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Blind Tasting Review: 2007 NK’Mip Qwam Qwmt Meritage

by paulkamon 09.09.2011

I have been playing a wine game with restaurant sommeliers and wine nerds across town and beyond 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.
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“Pizzeria Farina” Hits the Ground Running on Main Street

by paulkamon 09.08.2011

Italian-inspired pizzerias are popping up all over the city (Nicli Antica in Gastown, Novo in Kits, and Verace in Crosstown) with a couple more promising ones still yet to come to East Van (Barbarella on Broadway, Via Tevere on Victoria), and I wouldn’t want it any other way. Of all the comfort foods direly [...]

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Coffee Story: Ethiopia

by Editor 09.07.2011

If there ever was such a thing as the perfect coffee table book, this would be it. I have ONE FREE COPY ($65 value) of Coffee Story: Ethiopia to giveaway. Come inside for details…

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“Revolver Coffee” Opens on Cambie Street in Gastown

by Mette-Marie Hansen 09.02.2011

Perhaps no one in the Giannakos family thought they would end up with a state-of-the-art coffee shop in downtown Vancouver when they opened Cafe Crema in West Vancouver back in December 2006. But this weekend, Revolver Coffee is set to open on 325 Cambie Street in Gastown after many months of [...]

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Summer Love and Tequila Cocktails at Market

by BC Brew 08.27.2011

As part of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association’s August Summer Love promotion, MARKET by Jean-Georges has been featuring a weekly cocktail tasting every Thursday at 9:00pm. For $25, guests received an appetizer and five tasting-size cocktails created by lead bartender, Jay Jones.
I learned that for MARKET’s last Summer Love Cocktail Tasting, Jones was showcasing [...]

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Why Not Wet Grind?

by Colter Jones 08.25.2011

A video was recently posted of David Walsh talking about the possibility of wet grinding coffee to prevent some of the limiting factors that modern grinders present us with. David is one of the minds at Marco that helped to create the Über Grinder and the Über Boiler, which are two devices in an elite [...]

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Moon Cakes. Really?

by Canucklehead 08.22.2011

(photo via Flickr by miss karen)
The timing of Chinese Mid Autumn festival has always felt odd to me. Especially when I lived in Hong Kong, suffering through mid-30’s heat with 110% humidity – the cooling promise of “Mid-Autumn” seemed more like a cruel taunt, than an actual celebration.
Adding credence to the idea that the [...]

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Verace Joins the Rush to Offer “Authentic” Neapolitan Pizza in Vancouver

by Jacob Galbraith 08.11.2011

For a long time, eating pizza in Vancouver has meant either dial a pie or buck a slice, neither bearing much resemblance to the storied original pizzas from Naples, Italy. The bacon double cheeseburger pizza, paired with a zesty ranch dipping sauce, unofficially signified the beginning of the end of the “2 for 1 build-your-own” [...]

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Coffee at Auction

by Colter Jones 08.09.2011

The Cup of Excellence is a program that has been developed to promote specialty coffee in a very transparent and unbiased manner. Respected judges are invited from all over the planet to grade coffees that are submitted into the program. After the coffees are graded the farm and varietals are revealed and put up for [...]

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Beerlesque Ticket Giveaway!

by Editor 08.07.2011

I have 2 FREE tickets ($100 value) to giveaway for BEERLESQUE – “An Adult Carnival for the Senses” on Friday, August 19th from 7 pm til midnight. Come inside for details…

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The Beers of Summer

by Jacob Galbraith 07.29.2011

It was hot out a few days ago, and then, suddenly, it wasn’t. Those days were enough to remind me that it is indeed the middle of the year, and that typically we can rely on a good stretch of sweat, sunburn, and self medication with delicious beers. I’m choosing to behave according to the [...]

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The Rebirth of Uncool

by Canucklehead 07.25.2011

(Photo by Flckr SqueakyMarmot under create commons license)
It’s a great story, a satisfying tale that adds to the mythology one of our great city icons. Young Dynamic Entrepreneur (in the form of Mark Brand) Saves Downtown Eastside Institution Save On Meats! Wrecking ball averted! Greedy developers thwarted! Hurrah!!
And without any irony, this [...]

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