Crush+ Auction  Crush+  is an online silent auction open from November 13 to 19 to raise funds for the Belfry Theatre’s 2023-24 season of plays and programs for artists. You can find fine wine collector items, whisky, spirits, restaurant gift certificates, trips to Vancouver and Kelowna, excellent holiday gift ideas (even for the hard-to-buy-for-person!), and much more! Here is just one gem that is on offer in the wine section, as featured below by wine writer Robert Moyes, but there are many affordable options in the auction for all price points: Ever-opulent Château Mouton Rothsch ..read more

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For the ninth year in a row, Rancho Vignola is setting up its Vancouver Island Harvest Sale here at the Mary Winspear Center in Sidney. Many of you now have become familiar with the best of the new crop nuts, dried fruit, seeds, and confection that this Okanagan-based company brings in every year, and will be pleased to see it return.   Trying to describe the experience of coming to the Rancho Vignola Harvest Sale to someone who has not been before is hard to do. What is hard to describe is the magnitude of the operation. We bring thousands of pounds of product in from our warehouse in ..read more

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“While you are celebrating our shared history on Canada Day and all this country and province have to offer this summer, please remember Canada’s Indigenous populations, who have lived on this land for thousands of years before 1867 and the creation of this country.”  It seems fitting to welcome summer and all the celebrations it brings, with these words from our much-missed founder and editor, the late Gary Hynes. Two new releases from Touchwood Editions will help foragers make the most of nature’s bounty in our region. The Coastal Forager’s Cookbook: Feasting Wild in the Pacific Northw ..read more

Andrea Mackenzie’s creative take on traditional strawberry shortcake. Rhubarb, for many of us, has a remarkably nostalgic flavour. It conjures up warm childhood memories, feeding our souls with recollections of a delicious moment of rhubarb indulgence, perhaps in the form of a rhubarb pie or crumble straight out of the oven.  Versatile in zest and texture, rhubarb can go from super lip-puckering sour with a crisp crunch, to soft, sweet, and tangy when simmered down to a nearly creamy state.  Its combined sweet and savoury elements add zing to a variety of course options, i ..read more

Vancouver Island’s best food & drink festival of the summer returns on September 24th, featuring over 50 of Victoria and Vancouver Island’s best chefs and beverage makers. Fire-cooked Meats, Cold Drinks, and Good Friends – the perfect ingredients for a memorable day with your favorite people. Let’s set the scene: it’s a warm September afternoon, and you’re hanging out with some of your best pals, enjoying the tastiest food and drinks from around the city. Top that off with some feel-good live music, and you have the perfect way to spend a Sunday. Welcome to Brewery & The Beast, the on ..read more

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I’m used to meeting the chef when I dine out — in the best places, the chef often comes to the table to chat with guests or even arrives to deliver the plates and describe the provenance of local ingredients. But I’m not used to having the chef at the table, or literally on the table, for the entire meal. That’s what you get with the new Le Petit Chef experiences at Victoria’s Marriott Inner Harbour, with the diminutive cartoon cook cavorting around the place settings as he “prepares” each course before your eyes in an engaging 3D illusion. Of course, it’s all a technological sleight-of-hand ..read more