CITY SPLITZ
Whistler’s Splitz Grill owners, Trevor and Miriam Jackson, recently sold their 10-year-old burger bar in Whistler and opened a new Splitz Grill at 4242 Main Street. Choose your patty—beef, chicken, salmon, Italian sausage, lentil, or veggie—and top it with your choices from 20 condiments on offer, including Splitz special sauce, hummus, sprouts, cheese, and onions.

ABS SOLUTION
Already trashed those new year’s resolutions? Get re-inspired at the 16th annual Wellness Show at the Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre from Friday to Sunday (February 1 to 3). With over 300 exhibitors dishing the latest in nutrition and health, plus cooking demos with chefs like Le Crocodile’s Franck Berthelon, help is at hand. Tickets are at www.thewellnessshow.com/.

HEARTS ARE TRUMPS
Home canoodling could be super-sweet on Valentine’s Day if you feed each other nibbles of romantically decorated cookies-on-a-stick ($2.95 each) or share a heart-shaped chocolate truffle cake ($5.95). Both are at T Room (4445 West 10th Avenue), where the insatiable can drool over an eight-inch version of that wickedly good truffle cake ($38).

TINKER'S THINKS PINK
Every year, Tinker’s Hatch Bakery (4894 Mackenzie Street) bakes loaves of pink bread ($3) in celebration of St. Valentine. They’re available from Monday (February 4) sliced, or unsliced if you call ahead (604-261-4484). Stash some “I Love You” gingerbread or chocolate “sweethearts” in your bag, too.

WHERE ITALY MEETS SINGAPORE
Food from Italy and Singapore currently converge at Prima Taste (570 Robson Street), where an Italian spring roll with curry dip precedes seafood laksa spaghetti, followed by tiramisu with a roti crisp. The set dinner is $25. If that’s too much fusion adventure, try the three-course Singaporean table d’hôte, also $25.

PLASTIC UNFANTASTIC
Relax, you can still pay with your credit card at Capers (various locations) but, come Earth Day (April 22), don’t expect to lug your chard home in a plastic bag. That’s when the stores plan to be free of them. They will reward you for bringing your own reusable version with a 10-cent refund per bag.

NUTRI-NUGGETS
Registered holistic nurse, Paula Luther, is back with her popular Chickpea nutrition events (www.chick peanutrition.blogspot.com/), including a hands-on cooking workshop, Eating Through the Seasons the Vegan Way, February 10 at Britannia Secondary School (1001 Cotton Drive, $45). On February 24, Sugar: Refining the Truth is at Britannia Community Centre (1661 Napier Street) for $15. Register at 604-718-5800.