Food and Drink

Jon Healy photo The craft beer trains keeps right on rolling. We have 11 new breweries listed in our latest issue of The Growler , and word on the street is there is a whole bunch more on the way.

B.C.’s policy that restricts licensed grocery stores to only be allowed to carry British Columbia Vintners Quality Alliance (BC VQA) wines on shelves will come to an end next year.

One popular bubble tea chain, YiFang, has been a big draw since its debut on Robson, and has quickly grabbed up additional locations, kicking off a pretty epic expansion in the region.

Fall is here, and our warm-weather farmers markets in Metro Vancouver are wrapping up for the season in October. While that means we won't be strolling the aisles in full summer sun for a few months, there are a few farmers' markets in the region that operate during the cooler season.

As the warm-weather weekly markets wind down this month for the year, VFM's two fall-winter markets prep to kick in, but with one key alteration: The Riley Park market is now year-round, absorbing the previous Nat Bailey winter farmers' market.

A list of 10 great new places to cozy up to the bar in Canada covers some great drinking territory from Dartmouth to Edmonton, and includes one Vancouver standout.

The rugged wilds of the Highlands are home to elusive lake monsters, Neolithic ruins of long-vanished ancient civilizations, fairies, castles and some of the finest whiskies on Earth...and a growing craft beer movement.

There's a new ramen joint to tempt our tastebuds opening this weekend in Vancouver, and to celebrate, they will be serving up 300 free bowls of noodles over three delicious days.

How's this for the ultimate winter luxury getaway? This winter you can be whisked away by helicopter to Canada's largest, southernmost ice field for a private high-end dinner served in a secret, hidden ice cave.

Port Coquitlam will get another microbrewery — and it’ll be within walking distance to the city’s first. Last week, the smart growth committee OK’d a lounge for Tin Shed Brewing Inc.’s liquor manufacturing licence.