Vancouver Spot Prawn Festival: five things you need to know about spot prawns

12 May, 2013

So, today was the much-heralded Chefs’ Table Society Spot Prawn festival down on Fishermen’s Wharf. In its seventh year more than 2000 sustainable seafood fans poured into False Creek...Read more...

In which I get all fan girl-ish about Organic Ocean’s Steve Johansen… and eat a LOT of Spot Prawns

10 May, 2013

If there was any kind of polite or non-insulting way to compare someone to ‘Moby Dick’ I would absolute declare that right now, I feel a little like Captain Ahab. For the past four...Read more...

Celebrating a BC Spot Prawn spring

8 May, 2013

I’ve never lived anywhere so ‘seasonal’ before; and I don’t just mean the weather, Vacouverites seem to live and breathe seasonality in their food. I noticed it first just...Read more...

My idea of happiness is... exploring a new city; finding the perfect place for a cocktail, an amazing spa with treatments that really work, a secret garden restaurant that only those in the know have heard of - and then sharing it with my readers. Why take a chance on somewhere that's only OK, when you can go somewhere fantastic?. I fell madly in love with Canada a few years back and totally lost my heart to Vancouver, but there's only one way to find out if it's the real thing or a crush... dive in headfirst and see what happens! Join me as I blog about my adventures with my move to Canada's most fabulous celeb-city...

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