Vancouver dining

First Tastes at Yaletown’s Good-Wolfe Kitchen & Bar with Wines of Roussillon

October 22, 2013
They had me at the Steelhead pastrami ...

    Newly landed Good-Wolfe (1043 Mainland St., Vancouver, 604-428-1043) has been on my radar for some time but I just hadn’t managed to get there until a couple of weeks ago. It’s not that I deliberately dodge new opening shenanigans. But the reality is that while you may will get to gossip lots, they […]

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No Shortage of #SkillsnSpills at Crazy BC Hospitality Foundation Fundraiser

October 21, 2013
#SkillsnSpills_IMG_4772

It was a fun time yesterday at the first annual Skills ‘n Spills fundraiser for the BC Hospitality Foundation. A ton of Vancouver restaurant and hotel teams competed for the coveted Skills ‘n Spills trophy, vying for top honours in events such as the Crack Off, Water Pong (Beer Pong), Baker’s Balance, Master of the […]

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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
Sharon Hanna, Joe Lederer photo

Queen of Kale: Sharon Hanna The Hired Belly has been busy eating his greens—specifically Kale. Part of the reason for this tasty, new, healthy infatuation (aside from the fact it’s so easy to grow) is thanks to The Book of Kale, a truly handy an all encompassing tome by Sharon Hanna—arguably BC’s reigning Queen of […]

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1789 Restaurant & Lounge Now Open

August 18, 2013
Sometimes the address is the smartest way to go ...

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
Grain brings a breath of fresh air

 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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