ice cream for breakfast yeah!
Here is your chance to have ice cream for breakfast and contribute to the greater good. Kind Ice Cream (9551 76 Avenue, 587-759-0080, kindicecream.ca) is opening at 9am this Saturday to scoop for Momentum Walk-In Counselling. All proceeds from the 9am-12pm scoop sales will be donated to this excellent, non-profit, walk-in centre devoted to mental health: momentumcounselling.org
wednesday dinners at kitchen
Come to Kitchen by Brad (10130 105 Street, 780-757-7704, kitchenbybrad.ca) for an easy-going and delicious three-course dinner (soup or salad, entrée and dessert) every Wednesday from 5pm-8pm. Enjoy classic Kitchen dishes for only $35. Check out this week’s menu and book: app.getoccasion.com.
for the love of wine and kids
For the Love of Wine fundraiser happens this Saturday at the Double Tree Inn, February 1. Taste fab Italian wines and support a local charity that helps keep kids safe. Tix: from $125, eventbrite.ca.
it’s time for masakage at knifewear
All in-stock Masakage (handmade Japanese knives) are 15 per cent off during February. Stock up on easy-to-maintain Kiris; great looking Koishi knives, even the spectacular Zero. Catch the Facebook Live Kickoff with Knifewear founder Kevin Kent at 10:00pm January 31 at facebook.com.
drink mt boucherie at the glass monkey
Enjoy wines from the Okanagan’s Mt. Boucherie Winery at the next Monkey Business Dinner at the Glass Monkey (5842 111 Street, 780-760-2228, theglassmonkey.ca), Thursday, February 6, 6:30pm, five courses paired with five wines. Tix: $79 ++, email janine@theglassmonkey.ca or call 780-760-2228.
photo courtesy Mt. Boucherie Winery
pe mitso (come and eat) at culina to go
This is a collab dinner you won’t want to miss. Join Culina’s exec chef Brad Lazarenko, chef Shane Chartrand (co-author of Tawâw: Progressive Indigenous Cuisine and the River Cree/Enoch Cree Nation culinary ambassador) and chef Scott Iserhoff of the Attawapiskat First Nation (owner of Pei Pei Chei Ow, peipeicheiow.com) for a five-course dinner in the Oliver Exchange’s Foundry Room (12019 – 102 Avenue). Expect storytelling and drumming by the Warrior Women (mother and daughter Matricia and Mackenzie Brown) and Indigenous art display curated by the Indigenous Artist Market Collective. This promises to be a deliciously immersive experience, Sunday, February 9, 5pm. Tix: $85++, eventbrite.com
last chance for the top100
Let us know your nominations for the best thing you ate or drank last year by January 31!
