Hot Chocolate Festival (now until February 14, various venues)
Check out the 4th Annual Hot Chocolate Festival and taste your way around the city, sampling 60 different chocolate-y creations courtesy of top cafes, bakeries and chocolatiers. Drink up and know you’re sipping for a cause, because this festival benefits the Downtown Eastside Women’s Job Training Program of the PHS Community Services Society and East Van Roasters. Learn more and enter to win up to $500 in gift certificates here.
Street Food City 3 (until January 26, North Plaza, Vancouver Art Gallery)
Be sure to catch the third year of Street Food City, the original street food gathering, and sample more than a dozen tasty food truck offerings all in one central location at The Vancouver Art Gallery (off West Georgia Street). Always a huge success, expect plenty of vendors on hand cooking up a storm. Score a seat, take in live music and enjoy a festive mid-winter outdoor feast. Well over 15 of Vancouver’s food truck vendors will be on site and it’s free entry. On Friday through Sunday from 11am until 5pm. Click here for more info.
Recently Opened: Miura Waffle Milk Bar (2521 Main Street)
Adventurous foodies on the hunt for something savoury, sweet and definitely different need to make their way to this new spot that’s taken the waffle world by storm. Family owned and operated, this unique dining destination offers a variety of sweet waffle ‘sandos’ worth biting into, alongside flavoured yoggy milks and milkshakes. Guaranteed to give the traditional ‘Chicken & Waffles’ a run for the money. Learn more here.
4th Annual Scotiabank Vancouver Canadians Hot Stove Luncheon (January 24, Fairmont Hotel Vancouver)
Join hundreds of others and show your support (with special sporting celebrities, Toronto Blue Jays players and more) at this annual fundraiser luncheon. It’s gloves off and time to dig into a succulent feast and silent auction with proceeds benefitting the many local initiatives (including the operation of our Vancouver Canadians Baseball League). Learn more about this worthy event and fundraiser and purchase a $75 ticket here.
GRIT: Scenes of South East Asia (January 24 at 14 West 7th Avenue)
Head to Photohaus Gallery and take in the opening reception of ‘GRIT’ Scenes of South East Asia by recent winner of The Capture Photography Festival and Georgia Straight’s People’s Choice Award, Christopher Edmonstone. As Edmonstone’s first solo exhibit, the work features award-winning images and others from his collective body of work guaranteed to wow. Opening reception starts at 7pm and goes late; show will run until February 7th. For details, click here.
Go: Taste the World (January 28th, Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver)
Do not miss this stellar annual event that takes over the Four Seasons Hotel with serious wine-fuelled style. Tickets are selling fast for this unique fundraiser hosted by the Canadian Friends of Medical Action Myanmar and Angkor Hospital for Children. Featuring a superb silent auction, fine bites from top-notch Vancouver restaurants, a wine tasting, entertainment and more, it’s the 5th anniversary to boot. All the more reason to dish out $75, don that LBD and go. For more info, click here.
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Top photo courtesy Miura Waffle Milk Bar