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Fall Events Pictorial

by paulkamon 11.16.2010

Check out some photos from a few of the events Urban Diner has attended this month.

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Dine Around Richmond 2 – “Demystifying Food Street”

by paulkamon 08.30.2010

The second installment of Tourism Richmond’s Dine Around series (there will be 12 in all) was a walking tour along Alexandra Road or “Food Street”, which is an aptly fitting description when you consider the dizzying labyrinth of mini strip-malls along this three block stretch of pavement contains over 200 + Asian restaurants.

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Dine Around Richmond – Northern Chinese Cuisine

by paulkamon 08.06.2010

Last week, Tourism Richmond invited some local food media on a rather lavish exploration of some of the city’s eclectic Northern Chinese restaurants as part of their monthly Dine Around Richmond campaign. Riding high on a wave of enthusiastic local and international press as well as the second successful showing in the Chinese Restaurant Awards, [...]

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Visa Infinite Dinner at Blue Water Cafe + Raw Bar

by paulkamon 06.04.2010

On Wednesday June 2nd, Visa Infinite held their 3rd exclusive cardholders dinner in Vancouver; this time Blue Water Cafe + Raw Bar in Yaletown played host in their gorgeous aqua-themed wine room.
Executive Chef, Frank Pabst (Vancouver Magazine’s Chef of the Year), and Raw Bar Chef, Yoshihiro Tabo rolled out an impressive four-course meal that was [...]

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Visa Infinite Dinner at Lumière

by paulkamon 03.18.2010

Last Monday, Lumière played gracious host to the lastest Visa Infinite dinner in their elegant Kitsilano dining room. This exclusive event for cardholders (and lucky media types) had Chef Dale MacKay preparing an exquisite multi-course menu that took inspiration from the mothership cookbook Chef Daniel Boulud.

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2010 Olympic Postcards ~ Icehole’s Golden Ownapodium Week!

by paulkamon 03.02.2010

The city was awash in nationalism as long repressed flag waving urges exploded and poured onto the streets of Vancouver like some giant billion dollar champagne beer bottle spraying out thousands of rabid superfans yesterday; the symbolic final battle (a.k.a. Greatest NHL script ever imagined) against our fellow continental bully brothers in a dramatic game [...]

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2010 Olympics Postcards ~ Week 1

by paulkamon 02.22.2010

Come inside and take a look at some images taken during the first weeks of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

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On the Beer Trail: Saltspring Island Ales Pt 1

by paulkamon 02.20.2010

It started out innocently enough with a single bottle of beer; a nice drinking session with an alluring and tall vessel of Saltspring Island Ale’s dark porter. Not long after that, it was the last drops of their award-winning golden and pale ales that I had also brought home as well, that further prodded me [...]

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Chef Gagnon Makes his Mark at The Teahouse

by Katherine van der Gracht 01.18.2010

I have a confession to make: the last time I stepped foot in The Teahouse in Stanley Park was for their Easter Sunday brunch in 1987. Clad in the matching doily dresses and patent leather shoes my mother made my sister and I famous for as children, we sat quietly and ever-so patiently in the [...]

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Cooking with Dale and Stephane

by paulkamon 11.13.2009

(All photos courtesy of Tracey Kusiewicz of Foodie Photography)
Long ago, I worked as a dishwasher for a couple of years in a very busy restaurant and was on the verge of being “promoted” out of the kitchen to go bus the floors with the better smelling front of house crowd, when some strange sense of [...]

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Incendio in Gastown Re-Opens

by paulkamon 11.09.2009

After a devastating kitchen fire back in January of this year, Incendio in Gastown has successfully navigated the insurance labyrinth and risen from the ashes looking better than ever.

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Wild Boar at Voya

by paulkamon 11.06.2009

Chef Choquette and the Voya kitchen team have recently taken delivery of a “wild boar” from an Alberta farm and butchered it into a diversity of cuts and charcuterie for a special limited-time offering. Come inside and check out the menu.

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