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Exploring Main Street through Tasting Plates Vancouver

Posted in Culinary Events, Dinner, Food Bloggers, Joyce, News, Tasting Plates, Tea, Vancouver, tagged Bagel, food tour, Honey, Main Street, Main Street Honey Shoppe, Miura Waffle Milk Bar, Pizza, Rocky Mountain Flatbread Co, Rosemary Rocksalt, ShakTea, Tapas, Tapas23, Tasting Plates Main Street, Tasting Plates Vancouver, Tasting Plates YVR on May 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Main Street has recently established itself as one of the foodie destinations. So when I received the invite to the Tasting Plates Main Street edition, I was quite happy and excited to accept it. Also glad to have LW join me at this event.

At this event we checked out the following restaurants. Some I’m familiar with, some are new to me. We were quite proud that this time around we managed to visit every one of them (in Gastown we actually missed one stop because we ran out of time).

Tapas23
Rocky Mountain Flatbread Co
Main Street Honey Shoppe
Shaktea
Rosemary Rocksalt
Miura Waffle Milk Bar

Once again I’ve used Storify to build my story using my Twitter coverage from the event along with additional comment at each stop. Click on the image or link below to check it out. Find out what I liked and what I didn’t like on this tour:

Tasting Plates Main Street on Storify

Tasting Plates Main Street Recap on Storify

Tasting Plates is a good way to explore new and long-standing restaurants in the neighbourhoods. Check out TastingPlatesYVR.com for upcoming events.

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Kamei Baru Grand Opening

Posted in By Invitations, Dessert, Drinks, Japanese, Joyce, Media Events, Restaurants, Seafood, Snacks, Tapas, Vancouver, Wine Pairing, tagged Japanese Taiko, kagami biraki, Kamei Baru, Kamei Group, Sake, sushi, Tapas on July 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »

A couple of weeks ago, I went to the grand opening of the latest member of the Kamei Group – Kamei Baru. It took the space that was once Ensemble Tap near the Scotiabank Theatre. Since then it has changed hands a few times and it’s now part of the Kamei family.

Kamei Baru Opening

Similar to Chinese celebrations, Japanese also has their version of lion dance. The ceremony officially kicked off with the Japanese lion dance accompanied by Japanese Taiko performance:

Kamei Baru runs on the concept of a Japanese tapa bar. In contrast to izakaya restaurants, the dishes at Kamei Baru has more of an European influence. Throughout the evening, we got to sample a number of items that are on their menu, which included marinated pork loin, tuna taco, paella, fresh oysters and sushi. (more…)