Events / Food & Wine Pairing / Food Events / Places / Victoria Feb 25, 2020 Pacific Northwest Wine Dinner: Canoe Brewpub & Unsworth Vineyards Multi-award winning Unsworth Vineyards and Canoe’s Chef Kyle Dampsy joined forces on Wednesday, February 19, in Canoe’s upstairs Dining ... Read More
Appetizer / Main course / Recipes Dec 30, 2019 Spinach and Herb Pesto Spinach and Herb Pesto Makes about 1 cup. 1½ cups finely chopped spinach 1½ cups chopped parsley 2 Tbsp lemon juice, about half a lemon 1 jalapeño ... Read More
Appetizer / Main course / Recipes Dec 30, 2019 One Perogy Two Perogy Perogies with Potato and Wild Mushroom, or Two Cheese Filling This is my recipe for perogies with a fluffy, mashed-potato-infused dough—one ... Read More
Drink / Press Release / Spirits Nov 19, 2019 Sheringham Announces New Sister Company Lumette! and Bright Light Alt-Gin Lumette! Bright Light Alt-Gin, created by the “World’s Best Contemporary Gin” Master Distiller Lumette! Bright Light Alt-Gin is Canada’s ... Read More
Press Release / Wine News Nov 19, 2019 Beaufort Announces New Vermouth After almost 12 months of research and recipe development, we are excited to introduce our first ever vermouth at Beaufort. Vermouth, a fortified, ... Read More
Food News / Places / Restaurants / Restaurants / Victoria Nov 14, 2019 A NEW ERA FOR AURA When I sit down with executive chef Takashi Ito, it’s almost a year to the day since Aura restaurant closed for renovations. Though he’s looking ... Read More
Events Oct 30, 2019 Eat the Future Victoria’s food community came together this week at Boom + Batten restaurant for Eat the Future, a tasty event to raise money for future chefs ... Read More
Books / Recipes / Review Oct 20, 2019 Cedar + Salt, Vancouver Island Recipes from Forest, Farm, Field and Sea It often surprises me how easy it can be to take for granted, or even forget, just how incredible this island is. Sometimes it is a visitor who helps ... Read More
Books / Cocktails / Press Release Sep 22, 2019 An Expedition to the Land of Great Northern Cocktails Shawn Soole’s latest book swings open the doors to the world of Canadian cocktails CHIPPENHAM, UK, 20 September 2019—Hidden in the vast northern ... Read More
Appetizer / Recipes Sep 3, 2019 Sophie Fenlon’s Cervelle de Canut A lyonnaise cheese dip, literally translating to “silk worker’s brain” named after the “canuts” the silk workers of 19th century Lyon. ... Read More
Causes / Chefs / Events / Victoria Aug 30, 2019 Mary Ploegsma—The Tattoo Series I It was an unforgettable afternoon. Mary Ploegsma served us David’s Tea’s vanilla chai with sweet local strawberries and chocolate biscuits. The ... Read More
Causes / Chefs / Events / Food Heroes / Sustainability Aug 30, 2019 An Evening with Chef Ned Bell and Ocean Wise On August 20, 2019, Ocean Wise and Eagle Wing Whale and Wildlife Watching Tours teamed up to present the first in a series of speaker events in ... Read More
