Chef Dino Renaerts
Vancouver is home to some of the best chefs in the world, many have worked for the top chefs and restaurants around the world as well as around the city. Dishing with the Chefs is a series of Interviews with…
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Sweetheart Afternoon Tea at the Urban Tea Merchant
I indulged in their Sweetheart Afternoon Tea last week with a little pre-Valentine’s day tasting pleasure. To begin I was served a Tea cocktail that was made with champagne infused tea along with a strawberry tea sorbet that was so…
Valentine’s Day Giveaway: Win Chocolates & Perfumes
I love Chocolate, who doesn’t, to celebrate my love for Chocolate and sweet scents I present my Valentine’s Giveaway partnering with Cocoa Nymph Chocolates & Ayala Moriel Parfums! I am giving away (in partnership with Cocoa Nymph) a Valentine’s chocolate…
Chef Tobey Nemeth
Vancouver is home to some of the best chefs in the world, many have worked for the top chefs and restaurants around the world as well as around the city. Dishing with the Chefs is a series of Interviews with…
Chef David Wong
Vancouver is home to some of the best chefs in the world, many have worked for the top chefs and restaurants around the world as well as around the city. Dishing with the Chefs is a series of Interviews with…
Fillo Pastry Making Workshops
Feb 19th at 2pm – Workshop I (approx 2 hours long) I will be participating in this Fillo Pastry Workshop where Poppy Siormanolakis will teach — Learning to work with store bought fillo pastry! Small intimated Classes For those wanting…
Chef Alex Tung
Vancouver is home to some of the best chefs in the world, many have worked for the top chefs and restaurants around the world as well as around the city. Dishing with the Chefs is a series of Interviews with…
Glowbal Group Dine Out 2011
I was invited to a menu tasting preview at Society, Glowbal Grill & Sanafir for their Dine Out menu last night. At Society a 3 course meal for $18 is being offered or $35 per person with wine pairings, at…
Charm Modern Thai Dine Out 2011
I was invited to taste a preview of the Dine Out menu for Charm Modern Thai who is offering a 3 course menu for $28. I had the opportunity to taste a selection of the appetizers including the Tiger Prawn…
Interview with Marcelo Romero
Restaurateur | Vancouver You grew up in Mexico, did you work in the restaurant industry there? In what capacity? Yes I grew up in Gguadalajara in Mexico, at 17 years old I worked for my families restaurant and hotel business….
Taste The World February 22
The other night we held a tasting preview for media hosted by Calabash Bistro and had some delicious food and rum cocktails courtesy of Calabash Bistro along with an outstanding musical performance by Gio Escueta. On February 22nd we will…
Chef Chris Whittaker
Vancouver is home to some of the best chefs in the world, many have worked for the top chefs and restaurants around the world as well as around the city. Dishing with the Chefs is a series of Interviews with…
Contest: Win a copy of Mangia with Quattro Cookbook
Italian food, from the Corsi family to yours. For the Corsis, owners of Vancouver’s popular Quattro restaurants, the most important things in life are sharing simple meals with friends, cooking with fresh ingredients, drinking joyously, and living with abbondanza (Italian…
Tales of the Cocktail on Tour Vancouver March 13-15
For eight years, Tales of the Cocktail® has been bringing cocktail aficionados from around the world to New Orleans, for the most spirited event of the year. For the first time, this internationally acclaimed cocktail festival is taking its show…
Wild Rice’s Year of the Rabbit Chinese New Year Menu
One ancient Chinese axiom states that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing at least twice. Consider New Yea’s for instance. There’s the mainstream New Year’s Eve held on December 31st – a rather sedate affair by…
Dine Out Vancouver Picks
Here is a primer on how to choose the best restaurants in Vancouver for Dine Out that runs January 24 – February 6th. You may want to listen to my segment on CBC The Early Edition when I talked in…
Blue Mountain and Friends: A Feast for the Senses
Join us on Monday, January 17, 2011 for an evening celebrating the premium wines of BC’s Blue Mountain Vineyard and Cellars. The event will be grazing style which will allow guests to wander the room sampling wines paired with cuisine…
Chef Ryan Gauthier
Vancouver is home to some of the best chefs in the world, many have worked for the top chefs and restaurants around the world as well as around the city. Dishing with the Chefs is a series of Interviews with…
WIN 2 Tickets to “The Inside Taste”
Enter to WIN 2 Tickets to “The Inside Taste” A Sustainable Plate & Pairing on January 20 at the Vancouver Aquarium, the ticket winners will not only attend the event, you will join me @vanfoodster and be my co-reporters covering…
Dine Out Vancouver Events: Something New
To mark the 9th Annual Dine Out celebration, Tourism Vancouver has added many new and exciting food and wine related events taking place in January and February. Here are a few of the events that you are going to want…
Interview with Desmond Chen
Restaurateur | Vancouver You were a teenager when you started working in your family’s restaurant business, what jobs did you do from the beginning? At 13, I worked part-time, after school and on weekends, and also during the summer months…
Favourite Meals of 2010
Being a food writer I have been fortunate to dine in some amazing restaurants around the Vancouver area, lots of my meals were good but the ones on this list were extraordinary in all senses. 1) Dinner on the Floating…