GOODS: Details For The Waldorf Hotel’s Oaxacan Halloween “Dinner For The Dead”
October 17, 2011
The Waldorf Hotel is located at 1489 East Hastings in beautiful Vancouver, BC | 604.253.7141 | WaldorfHotel.com
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Vancouver, BC | This Halloween, the Waldorf summons you to feast with your dearly departed in the age old Día de los Muertos ceremony. Preceding our massive Halloween parties on Friday October 28 and Saturday October 29, The Waldorf will be hosting a sacred performance ritual and Oaxacan feast. Attendees are requested to bring a picture or personal item of a departed one that they would like to remember and place it at the Altar of the Dead. A three-course Oaxacan meal—created by Ernesto Kut Gomez and Cesar de la Parra—with a Mezcal apertif and canapes will be served first for the dead and then for the rememberers. Artists Emilio Rojas, Guadalupe Martinez and Matias Armendaris will perform and lead you through an interactive ritual for the dead. Following the ritual there will be live mariachi entertainment. Come celebrate, feast and remember with joy. Expect the transcendent. Details and menu after the jump… Read more
GOODS: The Waldorf Hotel Hires Argentine “Rodolfo Sanchez” As Chef-In-Residence
September 19, 2011
The Waldorf Hotel is located at 1489 East Hastings in beautiful Vancouver, BC | 604.253.7141 | WaldorfHotel.com
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Vancouver, BC | The Waldorf Hotel’s Chef-in-Residence program brings carefully selected talent to provide exciting, culinary adventures within one of the most unique spaces in the world. The new menu co-created by Rodolfo Sanchez, Cesar de la Parra and Ernesto Gomez features modern takes on the Argentine Asado: a sacred ritual where a nation’s obsession for fire, meat and wine are one and the same.
Details after the jump… Read more
GOODS: The Waldorf’s Tiki Bar To Launch “Exotica” Night Of Vintage Burlesque…
June 10, 2011
The Waldorf Hotel is located at 1489 East Hastings in beautiful Vancouver, BC | 604.253.7141 | WaldorfHotel.com
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Vancouver, BC | The Waldorf is tapping into Vancouver’s rich history of vaudeville and burlesque by launching Exotica with two nights of auditions. Happening every Wednesday in our world famous Tiki Bar, the night is curated by Cecilia Bravo, the founder of Vancouver’s burlesque scene. A throwback to high glamour events from the 30s and 40s, attendees can expect an authentic burlesque experience. Open casting calls are on June 22nd and June 29th and these events will be open to the public. Special guest, Chaz Royal, a global force in the burlesque revival, will be DJing and hosting alongside Miss Bravo. Selected dancers will be added to Exotica’s regular rotating cast.
Anyone interested in auditioning should send an email to auditions@waldorfhotel.com. Get all the details after the jump… Read more
GOODS: The “East Van Wine Academy” To DIsh & Dazzle At “The Waldorf Hotel”
June 3, 2011
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Vancouver, BC | Local wine lovers attending the next edition of Vancouver’s popular East Van Wine Academy at the Waldorf Hotel might just leave with more than increased wine knowledge and some new favourite grape varietals.
Each attendee of “East Van Wine Academy: South America!” on Tuesday, June 14th will be entered into a draw courtesy of Wines of Chile to win two tickets to the upcoming “Dish & Dazzle” event at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel, celebrating food, cocktail culture and a vast array of wines from Chile. ”Dish & Dazzle” features 12 of Vancouver’s finest restaurants alongside 20 Chilean wineries plus a cocktail competition featuring Vancouver’s top bar talent, assembled together to benefit the BC Hospitality Association, a registered charity that offers financial assistance, beyond traditional medical benefits, to people who work in food, beverage and hospitality professions at a critical time of need. Read more
GOODS: Waldorf & Douglas Coupland Host Presentation on Global Village & YouTube
May 9, 2011
The Waldorf Hotel is located at 1489 East Hastings in beautiful Vancouver, BC | 604.253.7141 | WaldorfHotel.com
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Vancouver, BC | Marshall McLuhan knew exactly what the Internet was going to be. The only thing he didn’t know is what it was actually going to look like. It’s why so much of what he said and wrote in the 1960s and 1970s alienated critics. He was trying to be poetic and theoretical about what we now simply call interfaces, links and apps. And now, from the hindsight of 2011, we can surf, via YouTube, our rich collective consciousness as it finally revealed itself online.
Our collective being takes the form of cute cat videos, videos of Japanese devastation, mid-East political revolution, trampoline disasters and…well, would Marshall have been horrified or fascinated? Probably both. Coupland, with the global success of his recent biography of McLuhan (“You Know Nothing of My Work!” James Atlas & Co., NYC) can offer us a more precise look at ourselves via the ultimate manifestation of the global village, YouTube. Expect a back-and-forth experience between the audience, Coupland and the world itself. Details after the jump… Read more
GOODS: The Waldorf & Stan Douglas To Present Fassbinder’s “Berlin Alexanderplatz”
March 30, 2011
The Waldorf Hotel is located at 1489 East Hastings in beautiful Vancouver, BC | 604.253.7141 | www.waldorfhotel.com
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Vancouver, BC | The Waldorf and the Goethe-Institut are proud to present Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s legendary television program as part of our Sunday afternoon screening series, Day for Night. The thirteen episodes and epilogue will be screened through the month of April, four episodes every Sunday afternoon. The entire series will be launched Sunday, April 3rd with an introductory talk by renowned Vancouver artist Stan Douglas. Read more
GOODS: An Awesome St. Patrick’s Day Set To Go Down At East Van’s Iconic “Waldorf”
March 14, 2011
The Waldorf Hotel is located at 1489 East Hastings in beautiful Vancouver, BC | 604.253.7141 | www.waldorfhotel.com
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Vancouver, BC | The Waldorf presents Irish music, dance and special performances this St. Patrick’s Day, Thursday, March 17 in the Cabaret. The evening, hosted by acclaimed dancer and choreographer Joel Hanna, will feature BC Regiment Irish Pipes and Drums, O’Conner-O’Brien Irish Dancers, De Dannan and more… Read more
GOODS: The Waldorf Hotel And Kurtis Kolt Launch “The East Van Wine Academy”
March 7, 2011
The Waldorf Hotel is located at 1489 East Hastings in beautiful Vancouver, BC | 604.253.7141 | www.waldorfhotel.com
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Vancouver, BC | The Waldorf and resident sommelier Kurtis Kolt are proud to launch the East Van Wine Academy. The series of courses and parties begins Tuesday, March 22, 2011 and will return the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. The East Van Wine Academy is creating a casual and dynamic arena to learn about and enjoy wine, something that can be considered elitist or intimidating.
“Wine is for everyone”, says Kolt, who will host every event, “Most people want to learn about wine but traditional classes can be intimidating, costly or require a large time-commitment. The East Van Wine Academy is an affordable, inclusive and comfortable environment for people to expand their knowledge about wine while enjoying high quality food, music and art.” Learn more about it after the jump… Read more
Photos: “The Waldorf Hotel” Is Looking Sharp On East Hastings
October 27, 2010
by Andrew Morrison | As mentioned last week in a press release, the new and – by the looks of it – much improved Waldorf Hotel is to be christened this weekend. We’re very excited, not least because of the awesome people involved, who were this week joined by former Salt Tasting Room manager and 2010 Sommelier of the Year, Kurtis Kolt (interview). There’s so much going on at this address that it’s hard to fathom fully in its as-yet-unfinished state. But all the pieces seem to be fitting together nicely, down to the analog speakers, rooms, cafe, salon, bar, gift shop and refreshingly left-field tiki vibe. The only hiccup that I know of is that the main restaurant will be delayed until at least Dec. 1st (no worries, as this venue is hardly a one room wonder – food and drink will still be in abundance).
Today, in anticipation of their Halloween opening, I took one of our cameras (not the best, sorry) down for a tour and probably – if only briefly – interrupted a thousand crucial things for which I apologise (much appreciated, Ned and Ernesto). After the photos, check out their late night, room service and cafe menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner… Read more
Grand (Re)Opening Of The Iconic “Waldorf Hotel” This Saturday
October 26, 2010
The Waldorf Hotel is located at 1489 East Hastings and will open at the end of October, 2010 | www.waldorfhotel.com
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Vancouver, BC | We are pleased to announce the relaunch of the Waldorf Hotel. To celebrate, we’re throwing a free multi-room Halloween party on Saturday, Oct 30th. The event will showcase the entire complex including our newly renovated hotel rooms and lobby, two dining areas, a freshly restored 1950s tiki bar and both nightclub and banquet spaces (the Cabaret and the Leeteg Room). The night is being produced in collaboration with some of Vancouver’s most interesting artists and musicians. Read the full program listing after the jump… Read more
