Fun fact: cold drinks are awesome. Yet, the ability to insert caffeine into a bottle might not be as easy as you think. Iced tea has been common for millennia, and soda gets a pass by using caffeine created primarily in a pharmaceutical lab in China. (According to...
It’s winter, you need something to warm from the inside. Steamworks Brewing's Blitzen Belgian Tripel Winter Ale won the top prize at the 2014 BC Beer Awards for "Strong Beer," so you can imagine it’s up to the challenge. The label on has a steam punk, steam-driven...
Though it’s true that art is in the eye of the beholder, there’s no denying that The Listel Hotel is one of Vancouver’s artiest properties, from any point of view. From the sculptural pieces awaiting your arrival outside the Robson Street entrance, to the...
It’s a new year and we’re all still emerging from the holiday fog, so let’s keep it simple. Meat & Bread. Doesn’t get much more simple than that. And when it comes right down to it, there are few things more satisfying, more gratifying, more budget-soothing and...
Seems fitting for my last Drifters of 2014, I feature one of my very favorite BC hotels. (Attention ast minute gift certificate or holiday getaway planners!) The property absolutely nails it, every time. Full on, Four Seasons luxury plus attention to fine detail,...
The holidays are upon us now, which for most means spending more time cozied up with the family. Whether your love them or hate them, enjoying their company can be greatly improved with a classy winter cocktail. Head barman Nelson Navasero from Vancouver’s PiDGiN...
There are restaurants that are so treasured, so right, so comfortable and so revered that they deserve the daily line-out-the-door status prior to opening. Vancouver’s breakfast/brunch/lunch only Café Medina is one such restaurant. You can well imagine, then,...
According to Vancouver's Bomber Brewing, their Choqlette Porter is a love letter from a male beer lover to his doting wife. By fusing one of her favorite things (chocolate) with one of his favorite things (beer), Bomber puts the romance and art of brewing into a...
There’s no shortage of fantastic things to do across the Northwest, but I love the ones that are augmented by a cup of local coffee in hand. Some of my favorite combinations involve things you’d normally forget to do otherwise—botanical gardens, sculpture parks and...
"A family of spirits that entice and intrigue.” Such is what Vancouver’s Odd Society Spirits is on a mission to make. The young craft distillery’s new Crème de Cassis hits the mark, marrying a secret recipe from the personal chef to the late Belgian King Leopold...
