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PR Avalanche!

by paulkamon 02.06.2010

Valentine’s Day Dinner at Hermitage; Café Medina opens take-out windown just in time for Olympic lines; Top Table Bars Fête Olympic victors with Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte; Valentine’s Day dinner at Au Petit Chavignol; Valentine’s Day at Bistro Pastis; R.TL open for lunch ‘Pintxos’ style, offers extended hours during the Games; Sweet, Seductive Valentine’s Day at [...]

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PR News ~ Olympic Love Edition

by paulkamon 01.27.2010

Crave Beachside presents Valentine’s Day 2010; Upcoming Bourbon Whiskey dinner at The Refinery; New Olympic hours for Cobre: New Olympic hours for Deacon’s Corner; Wine Out DiVino; Olympic Hours – Provence Marinaside in Yaletown; Fraîche Restaurant introduces bar menu and Valentine’s Day celebration; Opus Hotel Vancouver brims with Olympic spirit.

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The Brewmaster’s Table

by BC Brew 07.20.2009

^R&B Brewer, David Bretherick, and Diva at the Met Executive Sous Chef, Jeff Van Geest, collaborated to celebrate Father’s Day with a special brewmaster’s dinner.
When it comes to fine dining, there is a common fallacy that beer has no seat at the table beyond, perhaps, drinking as an aperitif. This is understandable, given that our [...]

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Plaza 500 to Become Hotel Indigo

by paulkamon 06.02.2009

From the Dept. of “Go Big or Go Bigger”, the Plaza 500 Hotel having just come out of the harrowing construction vortex of the Cambie RAV line is set to go under the knife again, this time for a big-time make-over into a Hotel Indigo, a brand owned an operated by the Intercontinental Hotel Group.
A [...]

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Rooftop Restaurant For Yaletown?

by Paul Kamon 11.09.2008

UPDATE: Sunday, November 9th
The public hearing to determine the fate of the proposed OPUS Vancouver “rooftop restaurant” continues on Tuesday, Nov. 18th at 6 p.m. at City Hall.
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The Opus Hotel has a business meeting with Vancouver City Hall today at 6 pm (Nov 7th) to review their application for a “250 seat, luxury, world-class restaurant…” [...]

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Ready…Set…

by Paul Kamon 10.16.2008

The much anticipated Voya Restaurant and Lounge, the anchor restaurant of the Loden Vancouver, a brand-new luxury boutique hotel by the Los Angeles-based Kor Hotel Group, is going through their final systems checks before they open their doors to the public this Saturday, October 18th.

Led by a trio of well-respected industry professionals, Chef Marc-André Choquette [...]

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Grunberg Heading To Shangri-La’s Market

by Paul Kamon 10.08.2008

Ask most restaurant owners of some experience and they’ll tell you the number of top drawer general managers currently working in Vancouver could probably be calculated on a broken abacus. If they are indeed a select few, Paul Grunberg of Chambar is certainly one of them. A consummate professional, Grunberg is well liked and respected [...]

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Our First Look At Voya

by Paul Kamon 08.21.2008

Took a tour of Voya earlier today with bar manager Jay Jones and executive chef Marc-Andre Choquette. It’s looking great, but there’s still a little while to go.

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