EAT! Vancouver 2013
EAT! Vancouver will be filling BC Place Stadium with foodies, chefs, culinary experts, consumers from Friday, May 24th to Sunday, May 26th. Features of Canada’s largest consumer food, beverage and cooking festival include spotlights on local restaurants, celebrity guests, wine and beer, cooking classes, and more.
Festival Features
- Food Network Celebrity Stage: Catch Chuck Hughes (Food Network Celebrity Chef), Rob Feenie (Executive Chef, Cactus Club Restaurants), Bal Arneson (The Spice Goddess), and Anna Olson (Food Network Host).
- Bites of Vancouver: Sample bites from some of Vancouver’s top restaurants all under one roof.
- World Culinary Travel Expo: Talk, taste and learn about exciting international culinary destinations and cuisines from travel experts and representatives.
- International Culinary Stage: Showcasing talent from Canada and around the world featuring regional cuisine, hospitality and beverages.
- Culinary Classes: Get hands-on in the kitchen with Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts Chef Instructors.
- Wine, Beer & Spirits Tasting Pavilion: Sip some of the best wines, beers, and spirits from around BC.
- Grapes & Hops Stage: Two of the most popular ingredients in Vancouver! Sit in on an impressive line-up of seminars, tastings, and food pairing sessions.
- Cheese Seminars presented by The Dairy Farmers of Canada: Cheese experts from The Dairy Farmers of Canada will present a series of seminars on everything to do with cheese.
Hours
EAT! Vancouver will be open from 2:00pm to 9:00pm on Friday, May 24th; 10:00am to 9:00pm on Saturday, May 25th; 10:00am to 5:00pm on Sunday, May 26th.
Tickets
Tickets are available online and at BC Place’s Gate A box office. Online tickets are $14 ($16 at the gate) for adults and seniors, $9 for youth, and children (12 and under, accompanied by adults) are free. Prices include taxes. With your ticket you get same-day re-entry with a handstamp and tickets are valid for a full day of entertainment.
Many samples are handed out for free from vendors but if you would like to increase your sample sizes, you can purchase Bite/Taste tickets which are $10 for 20 or $5 for 10 (cash only, ATMs are on site).
Contest
EAT! Vancouver has offered up a unique prize pack for one lucky Miss604 reader so that they can enjoy the best of the festival that includes:
- Family pack of tickets (4)
- Voucher for VIP seating (for 4) to any seminar on the Grapes & Hops Stage (winner’s choice)
- A copy of Rob Feenie’s Casual Classics cookbook and a copy of Weber Canada’s Real New Grilling cookbook
- A beer t-shirt, a wine aerator courtesy of Anna Olson, and a salt & pepper grinder from Mott’s Clamato
Here’s how you can enter to win this prize pack:
Leave a comment here naming a favourite dish that you like to cook at home (1 entry)
Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I will draw one winner at random from all entries (must be 19+ to enter) at 12:00pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013. Follow EAT! Vancouver on Facebook and Twitter for all pertinent festival info and updates.
Update The winner is Scott Podwinski!
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Would love to see what EAT! has for vegetarian/vegan foods!
One of the my fav dishes to make, in the summer at home is Ribs on the BBQ, cous cous salad (I make theee best) and homemade yam fries with a delicious summer cocktail!
Paella
I love cooking pork tenderloin and roasted corn.
I love cooking at home with my boyfriend and we try to do at least one or two new recipes a week. My current favourite meal to cook is a typical boys meal: steak, potatoes and veggies, however we have fun with it by adding wine or some sort of alcohol to the marinades we use!
We love spicy so any Mexican dish would be the choice.
Halibut is a favourite Cooked a number of ways including on the grill.
~Ann
Smoked sausages!
Roasted rosemary and garlic hhickwn for sure!
I love to make lasagna at home! It usually involves the whole family 🙂
Guacamole
I love roasted brussel sprout pizza with chevre.
Pesto Linguine
Tunisian Sandwich /friccassee
I love cooking so many dishes, but a favourite would be pan seared duck breast with crispy skin on creamy polenta with morel sauce.
I love to bake bread and am currently on a sourdough kick.
A delicious juicy steak !!
I love cooking baked seafood pasta! MMM
I love to cook salmon of many different flavours
I love cooking pastas. My latest fave is linguini with chicken and spinach in a sundried tomato Alfredo sauce.
Fave dish I like to cook at home is fried rice – super easy and so flavourful!
Homemade pizzas
any type of pasta dish
I love cooking vegetable soups.
Dessert with dark chocolate
Mac and cheese!
Eat Vancouver is always a fun time!
pasta! 🙂
My favourite dish to cook is one I invented in high school, a veggie stirfry with an avocado cheese sauce. It’s tasty, but it looks disgusting.
Spaghetti with smoked sausages
Lasagna!
pumpkin ravioli
We’ve recently discovered Pad Thai… can eat that for every meal!
Cioppino, a seafood stew with muscles, any firm fish (like halibut), clams, prawns, & scallops, or any other seafood you can think of…. SO GOOD
Mexican spiced pulled pork with homemade coke bbq sauce
pizza with lots of toppings and a thick dough is what I love to cook at home for my family…
Hmm…sooo many….i’d say a good indian curry of a sort would be good to learn.
Mussels with white wine and bacon. 🙂
I love making pulled pork! 🙂
moussaka
Bbq’ed Salmon!
Blood Sausage
making chicken pot pie
I would love to make ratatouille!
I love making lasagna with lots of beef and cheese, probably not that great for you, but boy is it good!
Sauteed zucchini coins over brown rice, all covered by cilarntro pesto. Yum!
Roast turkey!
Sushi!
Grilled salmon and spinach!
BBQ Ribs
I love making Stir Fry and Palak Paneer (Spinach + Cottage Cheese)
I love making casseroles!
Anything with kale- mmmmmm
\I love making butter chicken
chicken Parmesan
Minced pork lettuce wrap
I love to make anything Indian, especially Chana Masala
Musaka
pizza
Pizza!
spaghetti!
My favourite dish is one of the only dishes I know how to cook: cioppino!
I love to cook pad thai at home 🙂
My fiancee makes this delicious beet salad with goat cheese. I could eat that all day long!
Spaghetti, or anything on the BBQ!
Favourite dish to cook at home is Korean BBQ lettuce wraps! COMPLETE with potato side dish.
Dijon pork chops!
barbeque pork ribs. love to go to the fest
BBQ Ribs
Thai curries. YUM!
My favorite is pasta
Garlic Shrimp.
Rice noodle salad rolls with veggies, peanut sauce, and smoked tofu.
Spaghetti and meatballs!!
stirfry dishes
I love making curried okra- so good!
Pork ribs.
Rotisserie chicken on the bbq! Yum!
Braised ox tongue
Creamy mac and cheese!!! NOMONOMONOM
Butter Chicken is my specialty.
Pork tenderloin with roasted potatoes!
Thanks for the contest again! I love to grill steak and veggies and make tomato sauce pasta.
We love to cook lots of different types of seafood. One of our favourite dishes to make are salmon cakes. I love to win tickets to Eat Vancouver!
Favorite dish is steamed squid with veggies on the side!
Pasta – quick, easy and delicious!
My fave dish to make is parmesan chicken and roasted garlic and rosemary potatoes.
Chicken curry!
Vegetarian tortilla soup, so yummy! http://allrecipes.com/recipe/vegetarian-tortilla-soup/
I’d love to go!
Chili green beans and chicken stir fry!
Actually I just make crusted honey dijon mustard sockeye salmon fillets. Mmmmmm
i love to make stuffed porkchops and garlic mashed potatoes…the best you ever had!!!
Vietnamese Fish Curry…so good!
I love cooking stew…especially in the slow cooker. The aroma permeates the house all day and makes everyone really look forward to dinnertime!
all kinds of pastas, and soups
green curry chicken
We love to cook “arroz al horno”, a dish made in a GIANT ceramic dish in the oven. It is similar to paella, except that it is baked. It is full of rice, garlic, chick peas, onion, chicken, and saffron, and covered with a thick layer of tomatoes and crispy chorizo. Then you squeeze lemon juice on top right before eating. My used-to-be-almost-mother-in-law in Valencia, Spain taught me how to make it, and I have tweaked it since (for example, by adding artichokes and taking out a vast amount of olive oil!) It’s fantastic, and always feeds a crowd very successfully!
Made one of my favorites tonight, Thai curry!
I think my best dish is Lasagna Bolognese.
i love making macaroni and cheese
Love cooking everthing! Especially prosciutto wrapped chicken with pesto sauce
Tuna salad!
I like to cook home made Mac & cheese.
I like to try new recipes all the time!! But I do enjoy a good Butter Chicken:o)
Fav dish to make baked salmon with herbs mmmmm
Love cooking curry…mmmmmm!
I love making salmon in the oven!
Spaghetti is One of my many comfort foods but I love to make the tomato sauce and add lots of chunky vegetables to the beef for a very hearty meal.
I love to go to the Farmers Market, get amazing salad greens, saute some local veggies and serve with pasta and steamed prawns
I love to cook chili at home. It is one of my comfort foods.
My fave dish to make at home is mystery leftover and veggies – it’s easy to have a recipe and get items from a store but more difficult and time consuming (sometimes) to jazz up leftovers plus use perishable items in the fridge — ps cheese helps
My favorite dish to make at home is pasta with my mom. She makes the dough and I get to roll it out!!
My daughter just tried to enter us above missing the 19+ part so I will enter us!
My favorite dish to make is pasta with my daughter…it’s a mess but well worth it watching her
Create something with her hands! I’m in charge of the dough,she rolls it out and grandma picks the garnish.
Delish!
pasta!
My fave dish is baked salmon with mayo and dill!
Thai
Love cooking spring salad with asparagus, snap peas, and snow peas with a poached egg and lemon zest vinaigrette – perfect for summer!
I like cooking Spaghetti Carbonara.
Beef thai salad 🙂
luv making chkn thai salad! hot spicy chkn with cool cucumber & tomato salad nice on a hot day
steak on the bbq – with sauteed mushrooms and baked potatoes
baked chicken – simple and great for leftover lunches
I am the cook in the family so I like it when I don’t have to cook 🙂
When I do it is mostly Indian food – rice, roti, lentils, & vegetarian curry.
I love to cook weiner schnitzel!
Wonton Soup! I even make my own wontons! 🙂
I love to cook Ramen.. adding lots of side ingredients.
no butter butter chicken!
i love to make homemade sourdough..nothing like warm bread with butter
Sushi!
Indian food.
Julia Childs’ version of boeuf bourguignon…
One of my fave dishes is shepherd’s pie! Yum!
I love pasta, seafood, meat, meatless, it’s all yumola 🙂 Thanks for the contest!
butter chicken
I like to make beef short ribs with Korean sauce.
pork lettuce wraps!
Does cereal count? 😛 If not, then I can cook pretty good miso soup, or something that kinda resembles it.
a good red curry!
Veggie stir-fry
veggie stir fry
I love to make my own hummus.
I like making sausage risotto at home 🙂
curry chicken
curries
butter chicken
Chicken fajitas
I like to make butternut squash soup
My favourite dish to cook at home is thai green curry!
I like cooking and trying out lots of different things, but I make eggs basted with bacon fat almost everyday. I tried it with duck fat recently and that’s pretty great too.
I would love to make Creme Brulee
Mmmmm… butter chicken.
I’m not that skilled in the kitchen…but my BBQ’d chicken with roasted potatoes is the best 🙂
Curried chicken with coconut milk.
Rainbow trout. Delicious !!
fresh mango pudding
BBQ chicken is a summertime favourite
I love making risotto and vegetarian lasagna!
I love making focaccia bread!
Kung Pao Chicken!
hummus
mushroom risotto
My favourite thing to make in the summer is watermelon salad.
I like to make stir fried udon with vegetables and chicken!
Tomato Basil Pappardelle
smoothie, so quick and yummy
Quinoa Salad!
grilled cheese
I am not much of a cook, but I love to try every now and then. My favourite to make is grilled turkey cheese-stuffed tortellini! Mmm!
My favourite dish to cook at home is Maryland Fried Chicken. It is simply delicious! I have attended Eat Vancouver many times and always find it a fun and interesting day. It’s best to go early in the day because it gets really crowded by noon. There’s always something new to try and many new products to purchase.
Mmmm shepherds pie!
Love to cook tacos/ burritos! Its a quick and easy staple meal that we can switch up the ingredients to make unique dish every time!
I know this sounds easy to make, but I would like to cook macaroni and cheese
Pasta, any. I tweeted also 🙂
spaghetti
Potato Cauliflower Curry
PF Chang’s copycat Lettuce Wraps
gotta be my faveorite dish since i was a kid
4 cheese lasagna mmmm mmm good…
Simple, but succulent, roast chicken.
I’m not the chef of the house, but when I do go to work in our kitchen, my fail-safe is shepherds pie!
I only trust myself with salad. lol but it is delicious salad!
Roasted chestnuts
Steak
i like to cook grilled cheese and scrambled egg sandwiches with bacon and herbs
When I have the time, Red Wine Braised Beef.
breakfast eggs, bacon, sausage and hash browns
Quinoa or whole wheat pasta makes for simple and quick dishes that take on the flavours of whatever you decide to cook them with! Its also a nice way to slip a vegetarian meal in every so often without having to miss meat too badly. Tried pulled pork a few times, but it’s just not the same without a smoker.
I love making butter chicken
I can’t cook much but I’m good at breakfast! Any kind, cereal.. Toast oh and boxed pancake mix or eggs
I like trying to make new things all the time, but a quick healthy and delicious meal in our house made weekly is Mexican! Fajitas, tacos, taco salad, some not so healthy things like nachos!!!
I love cooking thai food. Any dish!
I love making vegetarian french onion soup!
I like to make Spaghetti
Homemade pizza with lots of seasonal veggie toppings, YUM!
spaghetti baked with cheese
Mac and cheese. But not the KD kind
Steak! on the BBQ
Curries
Vancouver Olive Oil Company!