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When we moved into our current home there was a little corner store / coffee shop run by Mario and Maria, an older Portugese couple. About six months later they closed so the building could be renovated. No one ever…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: Dias Coffee Shop, egg custartd tart, egg tart, pastry, Portugese pastry, vancouver | 4 Comments »
Ben and I were recently invited to join a few other food bloggers at a media tasting lunch at Irashai Grill on West Pender. But wait a second I thought, there’s an Irashai downtown Vancouver? Since when? Well…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: french, fusion, Irashai Grill, Japanese, restaurant, review, Sauces, sushi, vancouver, West Pender | 4 Comments »
Vancouver’s Chefs Table Society, to which a number of the Foodists belong, announced their new online platform today with this press release: Hi CTS members, The Chefs Table Society went Web 2.0 this morning…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, May 4th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Chefs Table Society, forum, vancouver, website | No Comments »
Where does your food come? More importantly, why should you care? With labels being greenwashed more than ever, it’s hard to wade through the sea of information and figure out what’s true and what’s…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Monday, April 13th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: events, farmstead, provenance, vancouver | No Comments »
This past weekend I went to Market Restaurant at the Shangri-La hotel. This was quite the highly anticipated dinner for me for a couple of reasons. One, I had to wait a whole month to get in at a prime time on a…
Posted by: Lisa Nakamura on Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: 2009, Jean-Georges, lobster, market, review, Shangri-La, soup, vancouver-restaurant | No Comments »
Takumi Japanese restaurant is a great little Japanese restaurant in West Vancouver. It’s in a bit of an isolated area near Thunderbird Marina on Marine Drive. It wasn’t very busy when we went but I think that it…
Posted by: Lisa Nakamura on Sunday, April 5th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: Japanese-food, restaurant, review, sushi, West Vancouver | No Comments »
Sometimes a little change can make things exciting again! Mark and I used to go to one of the many great coffee shops along Commercial Drive in East Vancouver every morning for our daily caffeine fix. But, the…
Posted by: Andrea Busse on Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: coffee, Commercial-Drive, Elysian, French press, Frieling, grinder, vancouver | 7 Comments »
Say hello to Wanda. Wanda was purchased by some of the men of the Foodists collective a few weeks ago. She said her farewell to her time at Sloping Hills Farm this past week and was greeted with much excitement and…
Posted by: Karen Hamilton on Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: bc, butchers, butchery, canada, downtown, events, Foodists, Gastown, knives, manly men, meat, pig, pork, vancouver, wanda | 14 Comments »
Don’t get me wrong, I love fancy food and am willing to pay good money for a classy dining experience. But sometimes I just want good old fashioned diner-style fry up. Enter Deacon’s Corner in Gastown,…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: biscuits, Breakfast, deacon's corner, diner, old fashioned, restaurant, review, sausage, vancouver | 3 Comments »
You already know that Foodists eat and sleep in order to eat and drink. But what about celebrating? We also love to celebrate – and we’re all insanely happy to be wishing Tiny Bites a happy first birthday.…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: birthday, Tiny Bites, vancouver | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, March 13th, the iconic heritage landmark on West Hastings Street served their loyal customers for the last time, leaving the downtown east side without its great retro lunch counter. Owner Al DesLauriers, who…
Posted by: Johnathon Vaughn on Saturday, March 14th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: butcher, vancouver | 3 Comments »
/caption] Wow, did Anthony just say that in front of 200 marketing professionals? Yup, seems so. This is how the BCAMA wine & cheese event began recently—an evening promising lessons about how great wine makes…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: anthony nicalo, BCAMA, canada, cheese, event, farmstead, marketing, vancouver, Wine | 2 Comments »
/caption] So far, it’s taboo in Vancouver. But, you can do it in Seattle, Portland, and New York. And even in Victoria, Burnaby and New Westminster. Get your minds out of the gutter. I’m talking about…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Monday, March 9th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: chicken, farmers, vancouver | 3 Comments »
I can tell you with certainty that one dinner at the Alibi Room in 1998 turned me into a Foodist. What’s your story?
Posted by: Karen Hamilton on Monday, March 9th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: alibi room, Karen Hamilton, Nostalgia, Railtown, Tiny Bites, vancouver | 5 Comments »
/caption] A little while ago my wife and I were at a friend’s house for lunch. One of our discoveries as new parents socializing with other new parents is the dinner-at-lunch. Guess we can call it lunner. For the…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Canadian cheese, cheese, cheese Vancouver, mount pleasant cheese | 3 Comments »