No Shortage of #SkillsnSpills at Crazy BC Hospitality Foundation Fundraiser

By |2018-01-21T15:05:23-08:00October 21st, 2013|Belly's Best Bites|

Triumphant! Yaletown Distilling Co. takes top honours Updated: This year's event: Date:    November 9th, 2014 Time:   1.00 to 5:00pm Location: Hellenic Community Center - 4500 Arbutus St, Vancouver, BC Tickets: By donation at door     From last year... It was a fun time yesterday at the first annual Skills ‘n Spills fundraiser for the [...]

Languedoc Rocks Vancouver By the Glass — Win a Wine Bar Crawl!*

By |2018-01-21T15:05:23-08:00October 12th, 2013|Belly's Best Bites, Wine|

    * Tweet or FaceBook a selfie in one of the four participating wine bars, featuring Languedoc wines (you can grab a coaster, or hold up your wineglass), post it with the hash tag #LanguedocVan, and enter to WIN one of four $100 Gift Certificates to one of the wine bars.   The Hired Belly [...]

A Tale of Kale: One of the Healthiest Cookbooks Ever …

By |2018-01-21T15:05:24-08:00September 13th, 2013|Sustainable|

UPDATE: Congratulations to Queen of Kale Sharon Hanna! A Tale of Kale—The Book of Kale: The Easy-to-Grow Superfood—won the 2013 Taste  Canada Single Subject Cookbook Award. “It has real personality and charm and the overall results are delicious.” “The book has integrity, heart and pure deliciousness.” – The jury Sharon Hanna, Joe Lederer photo [...]

The Rain at Grain Stays Mainly on the Pane

By |2022-04-16T10:51:59-07:00August 9th, 2013|Belly's Best Bites|

 Grain’s slide-away wall brings Burrard Street right inside A breath of fresh air Regional cuisine is not what first used to come to mind at The Hyatt Regency Vancouver. However, all that has now changed. The main floor bar (just off the lobby, overlooking Burrard near Melville) has been convincingly reinvented and [...]

Chicha Brings Vibrant, Modern Peruvian Cuisine to Vancouver

By |2018-01-21T15:05:25-08:00July 12th, 2013|Belly's Best Bites, Belly's Budget Best, Restaurant Reviews|

Chicha: tasty, healthy and novel plates A Chicha highlight: quinoa salad with red onion, mango and avocado plus jalapeño and Haucatay dressing Chicha, 136 East Broadway, between Quebec and Main, 604-620-3693. Open for dinner nightly; for lunch maybe in the fall.   Even after more than a few years in this business, I [...]

5 Reasons Why, Even in the Rain, this Cactus will Soon be Flourishing

By |2023-03-03T17:57:12-08:00May 7th, 2013|Belly's Best Bites|

Cactus Club Coal Harbour is Vancouver's ultimate destination for a spectacular Summer's afternoon. Here's what we found, inside looking out from that "giant dormer" mentioned further on ... Essentially, at the the push of a button, the entire wall of windows slides aside to bring the outside in. They've dubbed it the "Sea to [...]

Fat Bastard Revisited and Gabrielle Meffre at Le Crocodile (Video)

By |2018-01-21T15:05:26-08:00April 20th, 2013|Belly's Best Bites, Belly's Budget Best, Hired Belly's Best Wines, Restaurant Reviews|

I’m not sure why but I always figured that cheekily named “Fat Bastard” had to have something to do either with the guy who might drink it (me) or the guys who made it—Thierry Boudinaud and Guy Anderson. But here's the real story, as told by Fat Bastard co-owner (and Gabrielle Meffre globe-trotting sommelier) Anthony Taylor.   [...]

Tapping In: Wine on Tap Continues to Pour It On

By |2021-08-25T08:52:22-07:00April 17th, 2013|Belly's Best Bites, Wine|

Image courtesy Tidings.ca There’s plenty going on at Vancouver Urban Winery these days—including wine on tap at Gastown’s soon to be open TUC Craft Kitchen. They’ve even re-purposed a couple of vintage fire extinguishers as part of the deal! Tap & Barrel kegs Yesterday we were tasting Blasted Church Hatfield’s Fuse [...]

The Roof at Black+Blue: Emad Yacoub Unwraps Another Stunner (Video)

By |2023-05-09T09:11:22-07:00April 13th, 2013|Belly's Best Bites|

  Black+Blue's Emad Yacoub with B+B exec chef Jason Labahn, TP photo I’m never really surprised but I am often amazed by what Emad Yacoub gets up to. He's the dynamo behind Vancouver’s ever-expanding Glowbal Group. Come April 25th, Yacoub will take things at Black & Blue Steakhouse to the next level—literally—when he officially opens  The [...]

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