Food and Drink

When customers walk into JJ Bean’s new cafe on North Fraser Way in South Burnaby’s Big Bend neighbourhood, they’re often “shocked” by what they see – or, more specifically, what they don’t see.

In Port Coquitlam, a city that had exactly zero craft breweries less than a year ago, two breweries are open for business today: Northpaw Brewing and Taylight Brewing. And there could be as many as five before the year is out.

World travellers who like to keep their eats plant-based have an increasing number of worthy options for dining out well, and this new list puts a Vancouver restaurant at the very top of the pack.

A union representing service industry employees at Vancouver International Airport is raising concerns about upcoming food service contracts.

Knives have been sharpened, white jackets have been embroidered, and fires are lit: Top Chef Canada returns for a seventh season, and the new class of "cheftestants" have been revealed.

The manager of a diner where Luke Perry filmed the television show "Riverdale" in Mission, B.C., says fans have been trickling in to reminisce about the actor since his death Monday.

Even if coffee isn't your thing, Starbucks hates to leave anyone thirsty, which is why the multinational chain has been focused on expanding their beverage lineup in recent years. Now Canadians can smugly sip a new tea latte exclusive to our market: the Teavana Black Sesame Tea Latte.

A pop-up chocolate dessert lounge at Notch8 Restaurant & Bar at Fairmont Hotel Vancouver is taking afternoon tea to a whole new level.

Thanks to the two-headed hydra of rising taxes and runaway real estate speculation, the very breweries that helped create 'Yeast Van' may be forced out of it.

Toronto-based poutine chain Smoke's Poutinerie has an outrageous new creation, Kool-Aid infused poutine, available for a limited time only this month in Metro Vancouver.