Seen In Vancouver #356: Scenes From The Swallow Tail Tiki Supper In Bloedel’s Jungle
April 23, 2012
photos by Jessica Beisler | A Swallow Tail tiki supper recently went down in the jungles of the Bloedel Floral Conservatory at the top of Queen Elizabeth Park. Chef Owen Lightly (Butter On The Endive) was there cooking up a storm, as were the good folks from Sea Monstr Sushi, Woodland Smokehouse, Soho Road Naan Kebab, Curious Oyster Catering, and of course, the Swallow Tail Supper Club. Working the drinks front was Hailey Posemko (her Cedar Sour is one of BC’s best drinks). Lesson learned: when summer is scarce, invent one.
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Jessica Beisler is a food and lifestyle photographer from Louisville, Kentucky. Having moved to Vancouver from San Francisco, she has over seven years experience in the film and photography industries. The only thing she loves more than her camera is enjoying great food with good company.
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Seen In Vancouver #355: Virginie & Bastien’s Fresh Eyes On Vancouver’s Neighbourhoods
April 18, 2012
Virginie Lamarche and Bastien Desfriches Doria are two photographers from France hosting awesome film photography workshops in Vancouver. Over the next several months, they will be exploring/shooting our neighbourhoods with the fresh eyes of keen imports. Bastien uses black and white films in various formats while Virginie focuses on colour negative films. For their first Seen In Vancouver session with Scout, they began on the backstreets of their own neighbourhood, Commercial Drive…
If you’re into learning more about film photography, they pair offer everything from a basic 4-hour crash course to darkroom skills and intermediate courses in documentary photography. The workshops are held at the Cineworks space in Railtown, so dust off the old manual and get going!
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SEEN IN VANCOUVER #354: A Tempting Offer For $2.50 On The Downtown Eastside
April 5, 2012
As seen on Main & Hastings this morning (with bonus/appropriate Confucius chaser).
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SEEN IN VANCOUVER #353: The 2012 BC AeroPress Championships At Revolver Coffee
April 4, 2012
by Rommy Ghaly | In 1984, Stanford University engineering grad Alan Adler invented the Aerobie, a flying disc that would set world records for being the farthest thrown object. But in the coffee world, Alan Adler would become known for something far more impressive: the AeroPress coffee brewing method and device, which he invented in 2005. Aligning with the recent boom in artisan-prepared coffee brews, the AeroPress is a method which has provided coffee connoisseurs with a new way of tasting coffee that uses air pressure to extract the maximum amount of flavour from a grind with minimal residue and within a very short period of time.
On April 1st, 2012, Vancouver’s own Revolver Coffee hosted the first ever BC (and Canadian) qualifier for the annual World AeroPress Championship, a major competition held this April 20th in Portland “Where Baristas Go to Die” Oregon. A group of BC’s most talented baristas came together in Gastown for what would prove to be an epic coffee battle for the ages. The packed house (including three expert judges) watched 12 guys duke it out for three hours. Only one person could walk home with a spot representing BC (and Canada by default) in Portland later this month.
The passion, hard work, and expertise exhibited by these baristas is something that really needs to be seen in person to be appreciated. There is a genuine craft behind the serving of a great cup of coffee and Sunday was the showcase for the greatest craftsmen in the province.
Congratulations to Cody Smith from Black & White Coffee Roasters of Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island. Don’t let us down, Cody, since we all know what happens when Vancouver gets let down in a championship.
For more information on the 2012 BC AeroPress Championships at Revolver, be sure to check out their blog.
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Rommy Ghaly was born and raised in New York. He’s spent the past sixteen years moving around from city to city and country to country, trying (and failing miserably) to find himself. You may see him out in the streets with his cameras taking photos of people he doesn’t know. The results of those adventures can be found at vancouverish.com.
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SEEN IN VANCOUVER #352: A Look Inside “Harvest Community Foods” On Union Street
April 2, 2012
Pretty stoked about Harvest Community Foods, which just opened over the weekend at 243 Union Street. The shelves are a little sparse to start off, but we picked up some great cheese from Golden Ears (mmm, Neufchatel), plenty of organic kale, and some salmon burgers from Daily Catch. Plus their steam buns are pretty amazeballs! Check it out for yourselves.
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SEEN IN VANCOUVER #351: Nevermind The Cold, It’s The Sun! Take Your Damn Shirt Off
March 26, 2012
It’s not summer yet (as evidenced by the cold and lack of greenery), but a sunny, nippy walk along Jericho Beach over the weekend brought with it a typical find for late March: nuts who just can’t wait. Bless ‘em.
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SEEN IN VANCOUVER #350: The Last Day Of Refuel’s Fried Chicken (The Best In The City)
March 23, 2012
by Andrew Morrison | Today was the last day that Vancouverites could enjoy the taste of Refuel’s ridiculously good buttermilk fried chicken. Sadly, the Kitsilano restaurant will close for good tomorrow (Saturday) after nearly two and a half years in business. It will make way for Fable, the first restaurant from Top Chef Canada competitor Trevor Bird, who has a hard act to follow.
Unsurprisingly, they were so jam-packed at lunch today that they ran out of chicken. Word is they’re busily making more for dinner service as I write this, but I’ve certainly had my fill for the day (three pieces of Polderside Farm’s chicken, a jalapeno biscuit, coleslaw and gravy). Saying goodbye has never been so tasty, but the question remains: who has the best fried chicken in town now that Refuel is gone?
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SEEN IN VANCOUVER #349: How A Cook Sabers Champers “Kitchen-Style” At Boneta
March 19, 2012
Before the crew at Boneta went on to celebrate their staff party at The Waldorf last night, they gathered in the closed restaurant to mess around. When tasked with sabering a bottle of Champagne for the first time, one of the cooks (Mark) was asked to employ one of his everyday tools, a saucepan, for the job. Because of course.
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SEEN IN VANCOUVER #348: The Best Sorts Of Things That Good Friends Bring For Dinner
March 13, 2012
A few weeks ago our out-of-town friends Heidi and Michael showed up unannounced at our doorstep and then then proceeded to drink our booze and eat our food. It was good times, but they felt guilty despite our hospitality. So this time around, tonight, they called ahead and brought with them 5 pizzas and a whole bunch of chicken liver toasts from Nook, six bottles of cold Lagunitas, a young Arbois Poulsard and an aged Martinegra Barbaresco, a two foot tall bottle of Augustijn blond beer from Belgium, a mountain of well dressed greens, plus a decadent “Fuck Yeah” chocolate mousse cake. So it’s totally even stevens.
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SEEN IN VANCOUVER #347: Lewis Bennett Takes Us To Peachland’s “Parrot Island”
March 6, 2012
A few weeks ago we presented a short film that was all about the detached, sneakered feet that have washed up on our shores over the last few years. “Feet” was the first of 12 shorts that Lewis Bennett aims to make about BC in 2012. The film above is the second. From Lewis…
February’s film is about Ray Parkes who runs a parrot sanctuary in Peachland BC, with his wife Valerie and a few volunteers. The facility is called Parrot Island. It was set up to take care of abandoned parrots and to help educate the public on why we shouldn’t be buying these birds.
Note to pedants: It may have been shot in the Okanagan, but we still saw it in Vancouver. Enjoy.
