Gem City Guide Vancouver

04/25/2023

The Vancouver International Wine Festival is on this week from the 22nd through to the 31st. Don’t miss this event if you have any interest in wine. Tickets are still available to many events including the big room with over 800 wines from Thursday night to Saturday night. Featuring wines from South America this year. Just do a search in your browser for viwf and you will find the main site. See you at the tasting!

06/11/2022

On the patio with Bottega Rosé Gold on National Rosé Day. Delicious Pinot Nero Spumante Brut Rosé.

08/26/2021

Chef David Hawksworth’s second iteration Nightingale Restaurant Vancouver, Nightingales restaurant is fine dining of the approachable sort, service friendly and attentive, the wine list stacked, interesting and affordable

08/23/2021

It was 1890. The Dias family patriarch planted his first coffee beans, built a plantation high in the hills in Brazil’s Mogiana Valley, based on sustainable and ecological principles, and what is now the family farm has run that way to this very day.  The entire farm is self-sustaining, with its ...

08/19/2021

What Andres Faustinelli does not know about whisky is almost not worth knowing. Over dinner at Per Se Social Corner, he regales the table with animated tales of how many trials it took to arrive at his wonderful new whisky, the Bearface One Eleven Oaxaca Release. First came Bearface itself, aged sev...

08/18/2021

At Hawksworth, fine dining in Vancouver is alive and very well. Since opening to virtually instant acclaim in 2011, Chef David Hawksworth and his A-list team have subtly gone about their chosen business, of proffering the finest ingredients, almost all local, prepared in imaginative and visually arr...

03/18/2020

Dear Urbanity Publishing Customers,

With great regret and a heavy heart, we have made the difficult decision to cancel our 2020 print publications for Gem City Guide due to the current coronavirus pandemic. We are living in unprecedented times, and the effect on the hospitality industry, small business and workers in these businesses is truly devasting.
This will come to an end and eventually things will get back to normal. It may be a new normal, but things will stabilize, and life will go on. We look forward to breathing life back into the Gem City Guide print edition in 2021.
In the interim, why not take a moment to explore our new digital lifestyle magazine with a focus on distilled products at InsideSpirits.ca or check out our digital version of Gem City Guide at our website gemcityguide.com.
We wish you all the best in these trying times and encourage everyone to find ways to support each other and take care of yourselves.

Mark Taylor
Publisher

Note:
For those advertisers who have already purchased space for Gem City Guide 2020/2021 due to publish in Spring 2020, you will receive a full refund of your purchase immediately.

03/01/2020

Rosé and food grazing, Vancouver style.

02/29/2020

Lost in the crowd

02/29/2020

02/29/2020

Not a bad way to spend an evening. With at and 12 principles from 12

02/28/2020

Blind tasting France @ Vancouver Convention Centre