Having a Ball at Bel: Hawksworth Mini-Bites at Rosewood Hotel Georgia

By |2019-10-08T16:47:37-07:00December 2nd, 2011|Belly's Best Bites, Belly's Budget Best, Ocean Wise, Sustainable|

Roasted Berkshire pork sandwich with red cabbage and mustard, Tim Pawsey photo The buzz at the Rosewood Georgia Hotel is mainly all about Hawksworth, and rightly so. But now newly unveiled "little sister" Bel Café, named after chef David Hawksworth's wife Annabel, and which wraps around the corner of Georgia and Howe, is [...]

In Vancouver’s Yaletown, this Newbie Pig is Really Flying

By |2018-01-21T15:05:38-08:00October 30th, 2011|Belly's Best Bites, Belly's Budget Best, Hired Belly's Best Wines, Ocean Wise, Wine|

The Flying Pig's skirt steak—the real deal, Tim Pawsey photo It just goes to show; you can never know what to expect on a Vancouver Monday night. One recent, still dry October soirée, you could have fired a proverbial cannon down most of Yaletown’s narrow streets, so who knew that we’d only just [...]

On Vancouver’s Robson Street, (and on West Broadway) Everything Old is Nu Again

By |2019-02-10T11:04:01-08:00October 5th, 2011|Belly's Best Bites, Belly's Budget Best, Ocean Wise, Sustainable|

It’s a tasty irony indeed that Nu Greek Robson (542 Robson St., Vancouver) is right next door to Japadog (530 Robson St.)  Somehow the notion of having a direct descendant of the city’s original souvlaki mainstay side by side with east-meets-west hotdog heaven adds up to perfect bookends: a capsule of Vancouver’s ethnic [...]

In Vancouver, BC, Chef Meets Grape. And Sustainable Pink Salmon too

By |2019-11-19T16:42:25-08:00September 28th, 2011|Belly's Best Bites, Belly's Budget Best, Hired Belly's Best Wines, Ocean Wise, Sustainable|

Updated. April 13th, 2012. Here's a pretty solid endorsement of properly handled FAS salmon: Vancouver chefs salute FAS salmon Maybe it's a tipping point. A few things occured to me concerning the winner we picked at last week’s Chef Meets Grape Small Plates Challenge, organised by the BC Wine Institute. First of all, congrats [...]

Vancouver Icon Bishop’s Celebrates the Season with Harvest Table Dinners

By |2022-06-18T14:55:46-07:00September 8th, 2011|Belly's Best Bites, Ocean Wise, Sustainable, Uncategorized|

Not to pour cold water on Dine Out Vancouver’s impressive record, but we’ve always wondered why so many people wait for January to roll around, when there are other worthy dining deals on offer at all times of the year. Case in point: Bishop’s Harvest Table dinners (September 13th through October 20th), where [...]

Edible Canada at the Market: A Tasty chat with Eric Pateman

By |2021-11-15T09:05:37-08:00August 18th, 2011|Belly's Best Bites, Belly's Budget Best, Ocean Wise, Travel|

Cheers! Eric Pateman's original Vancouver culinary concierge business has grown rapidly in just four years, Tim Pawsey photo Now Closed. The other day we checked out Edible Canada at the Market, the new, all-things-very-culinary-Canuckish bistro on Granville Island, that opened—appropriately—on Canada Day. As it turned out, getting there proved to be half [...]

Taste Victoria’s Festival of Food & Wine Yields a Wealth of Local Flavours

By |2023-11-02T17:04:25-07:00July 26th, 2011|Ocean Wise, Travel, Wine|

  Off-leash and delicious Dogfish at The London Chef, Tim Pawsey photo  Taste 2012 runs July 19-22. Read about last year's below—then book this year's here! We’re just back from Victoria, where we took in a couple of days at Taste Victoria—the very successful food and wine celebration organised by culinary tourism maven [...]

Vancouver’s Gord Martin Dumps Bin 942 in Favour of Second Go Fish! (Now closed)

By |2021-11-20T08:38:32-08:00July 1st, 2011|Belly's Best Bites, Belly's Budget Best, Ocean Wise, Sustainable|

Gord Martin took a 2004 gamble with Go Fish and won, Tim Pawsey photo Updated: Please note: this location is closed. But the original outdoor location is still thriving ...   One of the rewards of taking too many photos is that eventually you can always find a reason to use at least [...]

Fresh | Local | Wild: Taking it to the Street with Taste, Vancouver Style

By |2018-01-21T15:05:40-08:00June 20th, 2011|Belly's Best Bites, Belly's Budget Best, Ocean Wise|

We can’t get over how easy it is to grab a quick bite on Vancouver streets these days. Heading down to the Wines of Chile trade tasting last week, we realised we’d need some pre-sipping sustenance. The answer? How handy! Almost across the street from the Fairmont Pacific Rim (well, at Hastings & [...]

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