Its back, but with a new location. Food Cart Fest your chance to find many of your favorite street vendors all in one location will be every Sunday from June 23 to September 22. From noon to 6pm, you can roam among the carts, knowing that what you dont try this week, you can always return for a following week. The location is adjacent to Cambie Street Bridge and Olympic Village (between West 1st and the Seawall.)
The art of making sake is as ancient as the art of making wine. If youd like to find out more about sake, D Way Beverage is hosting a series of upcoming events. On June 17, from 2:30 to 6:30pm, theres a free food and beverage show at the Continental Seafood Restaurant in Richmond. You can taste more than 25 kinds of sake and four kinds of beer from Japan. For details go to DWayBeverage.com. On June 18, theres a sake tasting night from 7 to 9pm at Legacy Liquor Store. The tickets are $20 and available at LegacyLiquorStore.com. ShuRaku restaurant on Granville is hosting a sake pairing on June 19 starting at 6. Tickets for the six-course dinner are $98 and can be purchased at ShuRaku.net.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Passions, a gala to benefit the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation. Founder Nathan Fong has gathered some of the citys best chefs to help him paint the town red on September 15. Tickets are $300 for the champagne reception and $225 for general admission, with an earlybird price of $200 before August 1; available at DrPeter.org/events/passions/.
Those who appreciate in the sweet art of honeymaking will want to know the buzz about the Main Street Honey Shoppe. An outreach retail store for the Honeybee Centre (a commercial honey farm, learning centre, and country store in Surrey), the stores soft opening at 4125 Main was Monday. You can taste test honey from various sources (blueberry flowers, fireweed plant and buckwheat) was well as buy honey-based products such as candles, soaps and health supplements. If the city says yes, there will also be a honeybee colony observation hive. HoneybeeCentre.com.
If you want to get all domestic and make your own jams this summer, but dont know how to do it, the Kitsilano Choices Store (2615 W. 16th) is offering a Gettin Jammy canning seminar with Natalie Ferrari-Morton of Homesteading Mamas. The cost is $35 and you must pre-register at ChoicesMarket.com or at the store.
LaStella and Le Vieux Pin are going back to their roots this month with two wine pairing dinners. On June 12, Cork & Fin in Gastown is highlighting Le Vieux Pins French influences during a $99 dinner (604-569-2215) while on June 25, La Stella is celebrating La Dolce Vita at Nicli Antica Pizzeria with a $60 dinner (604-669-6985).
On June 3, Vancouver foodies were disheartened when they read the following post: It is with no small amount of sadness that Two Chefs and a Table announces that we will be offering the last service at our Railtown bistro on June 15.
The Two Chefs name and menu will not be lost as we will continue to run Two Chefs Richmond as both a popular café and as the home for our catering business. It will also be the new home of the legendary Two Chefs brunch with the launch of weekend brunch service in July on Richmonds sunny patio and in the dining room.
We will also be expanding the range of products, events and services at Big Lous Butcher Shop with the addition of brunch items to the deli menu in July and the kickoff of special meat-focussed sit-down dinners in the butcher shop in late June.
