbread. Topped with radish sprouts.
Cold Pressed Juices from The Juice Box (Carrot Orange Ginger, Light Green)
Dark Chocolate Ganache – from Living Lotus
Trees Organic
Savoury spinach & feta scone
Sweet raspberry white chocolate scone
Single origin fair trade organic coffee from the Penachi region of Peru
The restaurants featured many unique and tasty dishes to our guests to eat and drink throughout the event.
Thank you to our photographer Michelle Hondl for capturing the brunch event so well.
Vancouver Foodster is excited to be presenting 6 brunch crawls in 6 different neighborhoods throughout this 2015 festival, see our other events here, grab your tickets and come join us.!
By: Richard Wolak