Eat! Vancouver

Category:
Food
When:
Sunday, May 30, 2010 11:00 am -
5:00 pm
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Where:

Vancouver Convention Centre

4.5 star rating
based on 21 reviews
1055 Canada Pl
Vancouver, BC V6C 0C3
(604) 689-8232
How:
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Crystal H.   See all events submitted by Crystal H. »
What/Why:
Friday, May 28th, 2010  2 PM - 9 PM
Saturday, May 29th, 2010  11 AM - 9 PM
Sunday, May 30th, 2010 11 AM - 5 PM

From the website:

EAT! Vancouver Food and Cooking Festival is the ultimate food expo

Celebrity chefs, popular local restaurants, wineries, food and beverage manufacturers, cookbook authors, retailers, artisans, and many others from the culinary world will come together for a three day public extravaganza at the new Vancouver Convention Centre. EAT Vancouver encompasses unique food experiences, opportunities to learn behind-the-scenes culinary magic from professional chefs, dynamic entertainment through celebrity chef cooking demonstrations and culinary competitions, diverse food, beverage and cooking related exhibits; and of course fantastic shopping opportunities.

Come for lunch and stay for dinner at EAT! Vancouver's Bite of Vancouver restaurant pavilion. The chefs of favourite Lower Mainland restaurants will serve up appetizer portions of their signature recipes. For a nominal charge ($1.00 - $2.50) per item you will be able to savour the flavours of numerous eateries.

Beer, wine and spirits will be well represented in the Tasting Pavilion where you can sip and taste hundreds of different beverages. Hosted by Daenna Van Mulligen, Vancouver's Wine Diva, the Grapes and Hops Stage will feature presentations and tastings of numerous local and regional beers and wines conducted by a variety of industry experts. In addition, Giffard will be sponsoring mixology presentations featuring four of Vancouver's top bartenders.

While at EAT! Vancouver, you will also enjoy shopping in the marketplace of over 250 exhibit booths. Producers, manufacturers, retailers and food artisans will showcase a wide assortment of unique products for eating, drinking, cooking, entertaining, and outfitting a kitchen. Exhibits will include everything from gourmet foods to kitchen accessories, and barbecues to beverages.

While visiting EAT! Vancouver, you will...

Discover new food + beverage products +cooking ingredients
Taste hundreds of  food and beverage from hundreds of exhibitors
Shop & buy hard to find food +cooking related products.
Learn new methods of cooking from the experts
Watch Food Network celebrity chefs showcase their talents on stage
Learn cuisines of foreign lands in the World Culinary Tourism Expo
Enjoy tasting the offerings of restaurants and wineries +breweries
Find new foods + treats for your pets in the Pets EAT! Too Pavilion
Make your own healthy choices in the Wellness Pavilion
Discover appreciation for cheese at Dairy Farmer's Cheese Seminars
Talk with food producers, growers, vintners and brewers
Improve wine + beer appreciation in Grapes & Hops Seminar area.

EAT! Vancouver is Canada's largest consumer food, beverage and cooking festival taking place at the new Vancouver convention Centre, West Wing, Vancouver, BC on May 28, 29 & 30, 2010. The food show features hundreds of food, beverage and kitchen goods exhibitors along with wineries, breweries, restaurants, cooking demonstrations, wine and cheese seminars, cookbook authors, and chef competitions.

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5/29/2010 Vanessa "veg" G. says:

Is there a cost to enter? Or is it free and you just buy the food?

5/29/2010 Christine "comma wrangler" R. says:

There is an admission fee, and then you can buy tickets for sampling from the restaurant and booze booths. But most vendors (food and beverage companies) have free samples, so you can fill up pretty good on those.

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5/29/2010 Renee J. says:

The convention centre was quite small for the number of people who attended this event.  I would have stayed longer and bought sample tickets if I didn't have to deal with feeling claustrophobic. The washrooms were also hidden in a corner behind a curtain, not easily accessible.

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5/29/2010 Renee J. says:

The convention centre was quite small for the number of people who attended this event.  I would have stayed longer and bought sample tickets if I didn't have to deal with feeling claustrophobic. The washrooms were also hidden in a corner behind a curtain, not easily accessible.  The best advice I can give is BRING CASH.  That is all some vendors take, including purchasing sample tickets for the food and liquor.

5/29/2010 Reena "Maple me up" M. says:

Ahh... you think that it was a smaller venue?? I did feel like it was so crowded, and that the lines were always so long for everything...

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5/29/2010 Joyce "Vegas and San Fran get ready for me Im coming fast" D. says:

Washrooms very very hidden; impossible to find without asking! Reena is right; bring cash because it costs $3.50 charge to use their ATM, horrendous!
Very, very crowded! This year had the smallest amount of vendors at the Bite of Vancouver (restaurant section).
You will get lots of re-useable fabric bags! BONUS!
You will wait for a long time to get the samples at quite a few of the stands, some quicker than others.
Convention centre far too small for this!

5/29/2010 Reena "Maple me up" M. says:

You got reusable fabric bags? from where? I only managed to get a reusable bag from Barefoot Wines....

5/30/2010 Raymond "Roll me over, I'm done" O. says:

After experiencing EAT! Vancouver last year, I decided to head to EPIC instead. Has anyone gone to both events? I wanted to see if it was worth skipping EAT this year.

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