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Vancouver Island

Victoria Tapas – A Review in 4 Parts…Not Unlike Your Meal: Part Two

by Kristy Gardner 05.22.2012

(Images by Choli Designs)
When you think of Oak Bay, images of grandiose houses, flags on street lamps, and little old ladies with walkers come to mind. Unwittingly, you have been fooled. Tucked in between the resident neighbourhood pub on one side and a Tudor sweet shop on the other is Vis a Vis – a [...]

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Victoria Tapas – A Review in 4 Parts… Not Unlike Your Meal

by Kristy Gardner 05.15.2012

Victoria boasts the most restaurants per capita in North America, save for San Francisco. In a culinary sea of eateries, how does one choose where to indulge their next craving? The best bet is to sample as many dishes as possible.
Enter tapas. Despite the English austere of the Capital city, Spanish style dining seems to [...]

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Mid-Island Eating and Drinking: March News

Regional News
Gaetane Palardy’s Island Gourmet Trails 250-650-1956, www.IslandGourmetTrails.ca will be leading a tour of the Shellﬁsh Research Station Tour (Deep Bay www.viu.ca/deepbay) on Monday, March 12. Cost is $5. Contact Gaetane to conﬁrm a spot: info@islandgourmettrails.ca.
Thursday, March 29 the 7th Annual Dining Out For Life! fundraiser with a number of restaurants from across Vancouver Island donating 25 percent of their [...]

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Dine Around Comox Valley Feb 17-Mar 18

by Editor 02.17.2012

The third-annual Dine Around Comox Valley starts February 17th and runs until March 18th.
Locals and travellers to the Comox Valley are invited to visit the 25 restaurants participating in this year’s event, which showcases the fresh produce straight from the farms (450 at last count) and adjacent waters teaming with shellfish. The three-course, prix fixe [...]

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Island Wineries of British Columbia Giveaway!

by Editor 02.17.2011

What do you need to know to enjoy British Columbia’s island wines? You need to know the wineries, what wines they produce, and where the wineries can be found. Did you know there are over twenty-five wineries to explore? A new book created by the contributors to EAT Magazine entitled “Island Wineries of British Columbia” [...]

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CC 2010: Aquaman, Smokies, and Sustainable Campfire Sing-Alongs

by Jacob Galbraith 09.11.2010

One of the perks of being a cook who can also read and write at a fifth grade level is that I’m occasionally called upon to attend events I would never be able to make it to. Last May brought the Vancouver Craft Beer Week, and today I’ll be frolicking amongst approximately five hundred or [...]

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Register Now for Canadian Chefs’ Congress – September 11, 12

by Editor 08.31.2010

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Spring Issue of EAT Magazine

by paulkamon 03.08.2010

The Spring issue of EAT Magazine has just hit the streets! Read the digital edition: click here.

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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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Local Travel: Escape to Tofino Edition

by paulkamon 12.08.2009

Every year around the time when the darkness begins to plunge deepest into our days and the falling rain from woolly grey skies seems inexhaustible and permanent, I always feel this strange almost atmospheric wave of anxiety move in.
When it inexorably does extend its unnerving and lethargic-inducing reach, I instinctively know it’s time to escape [...]

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Blind Tasting Review: 2005 Château Roquetaillade La Grange

by paulkamon 12.01.2009

I have been playing a wine game with restaurant sommeliers and wine nerds across town 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. ~ PK
Come inside and read the review of our [...]

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A Visit to the Comox Valley Pt 2 ~ Eating & Drinking

by paulkamon 09.12.2009

(Read “A Visit to the Comox Valley Pt 1“)
What would it take to get me to pack up my family and travel 5 solid hours by boat and van to a fairly remote town overrun by wealthy Albertans and military personnel? Good food. And beer.

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