The sixth annual festival of food & wine, Taste Victoria starts July 24, kicking off 4 days of great local flavours.
The Festival gets underway this Thursday with Taste the Difference, an evening tasting of more than 30 local wines & food prepared by Vancouver Island’s top chefs. Taste is a festival with a conscience, working with producers who are local, sustainable and seasonal. The restaurants follow similar guidelines and the wineries participating in Taste the Difference are asked to pour only BC Grapes. Taste’s goal is to support the local economy and highlight the great local products BC has to offer.
Taste the Difference happens Thursday, July 24 from 6pm to 9pm tickets are onsale for $89 on the Taste website.
If you can’t make it to Taste the Difference there’s still more to come each day of the festival. The rest of the weekend’s line up is:
Friday, July 25th
Sustainable Seafood: Taste and Learn at Finest At Sea
10:30am-12:00pm Finest At Sea, 27 Erie Street
Sharpen Your Senses: An Interactive Tasting Workshop
7:00-9:30pm London Chef, 953 Fort Street (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, July 26th
Best of Our Backyard Wine Seminar
12 noon-2:00pm Hotel Grand Pacific
Swine and The Vine
2:00pm-4:30pm The Pacific Restaurant, Hotel Grand Pacific
Sunday, July 27th
Band, Bubbles and Bennys
11:00am-2:00pm Vista 18 Restaurant Martini & Wine Bar, Chateau Victoria Hotel, 740 Burdett Avenue
Everything is Better With Bacon
6:00pm The Robert Bateman Centre with Steamship Grill & Bar, 470 Belleville Street
Tickets for all events are available on the Taste website where you’ll also find more details about all the events and participants.
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