CHEF FOR A DAY – FALL & WINTER DATES RELEASED – PLUS NEW LOWER PRICE!
Have you ever wondered what the life of a chef is like? Here’s your chance – and now at a new lower price!
With Edible BC’s popular Chef for a Day program you can enjoy a day learning the secrets and tricks of the trade from one of Vancouver’s top chef talents. Brian Fowke is the former Chef/Owner of Vancouver lauded Rare and Metro Restaurants, and is now working his culinary magic at Mon Bella Bistoria.
You will start out by meeting Chef Fowke at Granville Island Public Market, the heart of our culinary city, where you will plan your seasonal, local menu together as a group (maximum of 8 people per class). You will learn the ins and outs of buying market fresh – chef style – and pick up everything you need for the day’s menu.
Once the ingredients have been gathered, you’ll head to nearby Mon Bella Bistoria for an interactive cooking lesson in a professional working kitchen. Chef Fowke will lead you and the group in the preparation of a multicourse meal together, using the ingredients you’ve just purchased at the market. After the meal has been prepared, you will sit down to enjoy the meal together as a group – family style – and discuss what you learned while enjoying a couple of glasses of fantastic BC wine.
Fall/Winter 2009 Dates:
- September 19
- October 10
- November 14
- December 12
Winter/Spring 2010 Dates:
- January 16
- March 13
- April 10
- May 15
- June 12
*Not sure what date is best? EBC Gift Certificates are available*
Price: $150 per person, plus GST
Class Includes:
- Menu design based on the wishes of the group (8 people max.)
- 1.5 Hour shopping trip with Chef Brian Fowke at Granville Island Public Market (including tasting samples)
- A hands-on cooking class in a working professional kitchen at Mon Bella Bistoria
- A multicourse lunch (which you will prepare with Chef Fowke) served at the restaurant, along with paired BC wine
Book online now or call us at 604.812.9660 to reserve your space and become a Chef for a Day.
NEW! GRANVILLE ISLAND SAMPLE & SHOP TOUR OPTION
People come to Granville Island for 2 main reasons – to eat and to shop.
Together with Vancouver’s Shopabout Tours, Edible BC has created a new tour that allows you to do both!
Sample & Shop Granville Island combines EBC’s incredibly popular Chef Guided Market Tour with Shopabout’s in-depth Granville Island Shopping Tour for an extensive five-hour sampling and shopping excursion!
Start at 9am, with one of EBC’s experienced chef guides as you sample your way through Granville Island’s freshest foods and insider secrets. At 11am, fuelled by your finds, join Shopabout’s Donita Dyer and explore the eclectic shops and artisans that cover the bustling Island. You’ll finish at 2pm, with a filled belly and shopping bag.
Sample & Shop Granville Island Tours are $80 per person, plus GST and available on weekends only starting September 12, 2009.
Look for the Sample & Shop Granville Island tour on the booking engine here.
NEW FAMILY FRIENDLY MARKET TOURS!
What better time to plant the seed about local, healthy, fresh food than childhood? At EBC, we’re excited and proud to be able to share Vancouver’s tastes and flavours with families of all ages.
Starting today, we’re offering private family market tours. Children’s needs and interests are unique, and with the private family tour, your chef guide will customize the itinerary based on your family’s desires. With a minimum of 2 adults at our regular fare, we welcome a maximum of 6 children up to 16 years of age at a rate of 25% off. Children 5 and under are free of charge. The tour follows the same basic outline as our public tours, but you have a chef guide all to yourself, and we can incorporate the children’s pace and interests in the tour.
We offer the following Market Tours:
Granville Island Public Market | $49 pp plus GST
Chinatown | $90 pp plus GST with dim sum,
$65 pp plus GST without dim sum
Commercial Drive | $65 pp plus GST
Tours Include:
- Edible BC recycled tote bag
- Tastings of regional foods
- Tips on food selection and preparation
- Recipes
- EBC bottled water
- 10% off coupon for Edible BC Retail Store
- Insights on local restaurant and culinary finds
*Note – As with all of our tours, Family Market Tours must be booked in advance and are subject to availability. Because of the special family rate, this tour cannot be booked online. Please email us to book a date or for more information.
WITH EDIBLE BC IT’S LOCALS NIGHT – EVERY NIGHT!
It’s our way of saying Thank You Vancouver!
Every evening throughout the summer locals will receive 10% off all purchases at the Edible BC Retail Store.
From 5-7pm, visit us for our Local’s Discount on any of our 700+ BC products. We are dedicated to showcasing the very best of what is being produced in our beautiful province by our many artisan producers. We pride ourselves on being a one-stop-shop for the best of BC. Our amazing retail staff are very knowledgeable about the products and their use, and also the producers behind them. Need a recipe idea for dinner that night? No problem! Want to try a sample first? You bet!
From Vij’s fresh-frozen dinners to Vista D’Oro’s Walnut Wine Jam and from Queen Charlotte Co-Op’s dried Rainforest Chantrelles to Mission Hill’s Oculus Cherries, we can help you create a complete meal. And if you need some inspiration at home, pick up a copy of our British Columbia Seasonal Cookbook, with dozens of recipes, each with full-colour photos, based on ingredients found in the Market.
Granville Island is the hub of our city’s vibrant culinary scene and where many of our city’s top chefs come to shop. With most of the 12 million annual visitors to the Island being locals, we wanted to say Thank You for your support of BC’s artisan producers.
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