The first ever Victoria Hot Chocolate Festival is brewing up winter’s favourite beverages from January 20 to February 20, 2024. Participating cafés, eateries, and bakeries all around Victoria are ready to serve unique artisan flavours. One dollar from every hot chocolate sold will go to the BC SPCA Victoria Community Animal Center. Some of the…
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Drink Up The Flavours Of The 14th Annual Greater Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival
Because “Chocolate Makes You Happy”, the 14th annual Greater Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival returns to warm us on the cold winter days, January 13 to February 14, 2024. Since 2011, the ‘Original Hot Chocolate Festival’, presented by CityFood Media, has been brewing delicious chocolate creations. This year, the Festival has grown to 162 creative flavours…
A Baker’s Half-Dozen Spots To Find Holiday Baking Treats For The 2023 Festive Season
Christmas Cookies, Fruitcake, Stollen, Puddings, are all flavours of the Holidays, but baking them yourselves can be very time consuming. Your valuable time, and expensive ingredients you might tonly use once a year, is it worth it to do-it-yourselft? Why not leave the baking to someone else? Vancouver has a whole host of bakeries to help…
Find the Flavours of The 10th Annual Hot Chocolate Festival
The 10th Annual Hot Chocolate Festival has arrived, just in time to help us recover from one of Vancouver’s coldest winter weeks. After spending many a snow day at home, the Hot Chocolate Festival is the perfect way to draw us out of the house from January 18 – February 14, 2020. What could…
Tasting Plates Gastown & Chinatown – recap
A pleasant Vancouver evening, was filled with pleasant company and great food as Tasting Plates visited Gastown & Chinatown on Wednesday October 23rd. Tasting Plates patrons found something sweet and savoury as they walked between the evening’s eateries in the two downtown neighbourhoods. Four of the more recently opened eateries were new to many of…
West Village Cafe creates a community
Tucked into a shopping complex in Surrey, the recently opened West Village Cafe is an urban oasis in a suburban sea of chain store conformity. Even as you enter the bright, contemporary, cafe you are aware that you’re in for something good. Arriving on a Sunday morning, West Village Cafe was bustling and alive with groups…
Tasting Plates Port Moody – recap
Last night, a hungry hoard descended upon Gabi & Jules bakery in Port Moody to kick off Vancouver Foodster’s Tasting Plates Port Moody. The Butcher, the Baker and the Ice Cream Maker were all on the cards for the evening. Tasting Platers picked up their Tasting Plates cards and menus then set out on a…