Five Sails Chef Alex Kim is primed! Updated, Feb 2, 2025… Congratulations to Alex Kim and team, whose “Taste of Pacific Northwest” has won gold at the Canadian Culinary Championship. Obviously, the judges were as wowed as I was! Congrats also to Silver winner Moncton chef Jordan Holden of [...]
Forage is closing. How sad! The hyper locally-focused destination room in the Listel Hotel will serve its final seating at brunch on November 17th. Its demise comes after just 12 years. During that time Forage has set the pace for sustainable dining in Vancouver. And it’s done so with singular focus and conviction that few, [...]
Hy’s Vancouver is celebrating its 60th anniversary. That’s no small achievement in a place like Vancouver, which surely has one of the most fickle dining scenes anywhere.
Dine Out Vancouver (Jan 14-Jan 31 is at 20 years and counting! It’s a milestone well worth celebrating. No question, Dine Out Vancouver has transformed the city’s dining landscape in myriad ways.
Several dishes stood out from our tasting, a multi regional showcase for Tutto Chef Omar Hadi’s offerings. Topping the list, porcini brown butter further enlivens an already flavourful beef short-rib ravioli.
This week’s Vancouver Somm Smackdown turned out to be a fitting way to celebrate 30 years of BC VQA, on many levels. The BC Wine Institute and CAPS BC-sponsored ‘Smackdown’ featured dishes from three chefs, their plates matched with a wine pairing from each of three sommeliers. Our task was to pick what we considered [...]
I’m truly saddened to learn that Burnaby’s long-running The PearTree is closing. Since its opening in 1998, the restaurant has been a beacon of regional cuisine. In fact, in the late 1990s, it was one of the first ‘fine dining’ rooms to establish away from downtown Vancouver. (One of the originals was Bruno Marti’s Le [...]
Provence Marinaside joins the list of re-openings in Vancouver, which have been coming thick and fast this week. That’s really good news. How reassuring to see all those familiar names returning to whatever the new normal might be. Of course, many never completely shut down but switched to takeout almost without [...]
In a Vancouver still ruled by straight-jacket liquor laws they came also for late night tea pots—filled with beer. The code name was cold tea. And all you had to do was ask.
