Vancouver dining

Languedoc Rocks Vancouver By the Glass — Win a Wine Bar Crawl!*

October 12, 2013

Siena's hazelnut chocolate torte—even better with Babio Minervois Red

* Tweet or FaceBook a selfie in one of the four participating wine bars, featuring Languedoc wines (you can grab a coaster, or hold up your wineglass), post it with the hash tag #LanguedocVan, and enter to WIN one of four $100 Gift Certificates to one of the wine bars. The Hired Belly […]

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A Tale of Kale: One of the Healthiest Cookbooks Ever …

September 13, 2013

UPDATE: Congratulations to Queen of Kale Sharon Hanna! A Tale of Kale—The Book of Kale: The Easy-to-Grow Superfood—won the 2013 Taste Canada Single Subject Cookbook Award. “It has real personality and charm and the overall results are delicious.” “The book has integrity, heart and pure deliciousness.” – The jury The Hired Belly has been busy […]

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1789 Restaurant & Lounge Now Open

August 18, 2013

1789 It’s official! The space formerly known as Samson’s Squeeze is now open, as 1789 Restaurant & Lounge. When it comes to naming your restaurant, just picking the right number can be the simplest solution. After all the kerfuffle surrounding the choice of name, owners Daryle Nagata and Paul Puratich opted for the obvious, calling […]

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The Rain at Grain Stays Mainly on the Pane

August 9, 2013

Dramatic views of the downtown core, table side

Grain’s slide-away wall brings Burrard Street right inside Regional cuisine is not what first used to come to mind at The Hyatt Regency Vancouver. However, all that has now changed. The main floor bar (just off the lobby, overlooking Burrard near Melville) has been convincingly reinvented and remodeled as Grain Tasting Bar (655 Burrard St., […]

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West End’s Celebrated Delilah’s (almost) Re-emerges as Café Delilah. But Now Will Not.

August 5, 2013

"Unforeseen and challenging circumstances" mean that "Delilah

UPDATE: This from the restaurant’s Facebook page… Due to unforeseen and challenging circumstances, the owners of this restaurant’s Facebook page, Daryle Nagata and Paul Puratich, will be shutting down this account and its associated Twitter and Instagram feeds as of 8pm on August 1. The business partners will open their restaurant in the same location, […]

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Chicha Brings Vibrant, Modern Peruvian Cuisine to Vancouver

July 12, 2013

A Chicha highlight: quinoa salad with red onion, mango and avocado plus jalapeño and Haucatay dressing

Chicha: tasty, healthy and novel plates Chicha, 136 East Broadway, between Quebec and Main, 604-620-3693. Open for dinner nightly; for lunch maybe in the fall. Even after more than a few years in this business, I never fail to be impressed when people hit the ground running. When I bumped into chef Shelome Bouvette, […]

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Chef Hamid Salimian bids farewell to Diva at the Met

May 17, 2013

Chaf Hamid Salimian: on the move TP photo

It’s been only a matter of weeks since we were raving about Chef Hamid Salimian and his remarkable Persian inspired tasting menu at Diva at the Met. But Chef Hamid is on the move. June 4th, 2013, will be his last day at Diva before he leaves to take up teaching in Culinary Arts at Vancouver Community College. When […]

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5 Reasons Why, Even in the Rain, this Cactus will Soon be Flourishing

May 7, 2013

Cactus Club Coal Harbour Vancouver Sea to Sky Terrace: It

Last night we dropped by Cactus Club Coal Harbour to check it out on what more than passed for a spectacular Summer’s afternoon. Here’s what we found, inside looking out from that “giant dormer” mentioned further on … Essentially, at the the push of a button, the entire wall of windows slides aside to bring […]

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Fat Bastard Revisited and Gabrielle Meffre at Le Crocodile (Video)

April 20, 2013

I’m not sure why but I always figured that cheekily named “Fat Bastard” had to have something to do either with the guy who might drink it (me) or the guys who made it—Thierry Boudinaud and Guy Anderson. But here’s the real story, as told by Fat Bastard co-owner (and Gabrielle Meffre globe-trotting sommelier) Anthony Taylor. […]

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Tapping In: Wine on Tap Continues to Pour It On

April 17, 2013

There’s plenty going on at Vancouver Urban Winery these days—including wine on tap at Gastown’s soon to be open TUC Craft Kitchen. They’ve even re-purposed a couple of vintage fire extinguishers as part of the deal! Yesterday we were tasting Blasted Church Hatfield’s Fuse on tap from a portable unit at Brix Restaurant. The occasion […]

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