Fans of BC food and wine should plan to attend the fourth annual Chef meets Grape! The event brings quintessential BC cuisine together with new, fall releases from the Wines of British Columbia, with more than thirty-five BC VQA wineries represented.

BC’s red-hot culinary landscape is enhanced by BC’s many award-winning wines. The twelve restaurant chefs in this year’s event, renowned for their flair in pairing food with wines, will again compete at Chef meets Grape for both “Peoples Choice” and “Judges Choice” honours, as they create appetizer-sized portions of a dish using BC ingredients, paired with a selected BC VQA wine.  This year, enjoy BC VQA wines paired with wild BC seafood - including wild BC salmon, wild sablefish and albacore tuna. $5 from every ticket sold will support the Ocean Wise program, promoting sustainable seafood in our restaurants. Come to taste, sip, vote, mingle and enjoy an evening of great BC wine, food and fun!

Thursday, September 18, 2008
7 – 10pm
Rocky Mountaineer Station, 1755 Cottrell Street
(off Terminal Avenue, just before Home Depot). (See map)
Tickets: $75, with $5 from each ticket sold going to the Ocean Wise program at the Vancouver Aquarium. To purchase tickets, visit one of the following VQA Wine Stores:

Bellevue Wine Company: 1471 Bellevue Avenue, West Vancouver; 604-913-0802
Mud Bay Wines: 1227 56 Street, Tsawwassen, 604-948-2199
Sip Wines: Ironwood Plaza, 1030 - 11660 Steveston Hwy, Richmond; 604-271-9463
Taylorwood Wines: 1185 Mainland Street, Vancouver; 604-408-9463
Village VQA Wines – Dunbar: 3536 West 41st Avenue, Vancouver; 604-269-9433
Village VQA Wines – Edgemont: 3050 Edgemont Blvd, North Vancouver; 604-985-9463
Village VQA Wines – Kitsilano: 1811 West 1st Avenue, Vancouver; 604-732-8827

Tickets are also available online or by phone (with added service charges) through Tickets Tonight, or in-person at the Tourist Info Centre, 200 Burrard Street, Vancouver.

Antelope Ridge
Arrowleaf Cellars
Burrowing Owl Estate Winery
Calona Vineyards
CedarCreek Estate Winery
Church & State Wines
Crowsnest Vineyards
Desert Hills Estate Winery
First Estate Cellars
Ganton & Larsen Prospect Winery
Gehringer Brothers Estate Winery
Gray Monk Estate Winery
Hainle Vineyards & Deep Creek Wine Estate
Hester Creek Estate Winery
Inniskillin Okanagan Vineyards
Jackson-Triggs Okanagan Estate
Lake Breeze Vineyards
Little Straw Vineyards Estate Winery
Mission Hill Family Estate Winery
Nk’Mip Cellars
Noble Ridge Vineyard & Winery
Peller Estates
Red Rooster Winery
Road 13 Vineyards
Rollingdale Winery
Salt Spring Vineyards
Sandhill Wines
Saturna Island Family Estate Winery
See Ya Later Ranch
Sonoran Estate Winery
St Hubertus Estate Winery
Sumac Ridge Estate Winery
Summerhill Pyramid Winery
Thornhaven Estates Winery
Tinhorn Creek Vineyards
Township 7 Vineyards & Winery
Twisted Tree Vineyards & Winery
Wild Goose Vineyards

Bin 941& Bin 942: 941 Davie Street, Vancouver; 604-683-1246 & 1521 W. Broadway, Vancouver; 604-734-9421
Coast Restaurant: 1257 Hamilton Street, Vancouver; 604-685-5010
CRU Restaurant: 1459 West Broadway, Vancouver; 604-677-4111
Diva at the Met: 645 Howe Street, Vancouver; 604-602-7788
Glowbal Grill & Satay Bar: 1079 Mainland Street, Vancouver; 604-602-0835
Goldfish Pacific Kitchen: 1118 Mainland Street, Vancouver; 604-689-8318
Italian Kitchen: 1037 Alberni Street, Vancouver; 604-687-2858
Joe Fortes Seafood & Chop House: 777 Thurlow Street, Vancouver; 604-669-1940
Mosaic Restaurant at the Hyatt Regency: 655 Burrard Street, Vancouver; 604-683-1234
O’Douls: 1300 Robson Street, Vancouver; 604-661-1400
PAIR Bistro: 3763 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver; 604-224-7211
Sanafir: 1026 Granville Street, Vancouver; 604-678-1049

Plus, stop by the BC Salmon Marketing Council’s informative “salmon tasting station” and try several different types of sockeye salmon from different areas of BC!