The 16th annual EAT! Vancouver Food + Cooking Festival is back for another year and we’re counting down with just two weeks to go. Events will run throughout the city between November 5 and 10. Attracting top culinary talent from around the world, this year’s event includes:
- EAT! Harvest – From Paris, France to Oregon, USA, and across our great nation, EAT! Harvest features 24 top chefs offering bites of canapés that embody their cuisine, as well as drinks and desserts. Location: Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel
- EAT! Pastry – In it’s second year, this event takes guests on a sweet journey and meet award-winning pastry chefs and chocolatiers from Vancouver and beyond, including guest chefs Brett Roy from Sweet Lollapalooza of Edmonton, and Patrice Demers from Patrice Patissier of Montreal. Your sweet tooth will definitely be satisfied. Each treat will be paired with Vancouver’s newest seasonal cocktails. Location: Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel
- EAT! Expert Classes – An educational opportunity to dig deeper with experts in a particular food topic with delicious bites to enjoy. Three out of five events are now sold out. Tickets are still available for:
- EAT! Dinner Series – One-of-a-kind culinary collaborations between a BC chef and a visiting chef from outside of the province. Note: Act fast as two out of ten events are already sold out! TIckets are still available for:
- Campagnolo hosts Los Angeles’ Neal Fraser from Redbird
- Cinara hosts Toronto’s Mitchell Bates from Grey Gardens and Winnipeg’s Mandel Hitzer from deer+almond
- Fable Kitchen hosts Alberta’s Steve Brochu from Chartier
- Burdock & Co. hosts Toronto’s Tyler Shedden from The Chase
- Cioppino’s hosts Montreal’s Antonio Park from Park Lavanderia
- MacKenzie Room hosts Toronto’s Dustin Gallagher from Peoples Eatery
- Mak n Ming hosts Edmonton’s Kelsey Johnson from Café Linnea
- Wildebeest hosts Portland’s Naomi Pomeroy from Beast
Charity Partner: Project CHEF Education Society
EAT! Vancouver has partnered up with Project CHEF Education Society, which is a not-for-profit society that offers experiential programs to teach children and families about healthy cooking and eating. With a purchase of a ticket to any EAT! Vancouver event, you are supporting Project CHEF. In 2017, $25,000 was donated to Project Chef through EAT! Vancouver enabling the charity to reach 556 children and 350 parent volunteers. This is important as times have changed and in our fast-paced lives knowledge of healthy eating and the associated skills are often not being transferred to the younger generation. Meals consisting of nutritionally lacking, highly processed foods are eaten on the run and rarely around a dinner table.
