The Ultimate Customized Wine Tour: Striking Gold in Burgundy

By |2023-03-03T15:18:49-08:00August 24th, 2021|Latest Posts, Top Drops, Travel, Wine|

Updated August 25th, 2021... I recently caught up with Youri Lebault, by phone. During the pandemic the owner of Bourgogne Gold Tour has been rethinking what he’s been doing since he started in 1999. In June he purchased a Mercedes Marco Polo luxury camper van, to offer a truly unique kind of tour. Youri [...]

Buy BC: EAT DRINK LOCAL Hails the New Era of BC Cuisine

By |2020-05-17T19:51:32-07:00May 6th, 2018|Beer, Dining, Wine|

Buy BC: Eat Drink Local? Sounds like a plan! Although, hard to believe now but there was a time when the last thing anyone wanted was to ‘eat local.’ And don’t even get me started on the wine thing. Or maybe you should. I’m truly pleased to see the return of Buy BC, especially with [...]

Natural Wines Blossom in Canada’s Okanagan

By |2018-01-21T15:05:00-08:00October 3rd, 2017|Wine, Wine Reviews|

Natural wines. Coming to a glass near you, soon. Natural Wine Defined What’s a natural wine, you might ask? It means the wine in your glass is in the purest possible form. It's the closest it can be to the fruit that was in the vineyard, preferably organically or bio-dynamically farmed. Most likely it’s made with [...]

Lure: Ned Bell’s Definitive Sustainable Seafood Cookbook

By |2022-04-16T10:34:35-07:00September 21st, 2017|Ocean Wise, Dining, Lifestyle, Sustainable|

Lure is the latest project from Chef Ned Bell. He’s the founder of Chefs for Oceans, who, in 2014, cycled across Canada. He took time out from his post as executive chef of Vancouver's Four Seasons to raise awareness for seafood sustainability. Since then he’s been even busier with a big career move. And spent [...]

Britagne: The ‘Champagne’ of British Bubble

By |2023-11-12T10:22:58-08:00November 14th, 2015|Wine|

Cava, Proseccco, Spumante, Sekt, Cap Classique.  There’s no end of monikers for effervescent efforts that mimic Champagne—even if in Canada we’ve yet to come up with our own handle beyond, truly riveting, ‘Methode Traditionelle.’  The fact is: Champagne and sparkling wine sales are booming just about everywhere. That’s good news for consumers, who are [...]

Goodbye Raincity Grill & C: Agents of Real Change

By |2021-11-15T23:39:07-08:00November 17th, 2014|Dining|

Raincity Grill owner Harry Kambolis, at Nu, 2005 Raincity closes Whatever the circumstances, I was saddened by last week’s shuttering of long-running Raincity Grill and, not that long before, of C Restaurant, owned by Harry Kambolis. In the fickle world of dining there are any number of reasons as to why restaurants come [...]

Golden Mile Bench Approved as Okanagan Valley’s First Sub-Appellation

By |2018-01-21T15:05:15-08:00October 17th, 2014|Wine|

South Okanagan, including the proposed Golden Mile Bench, from Anarchist Mtn., Tim Pawsey photo Updated: October 17th, 2014 ... GOLDEN MILE APPROVED AS BC's FIRST SUB G-I As per the British Columbia Grape Authority: "Golden Mile Bench" Sub-GI Application On May 20, 2014 the Authority received an application from a group of proponents [...]

First Bites at Vancouver’s Fat Badger

By |2019-01-17T07:39:54-08:00June 15th, 2014|Beer, Belly's Best Bites|

The Fat Badger: making good use of a familiar space CLOSED   I knew when I walked into The Fat Badger (1616 Alberni St., Vancouver) for the first time that it would stir my emotions. After all, there are few buildings in Vancouver with which I have a stronger connection than this West End [...]

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