aggregated from: Beyond Robson

OK, so that was pretty fun. I have to say though, before I start, that the police did a wonderful job at crowd control. They were high fiving people down Granville St. and playing street hockey. Although one officer didn't like my end prohibition, o...

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Own the Podium dream over: Canadian official. Way to go ahead and wave the white flag with a week left. Oh, and apparently its the fault of boisterous crowds. Also, stop wearing so much red. Downtown Vancouver liquor stores to close early. Yeah but n...

topics: downtown, liquor

aggregated from: Chow Times

This is just a quickie post since I had already done an in-depth review of Chef Todd s 12B Underground Kitchen in this post here.My first visit to 12B was when I joined a group of Vancouver Chowhounds. That was back in December last year. That sittin...

topics: diner, halibut, liquor, menu, restaurant

aggregated from: Vancouverite

Check out my new article over at Scout Magazine on the long overdue Vokapocalypse. Special thanks to editor Andrew Morrison who took my latest cocktail napkin ramblings and helped turn them into something coherent. At my local government liquor dist...

aggregated from: Chow Times

Life is good especially not having to work on Fridays.So, after the boys went to school, Suanne and I went to have a real nice breakfast. I just love those unhurried mornings. It is unhurried because it felt like a bonus day off and I had nothing s...

topics: cafe, coffee, liquor, menu, restaurant

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

What Vancouver means to meTo me, Vancouver means antiquated liquor laws: New city liquor bylaw to limit sale of fine wines in Vancouver restaurants. Way to impress those coming dignitaries. It means blatantly pro-corporate media dressed up as working...

topics: liquor, olympics, restaurants

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Robert Dziekanski's death at the Vancouver International Airport involved unprecedented circumstances and is unlikely to be repeated. Because there has never been an angry, confused passenger who speaks a foreign language at an airport EVER. Beside...

topics: 2010-winter-games, downtown, downtown-eastside, liquor, olympics

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Hell of a title, if I do say so myself.It's about that time that I remind you about the tyrannical and soul-crushing status of our current liquor laws. There's a council meeting this October 8th that seeks to make a movement towards later hours for f...

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Here I am back in Lotusland, Terminal City, Raincity, Vankizzer, the 'Couv, whatever your particular name is for Vancouver. I have around ten months to soak up the city before hightailing it back across the country and setting up shop in Toronto for ...

aggregated from: Don Genova's Blog

It's difficult to distill' the spirit' you get when you hit the entranceway of Island Spirits Distillery on Hornby Island.p After driving through the dense bush lining the gravel road, a clearing awaits, in which it wouldn't be unusual to see...

topics: liquor, winemaker