Foodists is a collective of like-minded food worshippers. We breathe and sleep in order to eat and drink. Have something to share with us? We'd love to hear from you. If it's something to eat or drink, even better.
On a cold November night, many of Vancouver’s foodie elite descended to the new Gastown location of The Found & The Freed “pop up” shop for an event called Sweater Season. Accompanying…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Categories: Meditations | Tags: ButterOn The Endive, event, Gastown, interview, Owen Lightly, The Found and The Freed, vancouver | 1 Comment »
“remember, what the dormouse said feed your head, feed your head” —Jefferson Airplane The city seemed to shrink away on the horizon as we wound up through the treed lane, hugging the shoreline of Deer Lake in…
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, November 28th, 2011
Categories: Worship | Tags: alice in wonderland, Chashma Heinze, down the rabbit hole, duck-confit, event, In The House Festival, Myriam Steinberg, robin kort, swallow tail supper club, underground restaurants | 1 Comment »
For years those of us living in Toronto have watched while other cities across North America have celebrated and grown their vibrant street food scene. We’ve traveled sampling noodles, tamales, fish tacos, pulled pork…
Posted by: Alexa Clark on Friday, September 23rd, 2011
Categories: Worship | Tags: event, food trucks, Street Food, Toronto | 1 Comment »
Foodtree and Urbandig are pumped to invite you to uncover unpretentious gourmet food in Vancouver during GROWconf. We’re completely certain that this will be the tastiest Day 3 GROWconf adventure, so grab one of the…
Posted by: Anthony Nicalo on Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Categories: Worship | Tags: chinatown, event, food tour, Gastown, local food, locavore, Railtown | No Comments »
The Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival kicked off last week at the Shore Club where Executive Director Harry Hertscheg welcomed media and gave an introduction to the festival. Seventeen wines were opened,…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
Categories: Worship | Tags: event, festival, fortified, playhouse, port, sherry, tickets, Wine | No Comments »
It’s like finding a 100 dollar bill in your pocket. Oooo, maybe it’s more like the sudden realization that you are in the middle of such a good book you can’t put it down. No, actually it’s exactly…
Posted by: Miles Harrison on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: alcohol, cocktails, event, lounge, vancouver | No Comments »
“This is to confirm your reservation for the media dinner aboard the Floating Dining Room.” On Friday afternoon, with two designers down and minor fires to be put out on all fronts, the above words sat buried…
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: C Restaurant, event, School of Fish Foundation, Seafood, sustainability | No Comments »
With the almost cult following that bacon has, I always figured there had to be similar pockets of food obsession so I was quite tickled to see an invite to an “endive gala” in my inbox a few weeks ago. A…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: endive, event | No Comments »
Forget raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, a few of my favorite things are bourbon, single malt and beer. And by a stroke of hoppy, malty, genius, all three are on offer at Hopscotch, Vancouver’s beer and…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Saturday, December 12th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: alcohol, beer, event, Scotch, spirits, vancouver, whiskey, whisky | 3 Comments »
Far too many people still think of tequila as something to be shot back, followed by the requisite lime, salt and shudder, as evidenced by the raised eyebrows I got when I told people I was going to a tequila tasting. But…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: alcohol, cocktails, Don Julio, event, liquor, Pacific Goldfish Kitchen, spirits, tequila, vancouver, Yaletown | 1 Comment »
Definitions of Crush: 1. To extract or obtain (juice) by pressing or squeezing (grapes). 2. a great crowd. 3. (slang) an object of one’s affection. 4. Cornucopia’s gala tasting event. After a full day of…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: cornucopia, cornucopia09, crush, event, festival, Whistler, Wine, wine tasting | No Comments »
After a decade of die-hard vegetarianism, I`m now at the stage of gourmandism where I will eat almost anything without flinching, but some of the things that I won’t eat surprise people. Offal? Bring it. Horse?…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Friday, November 13th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: canapes, cocktails, endangered, event, fundraiser, shark, trivia, wild rice | 3 Comments »
Grabbing lunch and heading off to find a field or beach to dine en plein air is a timeless tradition, but in the middle of a city? less so, perhaps. And yet, a couple of weeks ago my friends and I sat down in a square in…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Sunday, September 20th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: al fresco, dessert, event, outside, picnic, potluck, spontaneous | 1 Comment »
Spending the long weekend in Kingston, Ontario had an unexpected reward: Fare on the Square An homage to the farmers market and local products, Fare on the Square provided 12 local restaurants with products from vendors…
Posted by: Alexa Clark on Sunday, September 6th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: event, farmers market, kingston, tasting | No Comments »
1. It’s not just about wine. This year there was a CheeseCamp track too. Yes, real, serious, delicious conversations about cheese. 2. You’d have understood that if you forget your wine country map that’s…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: booze, cheese, CheeseCampVan09, event, pairings, VCCC09, VinoCamp, VinoCampVan09, Wine | No Comments »