Sorry about the delayed announcement friends–my father-in-law’s been very sick–but I wanted to let you know that Ella De Torres of Vancouver won the $75 gift cert draw to Abigail’s Party in Kitsilano last week.
Thanks to all who entered.
I’d be interested to hear more of your Dine Out Vancouver experiences here–any surprises? disappointments? don’t-misses? Please share!
You know that New Year’s resolution–the one about never drinking again? No, John Lee doesn’t know that one either.
The Vancouver-based Lonely Planet author has just released Drinking Vancouver: 100+ Great Bars in the City and Beyond (Touchwood Editions; $19.95). Must have been hell to research.
Lee’s arch writing style is a good match for a book [...]
I saw Daenna Van Mulligen–aka The Wine Diva–in action during a champagne tasting at last month’s Cornucopia in Whistler, BC, and I can tell you that if this woman says you should put it in a glass and drink it, you should definitely pay attention.
‘Tis the season for gift bottles and this should make your [...]
I’m heading up to Whistler, BC for Cornucopia this weekend. There was a (very recent) time when that drive from Vancouver was so long and hair-raising–all those white-knuckle twists and turns–that it was necessary to take a break halfway just to gather your wits.
Now with all the pre-Olympic improvements to Highway 99 you get to Whistler [...]
The world divides into sugar-and-butter people and salt-and-butter people.
Those who, like me, fall into the latter category do not heed the siren call of those bags of little chocolate bars that seem to be everywhere at this time of year.
We are not tempted to tiptoe into our sleeping children’s rooms and steal from their trick-or-treat [...]
FOX’s highly addictive brain-candy series Hell’s Kitchen (featuring chef-tyrant Gordon Ramsay) is winding up its sixth season tonight, and this round’s lucky winner gets a plum gig as head chef at swanky Araxi (under executive chef James Walt) just in time for the 2010 Winter Games.
If you can’t make it to tonight’s viewing party in Whistler, here’s [...]
This week’s news that Disney will launch a seven-day family-friendly Alaska cruise from Vancouver in 2011 reminded me that I’ve been wanting to mention something about another lesser-known BC cruise port: Prince Rupert in Northern BC.
When I was in Rupert a year or so ago on my way to Haida Gwaii for the opening of the [...]
Weird thing about good seafood restaurants in Vancouver: there just aren’t that many. You’d think, living as we do on the ocean’s doorstep, that great seafood would be the rule rather than the exception in local eateries. You’d think.
So it’s a fine day for fish fiends when a resto like Coast decides to make a [...]
In Paris last summer I ate more than my fair share of those delicious brie-stuffed baguettes they sell at every subway stop and corner cafe, and every single time I found myself wondering why something so easy and so delicious couldn’t be part of my lunch-time ritual back home in Vancouver.
Turns out it can.
Finch’s Cafe [...]
If you’re making the day-trip to Bowen Island from Vancouver this summer–and you should–you’ll want to know about the half-price tapas hour at Artisan Eats, a fun new restaurant at Artisan Square, just a short walk up the hill from Snug Cove.
Between 5 and 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, all the delicious small [...]
