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Category: Eating

  • Timber Gastropub; Eating in the City

    On the weekend I happened to be downtown Vancouver and seized upon the opportunity to visit one of the restaurants that I follow on Instagram – Timber Gastropub. From Timber’s website – Timber is Chef Chris Whittaker’s second West End Restaurant. Timber pays tribute to British Columbia’s rich timber history and the tough people who…

  • Chopstick Fest at New Starlet Restaurant

    From October 15th to the 30th, 2016 over thirty restaurants around Metro Vancouver will be featuring their unique dishes to customers during Chopstick Fest, the Chinese restaurant version of Dine Out Vancouver. The festival allows participants to look beyond well-known favourites like Dim sum and Kung Pao Chicken; the organizers have made it their mission…

  • Siegel’s Bagels and Lucky’s Doughnuts

    Near the end of the summer we went to see a matinee performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor at Bard on the Beach. Luckily we arrived for the show earlier than necessary so we wandered back up to Siegel’s Bagels on the corner of Cornwall and Cypress to grab a bite of lunch. Although…

  • Eating in the Fraser Valley

    My blog has been giving me a headache lately – I cannot properly access with my iPhone or iPad so it has definitely slowed down my ability to write posts. However, here I am today writing about my recent eating in the Fraser Valley adventure. On my recent trip up the Fraser Canyon I visited…

  • BC Farmers Appreciation Week

    Just in case you didn’t know, the week of September 12th – 18th is BC Farmers Appreciation Week. In acknowledgement of B.C. Farmers Appreciation Week, Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick said, “British Columbia farmers are hard working people supporting their families and our communities by growing the foods that we enjoy every day. I ask all British…

  • Mussels and Frites at Salade de Fruits

    Curious thing, one of my young daughters really enjoys mussels. When we go to Granville Island she insists we stop at The Lobster Man on the way out to pick up a bag of mussels to bring home and cook. One hot sunny day this summer just gone, I thought rather than bringing the mussels…

  • Lunch at New West’s Rivermarket

    Last week I was in New Westminster so I took the opportunity to stop at the Rivermarket (formerly the New West Quay) for lunch. To begin I had the Free Bird Chicken Shack Banh Mi – a Vietnamese sub sandwich. An awesome combination of pickled veggies, fresh cilantro, and that succulent roast chicken all inside…

  • Langley’s Hilltop Diner

    This summer I am making a point of exploring some of the classic eateries in Metro Vancouver. First was the Ovaltine Cafe, and now I can say that I have also visited another classic, the Hilltop Diner in Langley. Hilltop Diner I can also say that although it felt like I was on a very…

  • Lunch at Memphis Blues Barbecue

    The barbecue scene in Vancouver has certainly improved over the last few years; there is the Hogshack out in Steveston, Dixies on Hastings Street, Peckinpah in Gastown, and of course a number of locations of Memphis Blues Barbecue House. Last week when we were hankering for some barbecue, we decided to visit the Richards Street…

  • The Ovaltine Cafe

    There is good stuff happening in the Ovaltine Cafe down near Hastings and Main. Grace, formerly an employee of the original Save on Meats cafe from back when Al Deslauriers was the owner, has taken over the Ovaltine Cafe and is working hard at improving the menu and the quality of the food. Visiting the…