April 11 2012
Vancouver, BC. Legacy Liquor Store. Bittered Sling Bistro is a bi-weekly food and cocktail pairing competition dedicated to pushing the boundaries of cocktail craft presented at the beautiful Legacy Liquor Store. This event is hosted by Kale & Nori’s award-winning mixologist, Lauren Mote and Chef Jonathan Chovancek. This month’s featured spirit is Okanagan Spirits and the featured bartender is Evelyn Chick from Uva Wine Bar.
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April 13 2012
Vancouver, BC. Swallow Tail Secret Supper Club. Introducing Tiki: A Pop Up Restaurant of Tropical Proportions.  The sound of ice, clinking in your cocktail glass and happily squawking birds that look like Toucan Sam. Exotic trees bloom all around you, perfuming the air and flaunting colors you didn’t even know existed. Somewhere over your shoulder you hear the sizzle of meat hitting a grill. And – wearing shorts for the first time this year – you just pause for a moment to enjoy how nice it is, feeling warm air on bare skin.  Tiki Bar Cocktails by Hailey Pasemko of Barefoot Bistro. 
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April 14  2012
Vancouver, BC. Social Bites Indulge n’ Dance is an after-dinner event that takes place on Saturday, April 14 at the W2 Media Cafe & Performance Centre (Woodward’s Building / Gastown). It features seven up-and-coming pastry makers and their creations, plus one big 80s/90s dance party. Desserts from 8:30-10:30 p.m., dancing after until late. Tickets start at $18. 

 

April 18 2012
Vancouver, BC. Louis Gervais: West Coast Seafood Cooking Class. Living in BC, we are blessed with bountiful waters and fertile fields. A menu including scallop ceviche, stuffed coho salmon and finishing with a decadent chocolate lava cake will teach you techniques to give you more confidence cooking with fresh seafood. This class will teach you about choosing fresh seafood, preparing it for cooking (debone, fillet) & discuss various cooking techniques and styles so you can make the most of our local seafood.
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April 21 2012
Vancouver, BC. Legacy Liquor Store. Join Legacy GM Darryl Lamb as he takes you through the evolving world of Italy’s most misunderstood spirit. Long known for its fiery rustic characteristics, a new generation of distillers is taking Grappa in a whole new direction. New distillation methods, barrel aging, single varietal Grappas, and a host of other techniques which are changing grappa forever.
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April 25 2012
Vancouver, BC. Legacy Liquor Store: The final – Bittered Sling Bistro is a food and cocktail pairing competition dedicated to pushing the boundaries of cocktail craft presented at Legacy Liquor Store. This event is hosted by Kale & Nori’s award-winning mixologist, Lauren Mote and Chef Jonathan Chovancek. This month’s featured spirit is Okanagan Spirits and the featured bartender is David Wolowidnyk of West Restaurant
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April 27 2012
Vancouver, BC. Legacy Liquor Store. Join Nick Feris from Seattle and founder of The Rum Collective as he hosts the second in a series of intimate tastings at the harvest table of Legacy Liquor Store. Nick will walk guests through ten Caribbean rums – blind of course! Can you tell the difference between a Cuban rum and a Dominican?
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May 17 2012
Vancouver, BC. Louis Gervais: Famiglia Italiana Cooking Class Italian cuisine is about preparing simple yet flavourful meals for family & friends using quality ingredients & lots of love. A menu including hand made ravioli, saltimbocca chicken and finishing with an airy chocolate panna cotta highlights the traditional techniques & flavours of the Italian countryside. Join us for a true famiglia style evening where you’ll work in the kitchen together to create incredible food before sitting down to enjoy the meal together!
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May 4-13 2012
Okanagan Valley, BC. The Spring Okanagan Wine Festival.  Whether you come for a day, a weekend or a week, the Spring Okanagan Wine Festival is a great way to meet the season’s new debutante wines and taste what the Okanagan is truly all about. Great wine. Gourmet food. Gracious hospitality. Celebrate Spring, Okanagan style.

June 1-3 2012
Vancouver, BC. EAT! Vancouver Food & Cooking Festival encompasses unique food experiences, opportunities to learn behind-the-scenes culinary magic from professional chefs, dynamic entertainment through celebrity chef cooking demonstrations and culinary competitions, diverse food, beverage and cooking related exhibits; and of course fantastic shopping opportunities.

June 13 2012
North Vancouver, Canada. Louis Gervais: French Bistro Cooking Class. French food is not just about complicated recipes and tiny portions. A menu including salade de betteraves, contre-filet avec sauce aux champignon and finishing with a sinful gateau au chocolate sans farine welcomes you to the rustic French countryside where hearty meals and healthy portions abound. This class will teach you traditional sauce techniques & recipes which can be used as the foundation to many new recipes.
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June 15-16 2012
Comox, BC. The BC Shellfish Festival is the largest shellfish festival on the West Coast. On the third weekend of every June, the town of Comox hosts a two-day event that brings people from near and far to meet farmers, sample a delectable array of food from the sea, learn the tips of pros during our day-long cooking demos and more!

 

July 6-8 2012
Sun Peaks Resort, BC. The Wine & Culture Festival is a fusion of British Columbia’s boutique wineries, local cuisine, arts and crafts and cultural performances. Set amid the renowned Alpine Blossom Season, the Wine & Culture Festival is sure to tempt all of your senses.

 

July 7-15 2012
Okanagan Valley, BC. The Summer Okanagan Wine Festival. With over 30 eclectic events over 10 days, the Summer Okanagan Wine Festival is bringing you the almost excruciatingly gorgeous Summer experience: outdoor wine tastings with more bold flavored wines than you could ever desire; summer wine and cheese beach parties; road bike race tailgate parties in vineyard settings; the visceral sound of Spoken Word poetry matched with equally feisty wines.

 

July 19-22 2012
Victoria, BC. Taste Victoria’s Festival of Food and Wine. Taste uncorks Thursday July 19, 2012 with an evening tasting of more than 100 British Columbia wines and local cuisine prepared by top Vancouver Island chefs.  Not just a wine festival, this culinary tourism experience is an extra long weekend of tastings, seminars and events…a festival with a culinary conscience! Event tickets sell quickly!

 

September 14-16 2012
Abbotsford, BC. EAT! Fraser Valley Food & Cooking Festival. Celebrity chefs, popular local restaurants, wineries, food and beverage manufacturers, cookbook authors, retailers, artisans, and many others from the culinary world will come together for a three day public extravaganza at Tradex. EAT! Fraser Valley encompasses unique food experiences, opportunities to learn behind-the-scenes culinary magic from professional chefs, dynamic entertainment through celebrity chef cooking demonstrations, intense cooking competitions, diverse food, beverage and cooking related exhibits; and of course fantastic shopping opportunities.

 

September 28-October 7 2012
Okanagan Valley, BC. The Fall Okanagan Wine Festival. With over 165 events happening around the valley, join us for a vineyard tour, lunch among the vines or dine on a waterfront patio. Take in a seminar. Learn food and wine pairings from award-winning Okanagan chefs. Whatever you choose, do it early: events sell out weeks (and months) in advance.

 

November 8-11 2012
Whistler, BC. Cornucopia. The annual event features a sumptuous variety of hands-on seminars, fascinating winemaker dinners, gala tasting events and sizzling after-parties. Cornucopia offers something for both the experience gourmet and those seeking to better appreciate the epicurean delights of wine and food.

 

January 16-20 2012
Okanagan Valley, BC. The Winter Okanagan Wine Festival. Set in January at the magnificent alpine setting of Sun Peaks Resort, our annual Winter Okanagan Wine Festival is one of a kind. Start the day with a great run on fresh powder, pop in for a seminar led by a wine master and end up at a winemaker’s dinner – yes, with the winemaker. They like fresh powder, too.

 

February 2013
Vancouver, BC. Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival. This is a rare opportunity to meet owners, winemakers and senior representatives from wineries around the globe. For either the experienced wine lover or the novice, the festival has something to please every palate and pocketbook. It features wine tastings and pairings, gourmet dinners and luncheons, educational seminars and culinary competitions.