Got your Easter dinner plans hopping into place yet? If not, there are lots of great Easter dinner meal kits designed to get your lips smacking while you stay safe with family or your bubble. Here at Miss604.com, we want you to support restaurants while we get through what we hope is the last wave of COVID-19, but to do it safely, so we can all enjoy the best of what Vancouver has to offer this summer.
And meal kits are such a great way to do that!
But don’t wait – reserve your kits quickly so your chosen eatery can accommodate you. This list is a great start, but don’t forget to check with your local favourites. And delivery is always a great choice too!
The Lazy Gourmet Easter. Photo by Jamie-Lee Fuoco
Easter Dinner Meal Kits and Take-Out
Note: Some options are take-and-cook and others are ready-to-eat. Most order cut-off dates are Wednesday, March 21st. Click through for full details from each venues.
Chicken or Ham? Have both! Monday the 29th is the last day for reserving Belgard Kitchen’s meal kit. For $80, two can enjoy a half-chicken roast, some honey-glazed ham, savoury bread pudding, herbed baby potatoes, and butterscotch panacotta. What’s great about Belgard’s kit is they provide a YouTube link for a video demo to help you cook your feast to perfection. Also available are wine and beer.
Be spoiled by choice – and yum! At Vancouver’s catering institution The Lazy Gourmet, a variety of choices await – like the amazing “Easter Grazing Box” for two ($95), because why cook when God made cheese, charcuterie and glorious carbs? Their set menu is $45 a person and includes a spring pea salad, garlicky-cheesy-herby bread knots, duck-fat potatoes, stuffed turkey breast, seared BC cod in an orange-basil sauce, roasted Brussels sprouts and honey-brown sugar carrots, with cupcakes to finish. But there’s also an Easter Dessert Box with bite-sized delights, like chocolate truffles. Need cocktails? A batch of grapefruit Paloma will help you imbibe your day away. Families with discerning children can order the “Easter Egg Hunt” with little plastic eggs crammed with carrot cake truffles (!), homemade mini-chocolates and meringues, even mixed caramels. Learn about their kits here.
Take some crispy French fries, the squeakiest of cheese curds, ladle on some sauce and top it all with a generous helping of supporting a great local cause because Poutine with Purpose is back!
Poutine for a Cause in Vancouver
When: April 23 to May 1, 2021 Where: Participating locations/restaurants
A youth in need provided a meal through Mealshare partners. Mealshare partners with restaurants across North America through a simple ‘buy one, give one’ model that provides simple, healthy meals to youth in need.
Local chefs are challenged to dream up and dish up a feature poutine for the week — from the traditional, to the creative, to the unusual.
Confirmed participants in Greater Vancouver so far…
Tap and Barrel (Convention Centre, Olympic Village, Shipyards)
The Park Pub (1755 Davie St, Vancouver)
Patina Brewing
Wok Box (Surrey, Abbostford and New West)
Poutine with Purpose started in 2010 as a one-day poutine crawl in Calgary created as a fun social media experiment by MRU instructor Karen Richards. The poutine passion grew into Calgary Poutine Week, and over time, has evolved into an annual food festival frenzy in Calgary, Victoria and in 2019 they launched in Vancouver. Poutine With Purpose events have sold over 35,000 poutines since 2013. Follow along on Facebook for updates.
I’ve been watching the emails trickle in day-by-day, slowly becoming a waterfall of communiques filled with photos incredibly delicious treats, chocolates, pastries and more. With my mouth watering and my finger ready to click the ‘order’ button online, I present my list of tempting Easter treats to try around Vancouver:
What: Four-inch milk or dark chocolate Easter egg with a smooth colourful shell, decorated with daisies, and filled with two signature truffles: Ruby Chocolate and Mango Passion Fruit. They also serve up the Velvet Chocolate egg with white and milk Easter chocolates inside, and a fruit and nut egg filled with caramelized nuts and dried fruits.
Spring Break might be coming to an end but the seasonal event lineup is just getting started. There is online programming (theatre, film, talks, cooking demos) along with in-person activities at local galleries and attractions and more things to do in Vancouver this weekend listed below:
Netflix and REEL CANADA are set to launch a short film series on National Canadian Film Day (“NCFD”), April 21, 2021. They have have joined forces to create a cinematic snapshot of the country as we emerge from the pandemic, engaging up-and-coming film talent to create eleven short films under the banner of Light(s) at the End of the Tunnel.
National Canadian Film Day
When: April 21, 2021
Where: Online
Tickets: Tune into a variety of online streaming sites. There will be great Canadian films on CBC, CBC Gem, Encore+, Netflix, Hollywood Suite, Crave, the NFB and the many others listed on the website.
The eleven Light(s) at the End of the Tunnel films, streaming on the NCFD website, run between one and six minutes and are created by fifteen young filmmakers identified as rising stars by a range of industry leaders.
The young filmmakers were selected by REEL CANADA staff and advisors, including board members Atom Egoyan and Veronica Tennant; Don McKellar; Ariel Smith (nēhiyaw); Tom McSorley (director of the Canadian Film Institute); and NFB animation producers Jelena Popović and Maral Mohammadian. Diverse both culturally and geographically, the film creators hail from Vancouver, Regina, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, and Pabineau First Nation (NB).
“Canadians from coast to coast have deeply felt the impacts of the last year in all areas of their lives,” said Stéphane Cardin, Director of Policy for Netflix Canada. “This initiative is giving a voice to a broad range of Canadian filmmakers during an important period in our country’s history and we look forward to sharing their stories with the world.”
The short films include animation (4), live action (5), and documentaries (2). Each project received $10,000 cash. Production equipment was generously contributed by William F. White International (and MELS for Quebec-based projects).
Light(s) at the End of the Tunnel: Film Lineup
5:1 Director: Sara Ben-Saud | documentary
7h59Director: Mattias Graham | documentary
DivinationDirectors: Simon “Paul M” Mutabazi & Dan Boos | live-action
Le givre de Bobby-YvesDirectors: Bogdan Anifrani & Ranee Inez | animation
I’ve Got Blisters on My FingersDirector: Ryan Steel | live-action
In bedrooms only Light will touch UsDirector: Alicia K. Harris | live-action
NamidDirectors: Victoria Anderson-Gardner & Sagi Kahane-Rapport | live-action / animation
On FireDirector: Dylan Glynn | animation
SARS-CoV-2Director: Andrew Huculiak | live-action
Shoot Your ShotDirectors: Madison Thomas & Meegwun Fairbrother | live-action
Tussle Director: Christopher Grant | animation
The Light(s) at the End of the Tunnel short film series will debut as part of National Canadian Film Day programming on the NCFD streaming platform. Follow along on Facebook and Twitter for more information about this year’s program.
