![]() ![]() Happening March 16, the fifth annual family-style feast at the Gastown restaurant honours a Tuscan tradition that dates back centuries, originating from a time when members of the nobility offered polenta to hungry townspeople to help fight a famine that was sweeping through the region. “I think it’s a fun way to keep things fresh and the kitchen brigade get to make things not normally on the menu.” Wine director Joshua Carlson will make recommendations for each dish, and he may pull out a special bottle or two to accompany the surprises. “There’s no set order to what dishes we will make, how often they’ll be presented or how many will be available each day,” Quaglia says in a release. There may be ratatouille, salade Niçoise, tartare de boeuf, coq au vin, thon (tuna) aux olives, vol au vent au lapin (rabbit), or quiche-or not. The options might be o s à moelle (roasted bone marrow) and canard (duck) confit one day or soupe aux oignons and daube de boeuf (Provençal beef stew) the next. ![]() Each morning, the culinary artist and his team will make a limited number of dishes from a rotating assortment of French favourites, depending on availability of ingredients and what happens to be inspiring them on any given day. Provence Marinaside chef Jean-Francis Quaglia found himself craving classic bistro dishes from his native France, so he decided to share them with local diners in Quelle Surprise, a two-course prix-fixe menu running March 15 to April 15. Just like French fashion, comfort food never goes out of style. “Frankies” range from grilled lamb kebab to chicken tikka also available are Indo-Szechuan fried chicken sandwich, butter chicken poutine, piri-piri fries, and more. Soft-launching on March 8 outside of Port Moody’s Brave Street Brewing, the food truck features menu items inspired by Mumbai street eats, its namesake referring to a roti wrap or “Mumbai burrito”. Tondvalkar has gone on to launch a private catering company under his own name, which offers a canape menu, tasting menu, pop-up dinners, and cocktails and full bar service, enlisting chef and fellow Mumbai native Tushar Kaldalgaokar and mixologist Prem Shetty. Both of those ventures are flourishing, with the expansion of retail products nationwide. He was also keeping busy with Urban Tadka alongside partner Evan Elman, specializing in Awadhi cuisine, or “royal” cuisine, with ready-to-go curries. When Stir first connected with Mumbai-born and -raised Vancouver-based chef Tushar Tondvalkar, in the fall of 2020, he had just launched The Indian Pantry, making a line of small-batch freshly roasted spices, simmering sauces, and condiments that reflect the cuisine of the historic region of northern India. For every afternoon tea sold, Fairmont Hotel Vancouver will plant one tree in B.C. There are kids’ and vegetarian menus a to-go version an extensive selection of Lot 35 teas and a collection of sakura-themed cocktails (like Picnic In Yoyogi: pear cider, white tea vermouth, sake, sparkling wine, and herbs). Then there are black sesame cookies, Japanese cotton cheesecake with fresh berries, sakura Black Forest chocolate cake with cherry-blossom Chantilly and Amarena cherries, cherry mascarpone verrine (with orange pound cake, meringue kisses, and cherry gel), and matcha profiteroles stuffed with lemon-scented green-tea custard cream. In addition to the restaurant’s renowned scones (in two flavours: classic buttermilk and cherry-and-white-chocolate) with fluffy Chantilly cream and fresh fruit preserves, chef Danai Hongwanishkul’s menu includes curry puff with minced lentil keema, mushroom teriyaki sliders, albacore tuna tataki atop daikon with ponzu aioli and dashi gelee, konbini-style egg-salad sandwich on milk bread with kewpie mayonnaise and salmon roe, and sakura pork katsu on brioche with ume miso and cabbage. ![]() With three sittings daily Thursdays through Sundays, the tea service features a tiered platter of savoury and sweet bites, the tray adorned with a puffy pink cloud of cotton candy that tops a chocolate tree trunk. The dedicated tea room in historic Fairmont Hotel Vancouver’s Notch8 dining room is bursting with the prettiest of pink blossoms in celebration of sakura season. ![]()
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