DESTINATIONS VANCOUVER FOR FOODIES CANADA Vancouver’s culinary calendar
There’s always something exciting to eat and drink in Vancouver, but dedicated culinary visitors can make a date with these foodie festivals.
JANUARY Dine Out Vancouver Canada’s largest food and drink festival is pinned around prix-fixe menus at restaurants across the city, along with foodie events and special dinners.
ABOVE: The Loden’s Tableau Bar Bistro
of French bubbly for £3.50 and punchy steak tartare for only £7. Sleep: This is a sleek boutique sparkling with Philippe Starck fixtures that blend with a wellness vibe.
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BEST OF BOTH Eat: Just a couple of blocks away, The Listel Hotel has not one but two restaurants. There’s the casual Timber gastropub, featuring craft brews, hockey on TV, and Canadian comfort food gems such as deep-fried cheese curds and bison burgers. Forage offers an upscale experience with seasonal locavore cuisine with deft ‘cheffy’ touches such as duck smoked with grand fir tips. Sleep: Expect an eco-friendly boutique with a great collection of modern and indigenous artworks.
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CASINO CASUAL Eat: There’s plenty of choice at the JW Marriott Parq Vancouver. BC Kitchen and Market East overlook its gambling tables and slot machines, offering pub fare and tasty southeast Asian comfort foods respectively. Honey-Salt serves up farm-to-table casual eats, and the Lotus Whisky and Tea Lounge has a great selection of loose-leaf tea by day, plus an impressive whisky list by night, accompanied by live music. Sleep: This is a great fit for cruise clients, with a vast entertainment complex, casino and spa on site.
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FEBRUARY Vancouver International Wine Festival Canada’s premier wine festival features international wineries, winemaker dinners, wine-fuelled parties and educational seminars.
It serves seasonal locavore cuisine with deft ‘cheffy’ touches such as duck smoked with grand fir tips
MEAT FEAST Eat: Imagine a Vegas steakhouse transplanted to Vancouver and you’ve got Victor, a temple to carnivorous desires with equally rapt attention to sushi and seafood, at The Douglas. The D/6 Lounge has a gentlemen’s-club vibe with pool table and cocktails. Sleep: Look out for the vast Douglas fir reception desk, raw concrete ceilings and an incredible mirrored light installation in the lift.
thedouglasvancouver.com Book it: Prestige Holidays has five nights’ room-only at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel, including Air Transat flights from Gatwick to Vancouver on July 12 and the two-hour Vancouver Foodie – Granville Island Market Tour, from £2,191 per person.
prestigecanda.co.uk First Class Holidays offers four nights in Vancouver that features a foodie tour of Granville Island and a Best of Downtown tour. Prices start at £725 per person at The Loden and £499 at The Listel Hotel, excluding flights.
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APRIL Sakura (Cherry Blossom) Season Cherry trees across the city burst into pink-and-white blossoms and restaurants (especially Japanese) celebrate with blossom-themed menus.
BC Distilled Festival Visitors to the largest spirits event in Canada for local distilleries can sample everything from gin, rum and vodka to vermouth and fruit liqueurs.
MAY Spot Prawn Season
The brief super-sustainable spot prawn season (a luscious, sweet and juicy prawn, native to the west coast of Canada) is celebrated with special dinners and a huge festival at the False Creek Fishermen’s Wharf, thrown by the Chef’s Table Society.
MAY TO SEPTEMBER Night Market Season Whether it’s the vast Asian street-food events in nearby Richmond, or the waterfront of north Vancouver’s Shipyards market, night time is when foodies get their culinary kicks under the stars.
AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER The Fair at the PNE
Cheesy 1980s and 1990s bands, crazy fun-fair rides and over-the-top carnival foods are on the menu at the city’s annual summer fair. Where else can you try delights such as hot-dog-stuffed pickles on a stick?
OCTOBER UBC Apple Festival Snack on 60 varieties of local apples at this family-friendly event.
NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER German Christmas Market Sure, you can shop for crafts and gifts but it’s all about the decadent cuisine at this annual event, from gooey cheese raclette to spicy curried spätzle.
PICTURES: TOURISM VANCOUVER; JOERN ROHDE; MARK KINSKOFER/VISION EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY
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