Local Ink, Sommelier Sundays, Best Teen Chef Competition

MEDIA HOUND - THE LOCAL INK

Nancy Lanthier has once again kindly updated the links to this week's food columns in the local Vancouver press, so there's lots of good reading to enjoy after the Thanksgiving turkey dinner renders you immobile.

It's too bad though that the North Shore News didn't make Deana Lancaster's article available on their website. It sounds like her encounter with a restaurateur who commented on her paper's reviewing style (without realizing who she was, of course), must have been amusing. Anyone know where one can get a copy of the NSN on the other side of the bridge?

Update: North Shore News has now uploaded Deana's story. Thanks to Andrew Morrison for finding the new post."
Here it is. - All India Brings More Flavour to West Van.


For a dose of hilarious, be sure to check out Mark Laba's review of Italian Kitchen in this week's Province. He loved the food, but it's Laba's unique (called it humble meatball) perspective on our city's style-conscious restaurant scene that really puts the kick in the tomato sauce.

To quote: The furnishings have that '70s rec-room styling, spiffed up as if Hugh Hefner were dropping over for a visit. It makes sense, considering the bold and beautiful hormonal pool present, complete with breast implants and six-packs you could hammer nails with. ...
A second floor houses a second bar with swanky white furnishings and glimmers like a night in Rome with Gina Lollobrigida... Peaches and I took seats at the 18-metre-long white marble bar and watched the two women beside us take cellphone photos of each other posing with their heirloom tomato salads..."

It's all filed here in the Media Section.

TODAY'S PRESS RELEASES


SALT TASTING ROOM LAUNCHES OCTOBER-LONG "SOMMELIER SUNDAYS"
(Directly from the press release.)

(Vancouver BC) Fancy yourself as someone with a keen palate for wine? Ever thought that given the opportunity, you could put together a decent restaurant wine list?

Well, here’s your chance!

Gastown’s Salt Tasting Room, Vancouver’s artisan cheese and charcuterie hotspot, is inviting local wine enthusiasts to take part in a unique new weekly event scheduled to run throughout October -- “Sommelier Sundays�!

Guests eating and drinking at Salt Tasting Room between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Sundays throughout October will have the opportunity to sample the new and exciting wines that are under consideration for Salt's critically-acclaimed wine list.

Call it “Who Wants To Be A Sommelier?�, call it “Wine Idol�, Salt calls it “Sommelier Sundays�. Let Salt put you in the Wine Director’s chair and enjoy the opportunity to sample new products, fill out a ballot with your opinions (which also enters you into a Salt Gift Certificate draw), and possibly see your favourite new wine show up on Salt’s wine list! All guests purchasing food and drink at Salt from 6 p.m - 9 p.m. each Sunday in October are invited to take part.

Great friends, great food, and great wine. Isn’t that what Sundays are about?

Salt Tasting Room is an artisanal cheese and charcuterie tasting room situated in historic Gastown, Vancouver, BC. Salt features dozens of unique wines by the glass, the most diverse sherry list in the city, a knowledgeable staff, and a fun, comfortable atmosphere. Open from Noon to Midnight, 7 days a week.

Salt Tasting Room
Blood Alley, Gastown
Vancouver, BC
604-633-1912


Filed in DAILY NEWS/ Press Releases.

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Do you have a baby Jamie Oliver in your kitchen like this one? (Blimey, give that young crumpet a few years and it won't be the onions making the girls cry.) Then get him (or her) enrolled in the Art Institute's Best Teen Chef contest.





WHO'S GOT IT - THE BUZZ METER For - October 5 , 2007

(The most requested information on the site as measured
by Google keyword counter)




PEOPLE:

PLACES:

1) Transcontinental - Restaurant, Gastown, North Vancouver,
2) Italian Kitchen - Restaurant, Downtown, Vancouver
3) Boneta - Restaurant, Gastown, Vancouver
4) Brown's Social Club - Restaurant, Yaletown, Victoria
5) Dadeo - Restaurant, Cambie St, Vancouver
6) le amis du Fromage - Cheese store, West Side, Vancouver/Park Royal, West Vancouver
7) Pala Lago - Restaurant, Cultus Lake
8) Lumiere - Restaurant, Vancouver
9) Salt Tasting Room - Restaurant, Gastown, Vancouver
10) Shashuka - Restaurant, East Side, Vancouver

THINGS:

1) Polyester Palate.com
2) BC mushroom identification
3) Red Belly Black Shiraz
4) cheese and wine classes
5) Chef Meets Grape


MOST INEXPLICABLE CONNECTION:

sneaky media tricks

NUMBER OF COUNTRIES LOGGING IN: 129
NUMBER OF CITIES WORLDWIDE (visiting over the entire month): 84. Number 84 was Oakland, California.