“I Looked Out The Window To See The Rain Turned To Snow…”

“The First Snow” by Reid Carrescia.

“I looked out the window late this afternoon to see the rain turned to snow—so I grabbed the Canon 7D and fired away.”

(via Likecool)

The New Logo For Kitsilano’s Refuel, Soon To (Re)Open On 4th

Scout broke the news a couple of weeks ago that Kitsilano’s award-winning Fuel Restaurant was going to go under the same reconstructive surgery that saw Parkside and Gastropod rebranded as L’Altro Buca and Maenam.

It has since closed, and now will transmogrify into Refuel, a casual restaurant of refined comforts at accessible price points. It opens on Wednesday (that’s the new logo to the left).

Times are tough, and when the going gets tough, the tough adapt. If they don’t, well…they die, and dying isn’t very tough, is it?  The change is a smart, necessary move, and the new food menu looks mighty fine, making Refuel a story of prudence I’m particularly looking forward to reading eating.

Hart House On Deer Lake Readies For Holiday Season Events

News from Scout supporter Hart House

Vancouver, BC | Burnaby’s Hart House Restaurant is always a great place to celebrate life’s special moments. Our house is a welcoming retreat to enjoy the company of your friends and family during this festive time of year… Read more

Wine & Spirit Education (WSET) Programs At PICA This Fall

News from Scout Supporter PICA

(VANCOUVER, BC) – Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts (PICA) is now an approved program provider for the WSET® (Wine & Spirit Education Trust) wine training programs and will commence its first intake in September 2009.

PICA has been providing quality wine study programs for a number of years, but this new partnership with London, UK based WSET will allow students to sit for the WSET exam and receive an internationally recognized certificate in Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced level wine studies. Read more

Ee-Aye-Ee-Aye-Ohh! “From Field To Feast” At Polderside Farms…

There’s a big, country-style dinner going down out at Polderside Farms on August 30th. I toured the farm and spent some time with farmers Virginia and Jens-Hugo Jacobsen a couple of years back with some chefs after they first went into production and was impressed by their operation (they’re really nice people, too). As recipients of last year’s Vancouver magazine Supplier of the Year award, they’re well loved by the local cooking community for their humane production of superb poultry (ever had the fried chicken at Fuel – wow). The dinner, dubbed “From Field To Feast”, sounds pretty wonderful. From the presser:

Dinner will be served on tables draped in white linen, under a marquee tent. Local wine and beer will be paired with each entrée. You will be serenaded by the award winning “The Wheat in the Barley”, a Celtic-rural blend that will set the mood for the evening while you enjoy the mouthwatering tastes of Polderside’s wonderful heritage chicken and duck, along with other organic foods from the Fraser Valley.

Click here for all the details.

The Most Superbly Gratuitous Post-Taste Music Video, Ever…

Major Lazer’s “Pon De Floor”. Directed by Eric Wareheim. Styling by Ammany Ahmad.

Hilariously indecent. If you have small children in the room, a limited sense of humour, a crass sensitivity, or trouble reconciling art with either satire or sex, stop here. Otherwise, be amazed…this video gets more and more ridiculous as the song continues. I’m still laughing, amazed that the internet hasn’t broken yet. What will Madonna do now?

On The Scout Ipod: The Best Tiny Venue “Live” Acoustic Gig, Ever

Michelle tuned me into this late in 2008, and I think I may have posted it on Scout before, perhaps in the Daily Viral. Nevertheless, it was the song of our recent Outstanding Road Trip, and I can’t get it out of my head. “It” is Bon Iver performing Skinny Love in front of twenty people with candles and wine inside a small Montemartre apartment in Paris. I really hope you find it as pretty dang electrifying as I do. Read more

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