Road 13 Vineyards & Joy Road Catering Team Up for a Not-to-be-Missed Epicurean Dinner

Locally sourced and impeccably paired … TP photo

If you’re a regular visitor here, you’ll know that one of the best meals we enjoyed last year was a lunch that blended the talents of Joie Farm and Joy Road Catering.

Joy Road returns to Vancouver on April 3rd, this time for a dinner with Road 13 Vineyards at Vancouver Urban Winery. Guaranteed, it will be a good time, as Road 13 will be rolling out a few of their harder to find drops, starting with the perennially award winning Chenin Blanc bubble.

Cameron Smith and Dana Ewart of Joy Road Catering, supplied

Check the menu below for a sense of what’s meant by “Cuisine du Terroir” and you’ll see why Joy Road is so in demand. (And if you can’t make this dinner but want to catch up them in the Okanagan, have a look at their events page.)

Another good reason to attend? If you haven’t yet managed to check out Vancouver Urban Winery, here’s a good chance to see what’s driving the wine on tap craze that’s sweeping Canada (from west to east, btw…).

Tickets are going fast but you can still score some at: www.joyroad13.eventbrite.ca.

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Joy Road Catering & Road 13 Vineyards Country in the City Menu – April 3rd, 2013

Road 13 Vineyards Sparkling Chenin Blanc

Wild nettle pesto with house made ricotta prosciutto from our pigs

Oysters from Outlandish Shellfish Guild caviar, chives & lemon segments

Fried pork rillettes with molten quince centres

Road 13 Vineyards Riesling & Road 13 Vineyards Viognier-Roussanne-Marsanne

Poached trout choucroute garni Pernod butter sauce with chervil & tarragon

Road 13 Vineyards Pinot Noir (Fleet Road) & Road 13 Vineyards Syrah-Malbec

Alley spit roasted lamb legs over charcoal rubbed with roasted garlic & cumin red wine sauce

Pearl barley risotto with wild fire morel mushrooms & parmesan

Heirloom beet & shaved fennel carpaccio with cider vinaigrette

Wild Apex watercress with Italian bacon fried hazelnuts & balsamic vinaigrette

Road 13 Vineyards Old Vines Chenin Blanc

Carmelis fresh goat cheese, Upper Bench King Cole Blue, Kootenay Alpine honeycomb, membrillo, dried pear & anise bread

Salted dark chocolate caramels

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

7:00pm

Vancouver Urban Winery

55 Dunlevy Avenue, Vancouver

$100 exclusive of taxes

To reserve your tickets for the dinner, please visit www.joyroad13.eventbrite.ca.

About the Author: Tim Pawsey

Tim has been covering the food and wine revolution for about 20 kilos. Count 15 kg alone thanks to the blossoming cuisine and wine culture of British Columbia, Canada. His awards include: BC Restaurant Assn. Hall of Fame, Okanagan Wine Festivals Harry McWatters Founder's Award, BC Wine Growers Industry Recognition Award, Vancouver International Wine Festival Spirited Industry Professional award. Tim’s hallmark is seeking out and recommending value wines from BC and around the world that offer quality at every level. He also scopes out noteworthy restaurants that live up to their promises—and often over deliver. For several decades Tim wrote columns in the Vancouver Courier and North Shore News. He currently contributes to several magazines, including BCLS Taste, Vitis and others. Tim is a frequent judge for wine competitions and was a founding judge of The BC Lieutenant Governor’s Awards for Excellence in Wine. He is frequently invited to judge at The BC Wine Awards, and others. Tim has traveled to taste in many of the world’s leading wine regions, across Europe, in North America, Argentina and Chile, Australia and New Zealand, and South Africa.