Masaladobo Cantina & Take Away has opened at 433 Granville St. The new venture from Kunal Ghose (Fishhook and Red Fish Blue Fish, both in Victoria) and Matt Thompson (Elwood’s, Five Point, Cannibal Café) offers Indian favourites served up with Mexican twists. Masaladobo.com
Gotham Steakhouse has introduced a new late-night Happy Hour menu, available on Thursday and Friday evenings from 10pm to midnight. Drinks include $8 cocktails, $7 local wines, and $5 highballs and local beers. Food items include the famous cheese toast for $5, fresh oysters for $1.75 each, and prime beef sliders for $4.50. GothamSteakhouse.com
Chez Christophe is ready for Easter with a new line-up of chocolate art, including farmyard classics and five new bunny figurines, including a royal guard, a chef, a carrot, a hockey player, and a lumberjack. Figurines range from $24.95 to $32.95 each. Christophe-Chocolat.com
Big news from the Okanagan. Chef Rob Butters of RauDZ in Kelowna has announced that the restaurant will be taking over operation of Terrafina at Hester Creek Estate Winery. Current chef Jenna Pillon will be staying on, and the menu and room will be going through a refresh, with opening scheduled for April. TerrafinaRestaurant.com
Burdock & Co. will host a ramen and noodle pop-up with sister restaurant Harvest Community Foods on March 22-24 and 29-31. From 12-2pm each day, Harvest will dish up its hearty ramen and noodle bowls to Burdock’s customers. BurdockAndCo.com
On Tuesday, Mar. 28, Wildebeest partners with Brasserie Dunham for a special brewmaster’s dinner. The five-course menu includes chicken liver parfait with foie gras, boudin noir, pheasant roulade, grilled flat iron steak, and dessert. Tickets $75 per person. Wildebeest.ca
On Thursday, Mar. 30, the 23rd annual Dining Out for Life takes place at dozens of restaurants from Whistler to White Rock, and across the Lower Mainland. This annual fundraiser in support of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS sees restaurants donating 25 per cent of food sales for the day to local charity A Loving Spoonful. See the full list of restaurants at DiningOutForLife.ca.
On Wednesday, Apr. 26, Campagnolo Roma will present the next edition of its Quinto Quarto supper series, celebrating the whole animal. The six-course menu includes Humboldt tentacle yakitori, lamb tongue on spent mash crackers, chicken skin crackers, pig foot brodo with cotechino ravioli, whole roasted pig’s heads, goat-milk rice pudding, and beef tendon marshmallow with pork blood torte. Tickets $80 per person, including beer pairings from Driftwood Brewing. Call 604-569-0456 or email [email protected].
On Saturday, May 13, the 11th annual Spot Prawn Festival returns to False Creek Fisherman’s Wharf. In addition to being able to purchase a bag of fresh-off-the-boat prawns, each $17.50 ticket includes a time slot for you to receive the annual spot prawn meal and drink samples from R&B Brewing and Evolve Cellars. Tickets available through Eventbrite. ChefsTableSociety.com
Dish ’n Dazzle, an annual fundraiser for the BC Hospitality Foundation, returns to the Vancouver Convention Centre on Thursday, May 18. The popular food, wine and cocktail event includes wines from Chile, unique dishes from 14 top local chefs and restaurants, and cocktails from six of the city’s top bartenders, as well as a silent auction and a grand prize raffle. $89 per person. DishNDazzle.com
