My hometown – Vancouver – has an awesome winter Dine Out Festival that I blogged about earlier this week. But cities all across North America are hosting restaurant weeks, dining festivals, even an entire Restaurant Month (in California) during these dark winter nights. Most follow a similar format – good-value, fixed-price menus that introduce you […]
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WanderFood Wednesday: Dine Out Vancouver is Three Weeks of Food Fun
Creamy edamame soup topped with sake-infused sausage and drizzled with shiso oil. Refreshing tofu salad garnished with crispy lotus roots and a bright citrus dressing. Spicy ling cod perched atop a meltingly tender poached daikon slice, served with vegetable fritters and painted with a brushstroke of pureed nori. With dishes like these (from upscale izakaya […]
WanderFood Wednesday: The New Year’s Pig
I’m really not as obsessed with pork as some recent WanderFood posts might suggest (like here and here). Still, I can’t think about New Year’s Eve without remembering a particular holiday porkfest – when my husband decided to ring in the New Year by roasting a whole pig. I’ve told this story often, but if […]