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น้ำปลา: Fish Sauce Decoded
If you’ve ever had Thai food, or made a Vietnamese or Cambodian recipe, you are probably familiar with fish sauce. Its English name is somewhat frank, and doesn’t exactly conjure up a delicious image. But Fish Sauce adds a hallmark flavour to many dishes and ...
New On Tap: Vancouver’s Coal Harbour Brewing Company
Triumph Street, East Vancouver. It’s an unassuming block, an industrial neighbourhood filled with warehouses, jam spaces, big trucks, broken televisions. But, one look inside the garage doors of newly opened Coal Harbour Brewing Company and you know you’re in the midst of a serious operation. ...
The Victoria Tea Festival arrives this weekend.
Victoria tea lovers, heads up: North America’s largest tea show is just around the corner, and it’s right here in our city. The Victoria Tea Festival, held at Crystal Garden February 18-19, invites guests to participate in a fun and informative exhibition celebrating “all things ...
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Locally Made Valentine’s Day Chocolate: Where to Buy
No holiday is as complex as Valentine’s Day, a conflict of faux indifference paired with simultaneous longing. “It’s commercialized,” we’ll say, scoffing at the hearts and the bows, while secretly hoping an admirer will observe the tradition and ‘surprise’ us nonetheless. Love can be professed ...
Q&A with Leslie Sutton of Flying Fish, Nanaimo
If you live on Vancouver Island, you may have heard of it. If you live in Nanaimo, you probably love it. Located in the heart of downtown Nanaimo in a early 1900’s heritage building, Flying Fish is a locally owned and operated shop featuring ...
Oak Bay Bistro Brewmaster’s Dinner: Hoyne Brewing Co.
Another weekend gone by, another food and drink event I wish I could relive. This time, it was the much-anticipated Hoyne Brewmaster’s Dinner at The Oak Bay Bistro. Surrounded by fellow beer lovers, serenaded by a fiddle quintet, immersed in a mid-winter feast; I can’t ...
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Lunch Pick: The BC Legislative Dining Room
It feels very members-only, very classified. A dramatic wooden door stands prominently atop a flight of stone steps outside the Parliament Buildings, flanked by men dressed in navy. As I reach the door, it is opened for me by a security guard, and I’m directed ...
Clive’s ‘Fernet Flip’ Cocktail
Now that the excitement of the holiday season is behind us, we’ve had our Big Two Days of Snow and everyone has misplaced at least one umbrella, the reality of winter in the Pacific Northwest is really starting to set in. We’ve all heard ...
Bacon Love and 5 places to buy it
Call it the fatty Madonna of the cured meat world. Bacon is more popular than ever, its ever-expanding sphere of influence showing no sign of recession, no matter how much we sometimes might wish to forget it. It has found its way into/onto our burgers, ...
