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August 2009

VinoCamp & CheeseCamp 2009

by paulkamon 08.13.2009

This past Saturday afternoon gave a large room full of wine and cheese nerds an excellent excuse to gather.  VinoCamp & CheeseCamp 2009 , a new kind of social media conference “designed for people interested in technology, wine and cheese” was, by all accounts I was exposed to, a huge success. I did hear someone [...]

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Gordon In Financial Trouble

by Keith Talent 08.12.2009

My semi-obsessive fixation with all things Ramsay (except for his incredibly stupid TV offerings, which actively destroy brain cells,) manifests itself this week with a front page story from the Wall Street Journal documenting his current financial difficulties.
As well-heeled diners went into hibernation, four of Mr. Ramsay’s high-profile restaurants — in Los Angeles, New York, [...]

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Blind Tasting Review: 08 La Stella Vivace Pinot Grigio

by paulkamon 08.11.2009

I have been playing a wine game with restaurant sommeliers and wine nerds across town where I show up with a mystery bottle and ask them to review it blind.  By not knowing what the wine is or who represents it, hopefully, an honest-no-bs-review is achieved. ~ PK
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Whistler Brewing Cocktail Challenge

by Rick Green 08.10.2009

Canada’s first beer cocktail competition will be held at The Refinery on August 17, featuring beer from Whistler Brewing. Come see what our local bartenders have concocted as successors to the Black Velvet, Irish Car Bomb, and Ogre Juice.

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Summer PR Drop

by paulkamon 08.10.2009

Clos Du Soleil wine dinner at DB Bistro; A historic reunion of two of the UK’s leading chefs at West Restaurant; Salt Tasting Room’s “Salt Cellar Series” shines the spotlight on BC!; Whiskey Wednesday at Elixr; Hart House at Deer Lake salutes the flavours of Provence and wines of France; JoieFarm wins two 2009 Lieutenant [...]

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Burger Porn

by Keith Talent 08.08.2009

Yes it’s plain ol’ marketing. Yes it’s from the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. But don’t let that dissuade you, it’s a pretty good site and the burgers look so good that they’ll make you forget about regular porn for awhile. Plus the site has an excellent interface, flipping through the recipes is fun, or at [...]

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Desperately Seeking the Sazerac Pt. 2

by Ryan Cheverie 08.08.2009

My main reason for heading to New Orleans was to reload for another year; I am struggling to keep up in the mixology arms race that Vancouver has become. Attending Tales of the Cocktail is like downloading a decade’s worth of dedicated and discerning ‘study’ of cocktails and spirits onto you brain in just a [...]

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Barbecue With The Masters – A Visit to Deerholme Farm

by paulkamon 08.07.2009

One of the most enjoyable meals I’ve had this summer was a communal Farm to Table dinner at Deerholme Farm in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, hosted by local food trailblazers Bill Jones and Don Genova, both learned protégés of The Urban Peasant, the late great James Barber.
Entitled “Barbecue with the Masters”, this informal [...]

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A Horrifying Admission

by Keith Talent 08.05.2009

I was recently in the interior (at the fantastic new golf course Talking Rock, which hasn’t garnered nearly enough buzz for how good a track it is.) It was about a million degrees outside, and we had a cooler of refreshments with us. Someone asked who needs a beer and my hand shot into the [...]

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Chambar Is Looking For A Hostess

by paulkamon 08.05.2009

Job details inside…

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Desperately Seeking the Sazerac – Pt 1

by Ryan Cheverie 08.04.2009

Ask ten of Vancouver’s better bartenders to name their favourite cocktail and you’ll likely get ten different answers, but ask them each to list their top five and I’d bet that only one will appear in all ten; the Sazerac.

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Lukewarmity – A Vancouver Disease

by Keith Talent 08.03.2009

I went for dinner last week to a popular French bistro. Our mains arrived and my wife leaned in close, “this has been microwaved.” I tasted mine and thought it too had spent the last thirty seconds of it’s kitchen life inside a stainless steel box being bombarded by radio waves. Weird. This was a [...]

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