It’s time for the second annual Filipino Restaurant Month and I had a chance to taste some of these Filipino foods at this tasty media launch of Canada’s Filipino Restaurant Month which is a joint project of the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa, the Philippine Consulates General (PCG) in Calgary, Toronto, and @phinvancouver Vancouver , and the Philippine Department of Tourism (PDOT) – will be taking place in April 1-30, 2023. Shameless BunsPampanga’s CuisinePlato FilpinoMax’s Restaurant The participating restaurants include Pampanga’s Cuisine, Max’s Restaurant, Grandt Kitchen, Liberte Café and Re ..read more

I recently spent some time in one of my favourite American cities, New York City exploring some of their cafes for delicious baked goods and coffees. Ole and Steen is a Danish bakery cafe chain from Denmark and I loved their Savoury swirl with spinach, cheese and seeds; Cinnamon Social – sweet pastry with cinnamon, vanilla custard and icing; Vanilla Spandauer – flakey pastry with vanilla custard and their coffee, had a Cortado. Culture Espresso had delicious cookies as well. I had a cortado at this cafe located around the corner from my hotel that was close to Bryant Park. Michaeli Bakery w ..read more

It’s all about Westcoast cuisine and inventive cocktails and zero-proof drinks inside a room inspired by nature and the area around UBC. A celebration of West Coast culture and cuisine, Wildlight Kitchen + Bar opened in February 2023 and is the first restaurant for B.C.-based Pattison Food Group. The approachable, premium-casual concept highlights ethically sourced, seasonal ingredients in modern all-day dishes by homegrown culinary talent, Chef Warren Chow. His menu is matched by select regional wines and handcrafted cocktails, all served in a warmly welcoming and stylish dining space. Fren ..read more

Such a fun idea for Spring where Owner/Chef Jean-Francis Quaglia is featuring the Quelle Surprise from now through to April 15,  $49 for two courses. Each morning Chef Jean-Francis, and his Chef Team, will make a limited number of dishes from a rotating assortment of bistro favourites.  Some days they will make a dozen orders of a particular Appy and Main and other days, depending on the availability of ingredients and what inspires them, they might make two dozen, or only ten. I had a chance to taste several of the dishes at a media dinner, the portion size was smaller so that we ..read more

Specializing in house-made tamales and other Mexican eats and drinks, this wonderful eatery recently opened in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood. Serving freshly made savoury and sweet tamales, tacos, tortas, and other Mexican specialties. Their business was born during the pandemic where they started out making tamale in a commissary, fast track to now and they are selling their house-made tamales to grocery stores, through farmers markets, in their cafe and soon widely available wholesale to other restaurants and stores. The cafe also features a live mariachi band playing every Saturday and ..read more

Welcome to the 3rd Vancouver Foodster Croissant Challenge. Bakeries and cafes from all over the city were invited to enter their Croissant creations into this challenge. Each bakery and cafe will be featuring their croissant creations on their menu from March 8 – April 2, 2023. How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the croissant creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best croissant creation for the People’s Choice award winners.  Share your experiences: Social media share your ph ..read more

Experienced Miami Culinary Tours food and art deco tour in the South Beach area of Miami recently which took me to places I haven’t been to before. Our guide Mirka talked about how she had lived in the area for over 50 years and she knew the history of the changing area. She was informative and noted various facts along the way along with historical notes. It was a multi-cultural tour in some way as we tasted and sipped Colombian, Cuban, Mexican and Italian food and drink around the area, We visited Bolivar Restaurant and Bar that specializes in Colombian cuisine and tasted a delicious Cevic ..read more

I recently spent a week test driving the Honda HR-V 2023 car around Vancouver while visiting some new restaurants, bakeries and cafes around Metro Vancouver. One restaurant that I had been wanting to visit for quite sometime is one that is located in Aldergrove, picked up my friend Jason and drove out to India’s Most Wanted for dinner on a Tuesday night. The restaurant specializes in Indian Street Food and has a vast menu of snacks and other dishes! We loved the Fully loaded Gol Gappe as our appetizer. The Classy Pistachio Lamb Curry was phenomenal with the aromatic curry made of pistachio ..read more

I recently spent a week test driving the Honda Passport 2023 car around Vancouver while visiting some new and not so new restaurants around Metro Vancouver. Spent in afternoon in Burnaby and had dinner at Yugo Roll and Bowl inside The Amazing Brentwood for some delicious Japanese food, I had the Miso Salmon rice bowl with seasonal veggies and it was very good. The next day I headed to Kitsilano to one of my favourite Mexican restaurants, Mi Casa Mexicana (on the 2nd floor at the corner of 4th and Burrard). I had the Quesabirria Tacos that I dipped in the delicious consommé beef broth, the d ..read more

I recently took part in the art of Neapolitan pizza making with master chef Giuseppe Cortinovis based on the official style of AVPN (Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana). The newly launched Pizza Lab is located in Port Coquitlam at Jan K. Overweel and is offering classes to the public featuring many different styles of pizza. Each class is 3 hours and you will learn the entire process of the specific style of pizza. Chef Giuseppe taught us how to make the dough from scratch, shaping the pizza, adding the toppings and baking in the oven. After the baking process was finished we got to ..read more