VanEats

From the "I-don't-know-how-we-missed-this" department, we found out today that Chartwell is serving a 5 course Foie Gras Menu throughout November.

If we had known about this earlier, we would have checked it out because Barb loves foie gras, but now it's too late. If any of our readers have already tried it or will try it out please let us know!

Tourism Vancouver is sponsoring Dine Out Vancouver from January 24th until February 2nd, 2003.

Dine Out Vancouver is modelled on similar events in other cities. It involves more than 50 restaurants. These restaurants will be offering a three course tasting menu (appetizer, entrée and dessert) for $15 or $25. This is an excellent deal!

More info on the participating restaurants soon!

This is a bit off topic but my weblog, rolandtanglao.com, is offline until I can replace the fans on the server that powers it! This may take two weeks because I will be away next week and may not have any time to fix it this week.

My apologies for any incovenience!

I had a funny feeling when I called Boleto last Thursday to make a dinner reservation and their answering machine said that they will be closed until further notice.

Barb and I walked past the restaurant today and found out the reason: financial difficulties.

We hope that it re-opens soon or that the talented people behind Boleto's great bread, desserts and fine food like Pasta Con Le Sarde re-emerge at a new restaurant. Thanks for all the great food and see you soon!

Before going swing dancing at St. James last night, some of our dance friends came over for dessert.

Effective December 1, 2002, we will no longer respond to email sent to vaneats@hotmail.com. Please send all correspondence effective immediately to feedback@vaneats.com.

We received the following email from Hazelmere Organic Farms upcoming cooking class with Greg Hook from Chocolate Arts next Saturday. Email Hazelmere Organics or call them at 604 538 3018 if you are interested.

We can't make it unfortunately but if you do, please send us a full report.

After voting today, why not check out the Granville Island Cheese Festival? It's on today November 16th and tomorrow November 17th at Granville Island.

Check out the cheese from BC's best cheese makers. Slow Food will also be there.

Another affordable luxury is gelato. And we are fortunate to have lots of great gelato in Vancouver!

In this week's Georgia Straight, Angela Murrills raves about Jang Mo Jib. It's an excellent article but she forgot to mention the newly opened Jang Mo Jib Express on Richards Street which we wrote about a week ago.

All three are great and basically have the same food: Express is the smallest, Kingsway has more of a family feel and Robson is noisier, louder and brasher kind of like Robson street!