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EAT! Vancouver: The ultimate food & cooking festival
If you are a foodie and in Vancouver from June 10 - 12, 2011, you should plan on spending a day (or three) at the ultimate food expo, EAT! Vancouver.
Celebrity chefs, popular local restaurants, wineries, food and beverage manufacturers, cookbook authors, retailers, artisans and many others from the culinary world will come together for a three day public extravaganza at the new Vancouver Convention Centre.
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Highlights from the EAT! Vancouver website:
Come for lunch and stay for dinner at EAT! Vancouver's Bite of Vancouver restaurant pavilion. The chefs of favourite Lower Mainland restaurants will serve up appetizer-sized portions of their signature recipes. For a nominal charge ($1 - $2.50) per item you will be able to savour the flavours of numerous eateries.
Beer, wine and spirits will be well represented in the Tasting Pavilion where you can sip and taste hundreds of different beverages. Hosted by Daenna Van Mulligen, Vancouver’s Wine Diva, the Grapes and Hops Stage will feature presentations and tastings of numerous local and regional beers and wines conducted by a variety of industry experts. In addition, Mott's Clamato Juice will be conducting their Mott's Caesar School, where you can learn how to make the perfect Caesar.
While at EAT! Vancouver, you will also enjoy shopping in the marketplace of over 250 exhibit booths. Producers, manufacturers, retailers and food artisans will showcase a wide assortment of unique products for eating, drinking, cooking, entertaining and outfitting a kitchen. Exhibits will include everything from gourmet foods to kitchen accessories.
While visiting EAT! Vancouver, you will...
- Discover new food, beverage products and cooking ingredients
- Taste hundreds of food and beverage from hundreds of exhibitors
- Shop and buy hard to find food and cooking-related products
- Learn new methods of cooking from the experts
- Watch Food Network celebrity chefs showcase their talents on stage
- Learn about cuisines of foreign lands in the World Culinary Tourism Expo
- Enjoy tasting the offerings of restaurants, wineries and breweries
- Find new foods and treats for your pets in the Pets EAT! Too Pavilion
- Make your own healthy choices in the Wellness Pavilion
- Discover an appreciation for cheese at Dairy Farmer’s Cheese Seminars
- Talk with food producers, growers, vintners and brewers
- Improve your wine and beer knowledge in Grapes & Hops Seminar area
EAT! Vancouver takes place on Friday, June 10th, 2011 from 2 pm to 9pm; Saturday, June 11th, 2011 from 10 am - 9 pm and Sunday, June 12th, 2011 from 10 am to 5 pm at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
- Photo credit: Cassandra Anderton
