Dining

Dining Features

Dining Features | Georgia Straight Living

Dutch ovens get stews and kitchen decor cooking

By Carolyn Ali

On a cold, damp day, a bubbling stew simmering slowly in the oven defines the hearth of the house. And there’s something especially primal about preparing and serving food in a timeless, earthy vessel.

Dining Features

Vancouver restaurants need a nudge to buy local

By Judith Lane

Neptune Food Service's Brandon Owen is helping restaurants switch from trucked-in to local ingredients one plate at a time.

Food of the Week

Lovely leberwurst pâté

By Carolyn Ali

Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the decadent season that snowballs into December and this local food store carries a delicious, silky Hausmacher Leberwurst.

Drink of the Week

Tinhorn Creek winemaker Sandra Oldfield

By Jurgen Gothe

Among the winemaker's tastiest achievements, vintage after vintage, is the one she calls 2Bench, a handsome, multilayered white blend whose 2007 vintage is no exception.

Straight Goods

Six food & dining events

By Carolyn Ali and Judith Lane

For those panicking over their pastry, take heart. There’s still time to learn the perfect technique this Saturday at the Cookshop & Cookschool.

Wine Beer and Spirits

Books | Georgia Straight Living | Wine Beer and Spirits

Pick global grapes in 1001 Wines You Must Taste Before You Die

Nobody can say that readers of 1001 Wines You Must Taste Before You Die (Universe, $39.95) aren’t ambitious. Those who find pleasure in not just drinking but chasing down the world’s finest vino now have a guide.

Georgia Straight Living | Wine Beer and Spirits

A toast to sophisticated classic cocktails

With the return to the kind of old-school highballs and on-the-rocks drinks Humphrey Bogart might have served at Rick’s Cafe Americain, not just any glasses will do. Here’s our toast to some classics.