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Competitions

Layton Wins Whistler Beer Cocktail Challenge

by BC Brew 09.01.2009

Give 15 bartenders a mixed case of beer each and what do you get? Some amazing creativity. As a judge in Canada’s first beer cocktail competition, sponsored by Whistler Brewing Company and hosted at The Refinery, I was privileged to be able to sample each entry—a challenge not only to decide the best one but [...]

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Chefs To The Field at Terra Nova

by paulkamon 08.17.2009

If all the food and wine from The Dirty Apron Cooking School open house and VinoCamp CheeseCamp 09 wasn’t enough this weekend, I needed to eat more. Jeesh. However, on Sunday morning I headed to the Chefs To The Field event at Terra Nova Schoolyard Society in Richmond.

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Whistler Brewing Cocktail Challenge

by BC Brew 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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Identity Crisis: Name That Wine Region

by paulkamon 03.13.2009

(Photo by: Laura)
The winery group, formerly known as the “South Okanagan Winery Association” is looking for a new name. Apparently the “SOWA” title was not inclusive enough for all the wineries involved in the region. So, back to the boardroom they went and after a few meetings they came up with “OODWCA” (Oliver, Osoyoos Desert [...]

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Cocktail Competition: ‘The Next Classic’

by paulkamon 03.11.2009

(Photo by: Michael Schratter)

This past Monday, Miss Lauren Mote, the talented bar manager of Chow, mixed an elegant array of cocktails using old school techniques and fresh ingredients to help her win Grand Marnier’s regional cocktail competition dubbed “The Next Classic“. She will join three other Canadian mixologists from Montreal and Toronto for the International [...]

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Cobre Throws Down The Gauntlet!

by paulkamon 12.05.2008

Cobre’s Challenge to Gastown Restaurants:
On Wednesday, December 17th, Cobre will donate 100 percent of its net food revenues to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank. Cobre has challenged all of the other Gastown restaurants to join in to support the Food Bank by holding their own fundraisers anytime before Christmas.
Participating Restaurants:
Two Chefs and a Table – [...]

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2008 BC Gold Medal Plates Review

by admin 11.09.2008

(photo by: Michael Schratter)

Last Wednesday night, some of British Columbia’s elite chefs, wineries, athletes, diners and industry professionals, gathered at the crowded Westin Bayshore Hotel in Coal Harbour for one of the most prestigious culinary competitions in Canada, The Gold Medal Plates.

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Gold Medal Plates 2008

by admin 11.04.2008

Tomorrow the Western Canadian leg of the 2008 Gold Medal Plates Olympic fund-raising competition begins here in Vancouver @ the Westin Bayshore, followed by Edmonton on November 6th and Calgary on November 20.
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One Hundred Dollars And A Ticket To Napa

by admin 10.22.2008

Will get you to an event of epic proportions…

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Debauchery On Main

by admin 09.22.2008

- DB Bistro Moderne droppin’ science
Bit of a wild night last night. I judged the Sagatiba Cachaca “Battle of the Bars” competition over at The Cascade Room, drinking a significantly debilitating brace of cocktails from some of the best bar crews in town (Chambar, George, Bluewater, West, Granville Room, The Cascade, Lolita’s, Me & Julio, [...]

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Update From The GMP

by admin 09.16.2008

A snippet from a recent memo dished by the bosses at Gold Medal Plates:
This year’s Gold Medal Plates Competition will be featured in a seven part documentary series produced by Lively Media, a Toronto-based television production company for decades with a reputation and history of producing excellent factual programs. The series will be showcasing the [...]

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How Awesome Was Chefs To The Field?

by admin 08.11.2008

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Part Two

Yesterday was so very awesome. I was overwhelmed by the size of the crowd that turned up at Terra Nova Rural Park in Richmond, as well as the dishes turned out by the competing chefs. The results were extremely close, with the 1st and 2nd spots separated by a mere four points. Thanks [...]

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