Things to do in Vancouver: 2012 Ocean Wise Chowder Chowdown
On November 21, to celebrate the culmination of Ocean Wise Month, Vancouver Aquarium transformed into a colourful culinary battleground. 12 top Ocean Wise chefs from Vancouver competed to be named the 2012 Ocean Wise Chowder Chowdown Champion. Vancouver Food Tour joined 550 attendees at this immensely popular, sold-out event to indulge in the 12 original chowders. To top things off, each chowder was paired with a craft beer. (You know how much we adore craft beers!) With wooden spoons in...
Read MoreThings to do in Vancouver: Quail’s Gate Winery Ocean Wise Dinner
Kelowna is a beautifully sleep town that lies in the Okanagan Valley, the heart of British Columbia’s wine country. Quails’ Gate is one of Kelowna’s favourite family operated wineries and they’re soon hosting an exciting event for food lovers. By partnering with the Ocean Wise Program, they will be pairing their wines with 100% sustainable seafood, prepared by star chefs. If you’re a fan of seafood and wine (and ocean preservation), don’t miss out on this...
Read MoreWhere to eat in Vancouver: Gourmet, Sustainable Seafood on SS Floating Dining Room
This article was originally posted on Granville Magazine on August 11, 2010. A memorable meal on the School of Fish Foundation’s Floating Dining Room puts a lens on dire state of our oceans while offering a once-in-a-lifetime dining experience. Seafood will become extinct within your lifetime. How does that statement make you feel? That idea made my stomach turn several years ago when marine biologists predicted that continual overfishing will result in the “collapse of all world...
Read MoreThings to do in Vancouver: I’ll be Dining on WHAT? Floating bottles?
School of Fish Foundation’s Floating Dining Room launched into False Creek on Tuesday, Aug 20th. You read right, a FLOATING dining room! It’s the world’s first, constructed on top of 1700 plastic bottles that have been rescued from the ocean. On deck, they’ll be serving BC’s finest sustainable seafood. Naturally. I simply cannot wait. Stay tuned for the report. In the mean time, check out this amazing video by the people behind this admirable project. About...
Read MoreThings to do in Vancouver: Celebrating Sustainable Seafood – Spot Prawn Festival
The Fourth Annual Spot Prawn Festival (May 8th, 2010) was a huge success. This popular and delicious event was hosted by Chefs Table Society the balmy Saturday afternoon. There was a tremendous turnout at the False Creek Wharf in Granville Island and the weather was simply perfect. Attendees enjoyed platefuls of this local, sustainable seafood and chatted with some of our city’s best chefs. Those patient enough to line up brought home bags filled with jumping prawns that were...
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