There are roads, there are streets and then there are boulevards. That’s the progression and quality inherent in Vancouver’s new swish seafood restaurant, Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar. Located in the iconic Sutton Place Hotel, the extensively and expensively...
If you're in Portland, you’ve forgotten your wallet, you are really hungry and you just have a few bucks on you, head to Trifecta Tavern & Bakery. Sit at the bar, talk with the friendly barkeep and order the bread with fresh churned butter. It’s only $3 (well,...
North of Kelowna, British Columbia, you’ll come across the town of Vernon and home to one of the newest kids on the cider scene, The BX Press. A third generation farming family, Dave and Melissa (and their three young daughters) opened The BX Press earlier this...
Some things are best left unexplained. Like how top tier culinary industry professionals with wide ranging and divergent histories and backgrounds find themselves on a beach in a rainforest on the farthest side of Canada’s est coast. Meet, probably over surf, or...
If you’ve traveled anywhere throughout Spain, you’ll feel a distinct and comforting déjà-vu when you slip into the Gastown neighborhood’s cozy (and aptly-named) Sardine Can. Though the narrow, understated slice of a room might be an anomaly in our...
I like British Columbian Cabernet Franc. But I really, really like BC Cab Franc when winemakers don’t try and trick it up with heavy oak and extraction, but rather just let it be its brambly, characterful, juicy, savory self. The Similkameen Valley’s family owned...
You know when you’re traveling for business, maybe for a conference, and you check into a nameless, faceless, bland and boring business hotel and dine on bland and boring banquet food and have nothing to do on breaks? This is the complete opposite. The Hyatt...
To call the Okanagan Valley’s Summerland Heritage Cider Co. a small scale cidery would be an overstatement. Nano-cidery, possibly. They currently produce just one cider, Tuesday’s Original, from their estate-grown cider apples, though more releases are in the works...
If you haven’t heard of Culmina, you’re forgiven. Culmina Family Estate Winery is fairly new to the BC wine scene. However, the Triggs family behind the family estate winery part is a legend in our industry. If you know anything of Canadian wine, wherever you may...
When you find something pretty fantastic it’s tempting to keep it to yourself. I mean if the whole world knew about how fantastic, stylish and hip Vancouver’s The Loden, then I’d never be able to book in. This boutique downtown Vancouver hotel is tucked into Coal...
