From the monthly archives:

August 2010

Vancouver’s L’Abattoir: Gastown’s newest destination

August 27, 2010

Tuned up heritage bar and dining lounge adds up to historic district’s latest lively lure Walk into Gastown’s newest star, L’Abattoir (217 Carrall St., 604-568-1701) and the first person you’ll likely meet is Shaun Layton, who runs everything bar-wise here.  Shaun is one of the best. We know that, having watched him and tasted his efforts [...]

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Vancouver’s Smoking Dog Bistro Returns to its Roots

August 19, 2010

If you can’t teach an old dog new tricks … maybe you should just go with what works Just how much does a restaurant always identify with its founder? Every time we wind up at Vancouver’s Smoking Dog Bistro we can’t help but think of its founder Jean Claude Ramond, the feisty, pint-sized but tough [...]

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Canadian Wine Marketer Christine Coletta Unveils her Own Wine

August 16, 2010

Coletta goes haywire. Not! BC’s newest wine, for this week at least, is Haywire—which just also happens to be the latest brainchild of Christine Coletta, the long-time (and arguably most savvy) Canadian wine marketer. It was her efforts, way back in the early ‘90s, that contributed greatly to putting BC wines on the world map, [...]

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Red Wine and Fish? It All Depends …

August 15, 2010

This week we managed to get our hands on a sizeable, freshly caught Robson Bight Sockeye, which has already served us deliciously well. As we were busy butchering and deboning we found ourselves wondering about wine. Again. It must be a couple of decades since Joshua Wesson’s ground-breaking book Red Wine with Fish: the new [...]

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Victoria Spirits Finds the Sweet Spot with Bitters

August 2, 2010

We’re Sweet on Victoria Spirits Twisted & Bitter One of our best discoveries at this year’s Taste Victoria was Twisted & Bitter (Orange), the latest from Victoria Sprits. It’s a new ‘twist’ on the old theme that bitters can be not only stomach settling but seriously bump things up a notch when it comes to [...]

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