Shop The Neighbourhood

Shop The Neighbourhood Offers Small Business Shopping Alternatives for Holiday Season Purchases   Bridging the digital gap in neighbourhood shopping experience between stores and shoppers Back for a third year, Shop The Neighbourhood encourages support for small businesses by promoting local shopping and offering free online and mobile app advertising to participating stores and services. Strategically … Read more

Vancouver’s Eastside Culture Crawl

Vancouver’s Hotly Anticipated Eastside Culture Crawl Returns to Highlight our City’s Prodigious Artistic Talent Beloved celebration of visual art and creativity provides singular experience of artistic discovery   The 19th annual Eastside Culture Crawl – Vancouver’s treasured four-day fete in celebration of visual arts, design, and crafts – runs November 19 to 22, 2015 in studios, … Read more

Vancouver Foodster Craft Beer Cocktail Challenge Award Winners

Vancouver Foodster Craft Beer Cocktail Challenge Award Winners   The  Vancouver Foodster Craft Beer Cocktail Challenge was a success featuring 4 creations from restaurants around Vancouver and Richmond. Each restaurant featured their Craft Beer Cocktail creation from October 1-25, 2015. Our media judging panel determined the ultimate winners of the challenge, and this was quite the task as each … Read more

Abbotsford Harvest Dinner

    On October 15th, Tourism Abbotsford hosted their annual Harvest Dinner. Bringing together local farmers and media friends, the event was meant to showcase the bounty of food, wine and beer that Abbotsford produces. This year’s dinner was held at Mt Lehman Winery. With it’s sweeping views of the vineyard and beautifully decorated table … Read more

Chef Paul Moran #TasteofThursday recipe

CURED SPRING SALMON SALAD     Serves six people as an appetizer Ingredients: 600g fillet of spring salmon, skin on 6 small fingerling potatoes ½ a red onion 500 ml vegetable oil 50 ml apple cider vinegar 100 g Kosher salt 75 g brown sugar 1 bunch watercress 3 baby candy cane beets 50 ml … Read more

Three New Bubbles to Keep Summerhill Sparkling

Progressive Organic BC Winery Adds to Premium Cuvée Lineup   Summerhill Pyramid Winery has just introduced three new sparkling wines in time for the holiday season, proving there is no other sparkling wine producer in Canada with such a strong focus on bubbly. Summerhill Pyramid Winery, a progressive BC winery, has added three new sparkling … Read more

Pelican Bay Fall Wine Tasting

The Pelican Bay Fall Wine Tasting returns to Dockside November 17th   Coal Harbour Liquor Store welcomes 20 wineries pouring 100 wines   Coal Harbour Liquor Store is pleased to announce the return of its popular Pelican Bay Fall Wine Tasting at Dockside Restaurant in the Granville Island Hotel. On November 17th, nearly 20 wineries and … Read more

DESSERTS ARE ABOUT TO GET “SWEETER”

DESSERTS ARE ABOUT TO GET “SWEETER” AT KIRKLAND’S HEATHMAN HOTEL Trellis Restaurant’s New Pastry Chef Jacquelynn Beckman Will Start Whipping Up Her Confections on November 2nd. Executive Chef Brian Scheehser has appointed a new pastry guru to head up the Heathman Hotel and Trellis Restaurant’s confection collection. On November 2, 2015, Jacquelynn Beckman will walk … Read more

OPUS Hotel #2 in top 10

@OPUS Hotel recognized with Condé Nast Traveler’s 2015 Readers’ Choice Award “#2 in Top 10 Hotels in Vancouver”    Yaletown’s award-winning boutique hotel honoured in prestigious list Condé Nast Traveler announced the results of its 28th annual Readers’ Choice Awards with OPUS Hotel recognized as the #2 Top 10 Hotels in Vancouver, with a score of … Read more

FlyOver Canada: Halloween Edition

We sent our writer and photographer Tracy Tsui to experience FlyOver Canada – the Halloween Edition. Looks like she had a spooktacular time! Fun for the whole family. Canada Place is a tourist must see but with FlyOver Canada taking over the old IMAX theatre, everyone young and old should see this wonder kid attraction. … Read more