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Several dishes stood out from our tasting, a multi regional showcase for Tutto Chef Omar Hadi’s offerings. Topping the list, porcini brown butter further enlivens an already flavourful beef short-rib ravioli.
Sustainable seafood trailblazer and pioneering chef Robert Clark has been named a Member to the Order of Canada. (C.M.). The honour comes in recognition of his leadership in helping to found and develop Ocean Wise.
I’m truly saddened to learn that Burnaby’s long-running The PearTree is closing. Since its opening in 1998, the restaurant has been a beacon of regional cuisine. In fact, in the late 1990s, it was one of the first ‘fine dining’ rooms to establish away from downtown Vancouver. (One of the originals was Bruno Marti’s Le [...]
Tourism Vancouver and community partners (including BC Hospitality Foundation) have announced ‘Dine Outside, Vancouver style’. It’s the first summer-time Dine Out festival—and it might well stick around for a while. You may recall that the original Dine Out was launched to thwart the January Doldrums—that time of year when restaurants were beleaguered by the post-holiday slump; [...]
Provence Marinaside joins the list of re-openings in Vancouver, which have been coming thick and fast this week. That’s really good news. How reassuring to see all those familiar names returning to whatever the new normal might be. Of course, many never completely shut down but switched to takeout almost without [...]
In a Vancouver still ruled by straight-jacket liquor laws they came also for late night tea pots—filled with beer. The code name was cold tea. And all you had to do was ask.
Updated May 25th, 2020: From Bodega on Main... "We are so excited to get back to serving you a taste of Spain in our dining room! As of Friday, May 22nd, we will resume dine-in service. "As we adjust to the “new normal”, our team has been working hard to make the necessary changes for [...]
Updated July 31st, 2020 (Press release) Earlier this year, John Bishop announced that he was closing Bishop’s on August 1 after 35 years as one of Vancouver’s most popular restaurants. But COVID-19 has changed all that and Bishop’s will now remain open until the end of the year. “Just before COVID arrived, we announced that [...]
Hy's has announced a take-out service (in both Vancouver and Whistler), offering almost all of its menu items at 20% off, along with several 'prepped' stalwarts that you can finish at home.
