VCBW 2013

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News from a Broad – Lunching in the Capital

by Shelora Sheldan 03.21.2013

Spring has sprung and with it, a spate of new and unique dining options in BC’s capital. Focusing on the lunch hour, Victoria’s culinary landscape is rife with great daytime options. The downtown core is a prime example. Weekdays the streets buzz with small independents competing for your hard-earned lunch money. Places like Devour, Clay [...]

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King Crab – They’re Here!!

by Canucklehead 03.03.2013

People have been emailing me for a few weeks now. “When are Chinese restaurants starting their King Crab specials?” “Isn’t it time for King Crabs?” “I want my King Crab – where are they?” It used to be like clockwork, one go around with King Crabs in the late fall, then another just after Chinese [...]

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Kingsway in Transition

by Fernando Medrano 02.27.2013

Kingsway has long been one of my favourite eating destinations. It certainly has the best Vietnamese food in Vancouver, and some of the best regional Chinese food outside the suburbs. But I worry—the area is changing and I am concerned about the future of these food destinations. Gentrification has reached this diagonal slash of a road. [...]

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Pidgin – Minding the Gap

by Canucklehead 02.13.2013

Lots of restaurants get pre-opening buzz. I remember when Chambar was still putting the final touches on its interiors, eGullet BC was a riot of anticipation and excitement. When Hawksworth finally opened, the city breathed a collective sigh of relief that one of the big guns of local dining was finally returning to the kitchen [...]

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Ten Top Tastes: Hired Belly’s Best $38 Dine Out Vancouver Menus

by Tim Pawsey 01.21.2013

I’ve been doing a little soul searching on my decision to exclude restos who omit to show BC VQA wine pairings on their DoV website menu listings. But in the end I’ve decided it’s perfectly appropriate not to highlight them, regardless as to how good the plates look. (Our selection criteria are here…) Dine Out actually costs cold cash and labour to stage, [...]

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12 Newbies in 2012 That Made Vancouver’s Dining Scene Even Better

by Tim Pawsey 12.26.2012

One of the hazards of writing “Best of” / “Year End” lists is that you’re guaranteed to miss one (or more)—even more likely if you’ve been waging a kleenex demolition derby against the lurgy sweeping through Vancouver these days. That said, here’s a greatly expanded version of our best dining newcomers column that ran in the Courier, along with a couple of extra inclusions [...]

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Road Trip – Young Victoria

by Canucklehead 11.25.2012

A few weeks ago I was seriously burnt out from my day job (do you know hard it is to get the caramel into a Caramilk bar?!) and I really needed a break. I decided to head over to Victoria to get some quiet time. Plus I LOVE the ferry rides. While those who regularly [...]

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A (Not Too Hard to Take) Evening of the Balvenie Single Malts at Yew

by Tim Pawsey 11.23.2012

I’ll be the first to admit it: I’m no single malt expert. But I do have an appreciation for them, thanks to a relatively early introduction to Scotch whisky as a young (almost legal) adult. Before leaving London I worked for my late uncle at his St. James fine art gallery and appraisal business. Our [...]

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Great Value Bites and a Smart New Wine at Edible Canada

by Tim Pawsey 11.16.2012

A few weeks ago we dropped by Edible Canada at the Market (1596 Johnston St. 604-682-6681) for a post theatre, late night bite. (Somehow a trip to Chile in between derailed our good intentions to post about it sooner.) It’s also been a while since we wrote at length about Edible Canada but there have been [...]

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La Pentola – A Neighbourhood Goes to Pot

by Canucklehead 10.30.2012

(picture via Flickr Commons) When Yaletown first started coalescing together as a neighbourhood in the 90′s, there was such a sense of civic excitement. Visions of Soho danced in everyone’s head – cool and urban, sophisticated yet gritty. Beautiful brick buildings being turned into soaring spaces. We would all have our own warehouse loft spaces! [...]

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España – Moreish Cuisine

by Canucklehead 10.17.2012

I remember as a really young kid – besides Chinese food – my family did not dine out too much. My father was the classic Cranky Chinese Dad who found western restaurants baffling and expensive. It was not uncommon to hear him say after a meal at Mother Tucker’s – “Do you know how many [...]

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Weekend Cook – Fancy Pants

by Canucklehead 09.17.2012

You often hear that people who love food have a not so secret desire to be a professional chef. Well I don’t. I know enough about the crazy hours, the gruelling hands on work, and the precarioius finances of restaurants to know that I will never, ever, ever set foot into a professional kitchen. That being [...]

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