VanEats

It's Winter Market time again at the Heritage Hall at 15th and Main.  Like last year, it's from 10a.m.-5p.m. this Saturday and Sunday and it costs $2. 

For more info, check out  Your Local Farmers Market Society 8th Annual Winter Market  page at eatlocal.org.

See you there!

VegEats is a collection of links to vegan and vegetarian restaurants and recipes.  No RSS file to subscribe to so it's hard to keep up with the site but it looks like a great reference.  Check it out.

Barb and I visited Cucina Manila today.  It's a bright but spartan room.  There is no table service.  Instead you order at the front, cafeteria style.  The staff is friendly and were very patient dealing with my bad Filipino and numerous questions.

where2eat.ca is another Vancouver restaurant guide website that doesn't have an RSS file that you can subscribe to.  It seems to be a totally ad-driven site.  Is it just me or are these sites all alike? Anyways you can choose restaurants by location (e.g.

Barb and I noticed tonight at Choices that Farm Folk/City Folk are selling 2004 calendars.  $1.00 goes to Farm Folk/City folk and it's not just a calendar; it's a veritable treasure trove of info about the BC farmers who feed us.  Check it!

We'll be buying one soon.

Founded way back in 1994, The World-Wide Sushi Restaurant Guide (which I found through Derek Miller's excellent penmachine although I can't find the exact entry) is a compendium of the world's sushi restaurants along with  helpful glossary which has great information about sushi and Japanese food in general .

Barb and I had so much fun at the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinners in 2002 and 2003 that I started a blog about it called GungHaggisFatChoy.com with Toddish McWong, the creative genius behind the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinners.  Check it out!

In this week's West Ender, Robin Mines linked to VanEats in her story  For local foodies, the web's the way to go .  Thanks!

Via MedMusings, I heard about Debra Weber's French cuisine blog ( RSS file that you can subscribe to).  Lots of great stuff here: e.g.  Apples as appetizer, main course and dessert and Almond and Hazelnut cookies filled with Nutel

addyourown Vancouver needs your help!  It's been stuck at 30 odd restaurants for the longest time.  Please add your favourite restaurants (even if it's only 1 line).  No membership or registration  or previous experience required.

Let's try to get it to 100 by Christmas! I will add all the VanEats restaurants by Christmas; please help out if you can.