Contest Alert: #WhyIWorkHere

#WhyIWorkHere is a tribute to the people that make your job easier. #WhyIWorkHere is about the people who keep you sane in the middle of a rush. #WhyIWorkHere is about your teammates who are more than co-workers. They’re family. #WhyIWorkHere makes getting off at 3am not that bad. When industry workers are in financial need, the BCHF has the … Read more

Rocky Mountain Flatbread Food Court

Rocky Mountain Flatbread Food Court Wants to Change the World of Unhealthy Fast Food, Opens at Park Royal Mall Shopping CentreToday   Rocky Mountain Flatbread Food Court wants to change the world of unhealthy fast food. This new food court restaurant at Park Royal Shopping Center offers healthy and affordable pizzas, salads and soups made with fresh, … Read more

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

Wine Recommendation – Soupe aux Moules

Wine Recommendation – #TasteofThursday Soupe aux Moules de Mamie Suzanne When I was asked to provide a wine recommendation for this recipe, my mouth watered and the first thing I wanted to do was to go out and buy the ingredients to make it. Fortunately, it was too late to shop and so first things … 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

Campbell Valley Wine Tour Part 2

Township 7 Campbell Valley Wine Tour: As we got off the bus, the jovial Jason Ocenas, manager of the Langley facility, greeted us. Township 7 is one of two BC wineries to operate out of two locations. Church and State has a winery in the Okanagan as well as one on Vancouver Island near Buchart … Read more