Minami Restaurant was the place to be for cocktail lovers on October 25 as it hosted the first-ever Shake Up Yaletown cocktail competition, a special event featuring exclusive cocktail creations made exclusively for the annual Taste of Yaletown dining event. From 5-8pm, six bartenders …
The Fish Shack opens on Granville Street, Vancouver
Update: The Fish Shack closed permanently in March 2018 after five and a half years of operation. I wrote these first impressions after their media launch in October 2012. Vancouver’s Glowbal Group opened their latest restaurant on Wednesday evening to …
Tasting Plates Vancouver, Kitsilano – two girls attempt 10 restaurants in 3 hours
Last week on Wednesday my colleague Dana and I joined dozens of other food enthusiasts in Kitsilano for the second-ever Tasting Plates Vancouver, a culinary event put on by food blogger Richard Wolak, better known online as Vancouver Foodster. For …
The Brave Bull’s House of Steak Closing
Vancouver is about to lose an institution. According to a message posted on the B.C. Chowhound forum today, The Brave Bull’s House of Steak is closing for good on September 2nd: Never been, but for those interested, the couple that run Brave Bull are retiring and …
Crow Corridor
This was the scene on Tuesday evening during the first major summer thunderstorm since July of 2009. Every evening before sunset, the crows in Vancouver fly eastward toward their roost in Burnaby. They always take the same route. They fly …