Some friends and I tried out the newly opened Sunset Burgers in downtown Vancouver this week. The decor has a very Patrick Nagel inspired look, brightly painted with neon lighting accents, giving the restaurants a cool 80’s retro feel. Sunset Burgers offers a good size menu of Kobe Beef burgers with Chicken, Veggie Burger and…
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Blast Energy Drink
Recently I found this great lemonade stand while at a couple of downtown Vancouver street festivals. At first glace it looked like any other lemonade stand but on second look the equipment and product were different that your run of the mill street vendor. The industrial stainless steel prep area made it seem cleaner than…
Blue Ribbon Classics at Renaissance Hotel Vancouver
For nearly 20 years, chefs & brothers Eric & Bruce Bromberg have been New York City culinary icons with their Blue Ribbon Restaurant. Having grown to 11 properties throughout the city they recently added a 12th to the Blue Ribbon family by joining with Renaissance Hotels to introduce their Blue Ribbon Classics menu into select hotels throughout the chain. One of the…
SOMA Chocolatemaker – Toronto
“A place to eat, drink and worship chocolate” is how SOMA Chocolatemakers describe themselves. One of the few artisan chocolate makers in North American, Toronto’s SOMA make their chocolates in small batches using mostly organic, Fairtrade cocoa beans from around the world. In the SOMA chocolate lab, they use an 80 year old melangeur from…
Top 10 memories of Vancouver Outgames/Pride Week
So many great and fun activities and events happened over the last week of July with the North American Outgames and Vancouver Pride week combined it’s hard to choose a favourite so here’s my Top 10! 10. Seeing the Outgames Flag relay take off for Whistler on Helijet, bonus having my good friend as one…
BC Cultural Crawl – August 1-31
This summer why not vacation close to home and celebrate the arts & culture scene in your own back yard. British Columbia communities are full of great local arts & culture, events, performance, displays and celebrations are happening every day across the province. “The BC Cultural Crawl is a celebration of the arts and culture…
What’s on this Weekend! July 28 – August 1, 2011
What’s on this weekend? What’s NOT on this weekend!? There’s so much happening, I can’t keep up! Happening all week long is the Vancouver 2011 North American Outgames ; sports, culture and human rights conference all rolled into one event. Visit the Outgames website for all the activities happening around Vancouver, Whistler, Burnaby and beyond….