Artisanal butchers on the rise in France

Butchers in Vancouver might a dying breed but with its number of artisanal butchers on the rise, it's still cool to be a carnivore in France.

How the French boost their local producers

Supermarkets in France take an obvious and profound pride in their regions and encourage their consumers regularly to buy local goodies such as saucisson sec and––of course––wine.

Saving on summer's hot looks

The original plan was to tell you how to assemble a complete summer wardrobe for around $100. What kind of drugs was I on?

Seven food and dining events

Tips and tricks to find the fashionable you in Vancouver

Practicalities: check your own closet and you’ll discover you wear 10 percent of your clothing 90 percent of the time.

South China Seas Trading Co.

Moments savoured over many courses in Vancouver

Hanging out in John Bishop's kitchen and finding out what makes him tick is one of the pleasures of writing about food in Vancouver, says Angela Murrills as she bids farewell to the city.

Seven food and dining events

Sex and the City themed fashion show at Changes

Be realistic. Chances are you won’t score a seat for the opening of the Sex and the City movie next Friday (May 30), so give it a few days.

Mistral French Bistro

Get cooking inspiration from farmers market veggies

Puzzled by sunroots? The easiest way to educate yourself before you stick something odd and knobbly in your basket is to begin with the obvious and ask the people at the markets who grew it.

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Angus An mixes it up for flavour’s sake at Gastropod

Angus An uses all the traditional Asian elements, but in nontraditional formats, to produce dishes that are as good to the eye as they are on the palate.

Swimsuit designs for real women and supermodels

Sea Queen fills a gap in a world where most designs are geared to the young and coltlike, and according to Monika Schnarre, what designer jeans have done for the butt, their swimwear has done for the bustline.

Chris Knight’s Road Grill

Salvation Army Thrift Store Fashion Show

Afternoon tea at a posh hotel, a fashion show, and a chance to impress Mom with your savvy eye for secondhand fashion, all for $20?

Sexy dresses take it to the maxi this summer

For the first time in many seasons, ankle-length dresses will return to Vancouver sidewalks, with a wide range of styles to tickle your ankles.

Provence Mediterranean Grill

Wooden utensils cut waste at fast-food restaurants

Mother’s Day meals + the Spot Prawn Festival kicks off

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Enjoy the jazzy pizzazz at Mango’s Japanese Kozara

There's no sushi, sashimi, or B.C. rolls, but the colourful Japanese tapas on offer here are full of clean flavours and a real visual wow factor.

Ineke line’s evocative Evening Edged in Gold

After launching scents whose names start with A, B, C, and D, Canadian-born “nose” Ineke Rí¼hland has created—well, no prizes for figuring out that it begins with E.

Bombshell drops girlie bargains with a bang

Like many new moms, Elizabeth Yap-Chung wasn’t jumping up and down with glee at the thought of returning to the 9 to 5 world after her maternity leave ended. But where most women heave a sigh, organize childcare, and resign themselves to the daily commute, Yap-Chung started to think about a way around it.

Artisan SakeMaker

How green and veggie beautiful is your garden?

Small white flowers, blue-black berries, golden-orange leaves, vivid red stalks—hearing Caitlin Black describe the seasons of a blueberry bush makes you want to go out and plant your whole yard with them.

Mandala Iki Asian Bistro

Let Don Genova show you how to eat, direct from Italy

New brunch at Beyond Restaurant + Lounge

Shaken: Not Stirred Sunday Brunch, Shakespeare’s 444th birthday, a hip new watering hole, carbon-neutral coffee bar, Vista D’oro Farms, FigMint Restaurant & Lounge and fried chicken Fuel Restaurant.

Subtle spice route leads to Saravanaa Bhavan

The signatures of southern India's food are complex spicing, lightness, and freshness. Discover them all at this Broadway vegetarian restaurant.

Rocky Mountain Soap Company

Logically, good skin-care products should come from places with cold, dry climates that suck out every bit of moisture.

New talent, hip pros hit Fashion Week runways

A biannual happening since 2004, Vancouver Fashion Week was a once-a-year thang when show producer Jamal Abdourahman first launched the event in 2001.

Bike the Blossoms

We're pleased as punch to give you this week's dining tips

Hoodie Swap Charity Clothing Drive

Just write old hoodies and designer shoes on your calendar.

At TRENDS, these teens buck the fashion herd

A fashion and image project for teens encourages them to evolve their own style rather than follow the fashion herd of scuzzy celebs and supermodels.

Eight cookbooks to tantalize taste buds

From the plainspoken dietary analysis of John Thorne, to succulent Portuguese pork and clams, or fun foods for kids, there's plenty here to whet your appetites.

Avalon Dairy

The Cascade Room riffs on British posh pub grub

With retro beer mats for cold pints of lager, large platters of squid, and thumping great burgers, the Cascade Room serves up a tasty night out.

Shoe designer John Fluevog opens second store in Gastown

Love his funk ’n’ fantasy shoes, not just for their cool, irreverent style but for the good conditions they’re made in, and the fact that you can get them fixed (which you can’t say for a lot of brands out there).

Dress for work-travel success

Know your itinerary and dress right for business travel; at Impact: An Event for Change’s fundraiser, low-income women get job-ready style help too.

Gastropod

Designs flaunt simple, sexy, and lots of wood at IDSWEST

Wood is good was the underlying theme at Interior Design Show West (IDSWEST), held March 19 to 22 at the Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre.

Ocean Wise Restaurant Directory

Make room in your kitchen for grains to swell up with flavour

Critics taste and tell on city's best

It was like herding cats to get this year’s panel together to judge the Golden Plates critics’ awards, but eventually we did.

Rob Feenie's keeping it real

At it's core, family-style cooking is simple, unpretentious, tasty food. And that’s what Feenie predicts we’ll soon be eating in restaurants.

Green Is the New Black Wearable Art Fashion Show

A sumptuous cape pieced together from silk scarves coloured with natural dyes from plants grown in the artist’s own garden. Discarded duds cut into strips, rewoven, and stitched into a jacket. Good idea or what?

B.C. catwalks span the globe

Thanks to the Internet, relatives in Croatia and a friend in Australia had front-row seats as RozeMerie Cuevas sent her signature curvy dresses and suits down the runway.

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New face for Feenies, Wine fest awards, Tequila takes a shot with new resto & more

Cosy Chilli Padi cooks up a Malaysian mix

Until you can lay waste to the food of Melaka, Kuching, and Kuala Lumpur, we have new this restaurant to keep you occupied... and satisfied.