The East Village, along Hastings Street from Clark to Renfrew, is home to a wide variety of food and beverage purveyors. In the few blocks you can taste the world from butchers and bakers, tacos to tapas, with coffee houses and breweries thrown in too. The heart of East Van for over a Century, the East…
Capture Photo Festival Launch & Inaugural Lind Prize
Friday evening the 3rd Annual Capture Photography Festival got underway with an opening exhibition at the Roundhouse Exhibition Hall. The show featured the finalists for the inaugural Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize, presented by Presentation House Gallery. The Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize is a new award, supported by Rogers Communications to recognize Mr Lind’s…
Friday Find: Shishinori Japanese Eatery
Located in a strip of shops along Cambie, the unassuming Shishinori Japanese Eatery is a little gem of a Japanese restaurant. Overwhelmingly cute, bright and pristine there aren’t very many tables in the tiny spot but the ample menu offers a variety of items. A large lunch trade of dine in and take out workers in…
Tasting Plates Marpole – recap
Wednesday night we had the chance to explore a new neighbourhood on Vancouver Foodster’s Tasting Plates Marpole. While Marpole is one of Vancouver’s historic neighbourhoods, it is often overlooked as people drive through enroute to Richmond or downtown Vancouver. The neighbourhood is going through a bit of a renewal and new merchants and eateries are…
Capture Photography Festival – April 1 – 28, 2016
Tomorrow, the 2016 edition of the Capture Photography Festival gets underway. For the third year, the annual not-for-profit festival celebrates local and international artists producing challenging and thought-provoking photographic works. The festival also works to encourage new artist, engage the public with stimulating dialogue. This year, over 75 artists’s exhibitions, tours, talks, public installations and…
Picks of the Week – March 30, 2016
March came in like a Lion and looks like it’s going out like a Lamb, but before March wraps it leaves us with these picks of the week Dine: Explore the flavours of the Marpole neighbourhood tonight on Tasting Plates Marpole Abba: Broadway Across Canada presents Mamma Mia on until Sunday at the Queen Elizabeth…
Van Foodster Rice Bowl Challenge Winner & Re-cap
The Vancouver Foodster Rice Bowl Challenge has wrapped up for 2016 with the Siam in the City Bowl from Ban Chok Dee in Langley declared the People’s Champion. This Vancouver Foodster Challenge was one of the tightest races, the Judges Choice ended up in a 3-way tie with Siam in the City Bowl, Momma’s Style Poke Bowl…