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The Pie Shoppe’s Hands-On Pie-Making Workshops Are Finally Back!

The Pie Shoppe‘s pie workshops are back on August 29th and September 1st! Co-owner and expert pie maker Stephanie French will be leading the two Summer Pie Making 101 sessions, featuring some of the season’s most incredible local stone fruit (think peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots and cherries) and other top notch ingredients.

The hands-on classes, which are ideal for novices (no experience is necessary), will cover all the techniques and knowledge you need  in order to make your own 10″ seasonal fruit pie. From learning the basics of starches, pectin, sugars, fats and oils, to making your filling selection; how to create a killer crust and prepare your fruit, to the art of personal pastry expression and decoration. Participants will also have the added bonus of learning a thing or two about natural wine while their pies are baking, since tastings of a handful of carefully selected BC bottles are also on the agenda.

Piqued pie-lovers can choose between either a weekend afternoon time slot (Sunday August 29th from 1-4pm) or a weekday evening (Wednesday, Sept. 1st from 6-9pm). Both options are $135, all-in, and entitle you to your very own pie to take home, plus recipes, tips, tipples and, likely, a few new friends. In order to keep Covid-safe, class sizes are restricted to only six people per day, though, so sign up here now to secure your spot!


The Pie Shoppe
Neighbourhood: East Vancouver
1875 Powell St.
(Closed)
604-338-6646

Niwa Heads to Hazelmere Farm for a Mid-Summer Feast, July 25th

The crew at Niwa and Hazelmere Farm have been pals for years, so it was probably only a matter of time before somebody had the good sense to set up a table. On July 25, Chef Darren Gee cooks dinner at the source, with Naty King's fields helping decide what's on the menu.

A Neighbourhood-Wide Invitation to Wander Chinatown

When summer foot traffic slowed, a group of Chinatown businesses responded the way the best neighbourhoods often do: by working together. Their month-long Chinatown Passport is an invitation to wander, eat, drink and rediscover the neighbourhood.

How About a Week in Italy, With Wine as Your Focus?

Got plans this fall? If not, spending a week eating and drinking your way through Italy seems like a pretty good place to start.

Shincha, Foraged Greens, and the Arrival of Summer

Created in collaboration with Japan's oldest tea house, this one-day Mæst Food dinner offers a thoughtful look at what early summer has to offer.