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GPS Wine Touring in Style with the 2013 Acura RDX Tech

June 14, 2012
Sleek and sporty: 2013 Acura RDX, image supplied

I started my recent wine tour of the Okanagan Valley a little early, right in Vancouver, to be precise. This time I left behind my own car in favour of a swish, spacious and sporty, titanium 2013 Acura RDX Tech, courtesy of Acura Canada—just like the one in The Avengers! Aside from just about everything else, […]

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

August 18, 2011

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 the fun. I’d forgotten how enjoyable it is to take the ferry across False Creek–especially on a perfect summer’s day. But as I […]

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Get out and Vote at Zagat—Especially if you’re Up on the Okanagan

August 11, 2011

The current Zagat Survey of key restaurants in Vancouver, Victoria and Whistler—and the Okanagan Valley—is now under way. You can vote on line here. The survey period runs until September 25, 2011 and you may vote either all at once or in a number of sessions—whatever works for you. In the last edition, we included […]

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

July 26, 2011

 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 Kathy McAree, who runs Travel with Taste. It’s good to see this event really […]

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Victoria’s Best Elevator View—and Other Uplifting Secrets of the Hotel Grand Pacific

July 13, 2011

When we were judging the Lieutenant Governor’s Awards of Excellence in Victoria, B.C., we stayed at the Hotel Grand Pacific, which, it strikes me, is one of the capital’s better, if largely unsung hotels.  In fact, we’ve rested our head on HGP’s pillows a number of times over the last few years but rarely had […]

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Nothing Like a Little Languedoc to Get Your Roussillon — Hey Waiter! There’s Garrigue in my Wine!

June 10, 2011

We had an excellent tasting recently with the folks from Languedoc and Roussillon. It’s a region that gets surprisingly little attention, especially considering the character of the wines and the value they deliver at most price points. Over the years, however, I think the entry level wines in particular have suffered from being mixed in […]

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Time to Exorcise Excise: The Perils of Cross Border ‘Smuggling’ in Canada

May 13, 2011

Amazing how a guy driving through the Rockies with a couple of boxes of wine in his trunk can get people so stirred up: All power to Terry David Mulligan for single handedly bringing this issue to such prominence. If you’re not familiar with the topic, you can read up on it in this excellent Wine […]

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WHERE Vancouver Announces 15th Annual Where to Dine Awards

April 28, 2011

WHERE Vancouver (to whom the Hired Belly supplies considerable calorific content) yesterday unveiled the 15TH Annual Where to Dine Awards. The well attended (and well-run) event was hosted in superb fashion by Blue Water Café, who, as usual, catered to their industry peers with an array of seafood towers, sushi and more, not to mention […]

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What’s in a Name? If You’re BC’s Principal Grape Growing Region, Plenty

April 26, 2011

We’re still sorting through our notes from this year’s South Okanagan Banée. But this was the major news… Here’s our column as it appears in this weekend’s North Shore News: Over the last six months, the South Okanagan Wineries Association (SOWA) has been on the quest for a new identity. While organizations often rebrand, SOWA’s […]

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A Little Sauvignon Blanc Post-Ballot? Kiwi Wine Fair Rewards for Voting

April 23, 2011

  Time to mark the calendar for May 2nd. Yes, it’s Election Day in Canada but more to the point, it’s the day the Kiwis roll into Vancouver for the annual New Zealand Wine Fair, this year at The Roundhouse —so you can take the Canada Line to right across the street. Hard to believe, […]

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