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
Drink / Events / Food / Food Events Oct 30, 2019 Fifth annual Stein and Dine in the Victoria Public Market It's such a festive and fun way to celebrate craft beer and our ... 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
Food News Oct 1, 2019 Rancho Vignola – Vancouver Island Harvest Sale Rancho Vignola – New Crop Nuts & Dried Fruit is hosting its annual Vancouver Island Harvest Sale on November 29th and 30th at ... 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
Food Events / Food News Sep 18, 2019 EAT Buzz Up-Island & Tofino September|October 2019 The Buzz Up-Island It’s high time for festival season! I anticipate this time of the year all year long when fresh produce is in abundance, ... Read More
Wine Events Sep 16, 2019 Crush – A Fine Wine Affair – Sunday, October 20, 2019 The Belfry Theatre’s ninth annual fine wine auction and tasting event takes place at the Delta Ocean Pointe Resort. This year’s live auction ... 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
Beer & Cider / Beer Dinners / Events / Food Events / Wineries & Breweries Aug 30, 2019 A Categorically Great Meal Saanich Brewery Category 12’s ‘Brewmaster’s Dinner’ Marries Wildcraft With Craft-Beer It was somewhere at the beginning of the ... Read More