Local bitters company Bittered Sling has partnered with Tales of the Cocktail create a special cocktail travel pack of four custom bitters inspired by the popular festival’s tour stops. Gastown, Palermo, Condesa and the French Quarter are all represented. Find it at Legacy Liquor Store and Uva Wine & Cocktail Bar for $49.95.
After a couple of months of brown paper-covered windows, Prado Café has opened their third location at 4208 Fraser, just up the road from Earnest Ice Cream, Graze, and Sweet Salt. Expect the same awesome coffee and an expanded line-up of baked goods and lunch items.
Julia Diakow, formerly of Reflections at The Rosewood Hotel Georgia, The New Oxford and Cuchillo, is now bar manager at Tacofino’s flagship Gastown location, Taco Bar. Diakow has introduced a new cocktail list, as well as a trio of tequila and mezcal spirit flights.
Later this month, Mealshare will share their 500,000th meal with someone in need. To mark the halfway point on their Road to 1 Million campaign, Mealshare has partnered with eight Canadian celebrities to fight hunger. You can help with the click of a button by sending out a pre-composed tweet, joining a celebrity team, or dining at one of the 43 local Vancouver restaurants that have partnered with Mealshare. Participating restaurants include Nicli Antica Pizzeria, Sai Woo, Bauhaus, Pidgin, Burdock & Co., Wildebeest, Maenam, and many more.
Daniel Burke, former GM at Bao Bei Brasserie, has moved on to the GM role at La Pentola at The Opus Hotel.
Advent-acious holiday…Forget the milk chocolates and toys, this advent calendar is the one you need to kickstart the holiday season – and your liver. New District, BC’s only online wine marketplace, is offering a special “calendar” made up of 25 full-sized bottles of top BC wines. Priced at $850 (shipping included), it includes wines from La Stella, Unsworth, Le Vieux Pin, Rustic Roots, Covert Farms, Kanazawa, Nichol Vineyard, and Stag’s Hollow, among others.
Ancora is running a Caviar Festival now through Nov. 28. Try multiple varieties of caviar ranging from herring and tuna caviar to BC’s own Northern Divine caviar in various à la carte dishes.
Royal Dinette has released the menu for their second Ugly Duckling Dinner on Nov. 24, which calls attention to food waste awareness and sustainability issues by serving underutilized – and often discarded – ingredients, off-cuts, stalks, leaves and rinds. The five-course menu includes smoked salmon skin with tartare, scallop skirt dashi with black cod, kale stem risotto, beef tongue with squash trim hollandaise, and mushroom custard with sunchoke trim ice cream. Tickets $79 per person for reception, dinner, and beverage pairings.
On Nov. 25, L’Abattoir will feature the wines of Pio Cesare in a special five-course dinner. Dishes include herring escabeche, foie gras tarte, and lamb loin with chestnut stuffing. Tickets $195 plus taxes and gratuity.
On Nov. 26, Latab Wine Bar partners with Slow Food Vancouver for the second installment of the Slow Food Restaurant Series. Tickets (on Eventbrite) are $96 ($85 for Slow Food members) and include a six-course dinner with a welcome cocktail, two non-alcoholic drink pairings, and three wine pairings, as well as the opportunity to get up close and personal with the people that bring West Coast foraged food to Vancouver.
Torafuku has launched their new winter menu and hours. The restaurant is now open seven days a week, and is serving up new dishes like the “bang bang” sweet and sour pork ribs, eggplant stew, and smoked sweet peppers with toasted almonds alongside continuing favourites like the “Rye So Messy” chicken wings, Kickass Rice and fried mochi.
