Farm & Market / How to Cook Oct 2, 2014 Resurrecting a Kitchen Garden for Winter Delights It’s been a while since I had any proper dirt. I’ve been living in the deep city and growing everything on my windowsills in small pots. For a ... Read More
Cocktails / Drink People / Victoria Oct 1, 2014 The Art of the Cocktail Comes to Victoria This Weekend Tickets are on sale for Canada’s Premier Cocktail Event! From October 4‐6, Art of the Cocktail returns for its sixth spirited season to celebrate ... Read More
Restaurants / Victoria Oct 1, 2014 First Look: Saison Market and Garden “To the market, to the market, to the market go!” That seems to be the general mood at the Cowichan Valley’s Saison Market Vineyard — ... Read More
Restaurants / Victoria Sep 30, 2014 Victoria’s Steamship Terminal Bar & Grill Noted for it its iconic columns and temple-like design, the former Royal London Wax Museum was once home of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) ... Read More
First Look / Restaurants / Victoria Sep 30, 2014 Halifax Style Donair with a Homegrown Victoria Flair Following up on Sol’s article on donair places here in Victoria, I went to visit GP’s Donair and Pizza to see what the lowdown was. I was ... Read More
Coffee & Tea / Victoria Sep 26, 2014 Victoria’s Tea Culture Goes Bubble-shaped Tea is one of Victoria’s most fundamental drinks. Its legacy extends from herb and pine teas brewed by the First Nations, to the colonial English ... Read More
Interesting Locals Sep 25, 2014 Interview with XTerra Triathlete Melanie McQuaid She is a 3 time XTerra World Champion, ITU Cross Triathlon World Champion (2011) and four time winner of the Ironman 70.3 series with 10-plus podiums ... Read More
How to Cook Sep 25, 2014 Cooking with James Beard winner Suzanne Goin in the A.O.C. Cookbook There’s an incredible weight to The A.O.C Cookbook. It’s a hardcover after all, but each recipe requires foraging, farmers’ market bartering, ... Read More
First Look / Victoria Sep 24, 2014 First Look: Il Covo Trattoria On the corner of Superior and St. Lawrence stands a sturdy, squat brick building with gray trim. Originally commissioned as the Connaught Seaman’s ... Read More
Food Pairings Sep 24, 2014 What to DRINK With That : Modern UK Gastropub Fare DRINK editor Treve Ring asks local wine experts how they would approach pairing dishes and flavours. Heading into fall, we’re thinking comfort ... Read More
Kitchen Tools / Recipes Sep 23, 2014 A Winter Classic, Adam’s Potato Leek Soup The secret to many of the hearty warming soups eaten in the winter is the three part process of making the soup, blending it, and returning it to the ... Read More
Events / Victoria Sep 18, 2014 How to Survive the Great Canadian Beer Festival Brews. Bands. Costumes. Food trucks. Small, yet intensely valuable $1.50 plastic coins. A satyric bacchanal of craft beer under the hot sunshine of a ... Read More
