About: Michelle Ng
A Foodie Halloween: 10 Jokes Worth Serving
Happy Halloween, Foodies! We hope you have an indulgent and utterly spooky day. We did a little prowling on the internet this week to find our favourite kind of Halloween jokes – the knee-slapping kind with a special foodie twist! And boy, did we hit the jack-o-lantern! We’ll certainly be telling a few on our […]
Cheer Up, Buttercup! The Best Desserts in Vancouver to Make Things Right
Raincouver. It’s back. It’s just the beginning. We saw over 30cm of rain in the last seven days. I was headed downtown across the Burrard Street bridge on of these monsoon-like mornings, thinking about “the season of comfort food.” Cold and dreary weather makes foodies yearn for all things warm, hearty, sweet, and decadent. As […]
How To Foodie Tour Like a Pro
So, you’re thinking about booking a foodie tour. Kudos to you for thinking like a champion. If you take a scroll through our TripAdvisor reviews, you’ll see that we’ve received a lot of love to become the best food tour in Vancouver. Gosh! How you guys can make us blush. Between our online reviews and what we hear […]
Gastown Hidden Gem: Shirakawa
Update: May 2017 – Shirakawa is now closed. It currently holds a thriving vegetarian restaurant called Meet! It seems that our list of things to do and things to eat in Vancouver increased exponentially this Fall. Restaurant staples like Chambar and Cafe Medina came out roaring with new digs and new menus, and another of […]
Thanksgiving in Vancouver: 5 Foodie Blessings
It’s Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend! It’s a time to celebrate all the things we’re thankful for, which, for many of us, includes indulging in a classic, food-coma-inducing meal! This year at VFT, we’re thankful for: the opportunity to showcase Vancouver’s multicultural culinary scene to foodies all around the world, our passionate team of guides that […]
Vancouver Foodie Tours Cook Off
What happens when you take a group of eight very passionate foodies and get them together for a meeting? A lot food, and a LOT of eating. That’s exactly what happened at this month’s Vancouver Foodie Tours team get together, where we met up for a bit of a cooking competition to share our favourite […]
500 Foodies on Instagram?!
It turns out, there are a lot of hungry Foodies out there! Every day, we are inspired by enthusiasm of our “foodie following” (online and offline) but, we were especially thrilled to grow our Instagram community to over 500 foodies this week! We invite you to celebrate the milestone with us…and we look forward to […]
New on Granville Island: Canada’s Largest 360-Degree Mural
The large, concrete silos at Granville Island got a facelift this summer, and I mean that quite literally. Just weeks ago, world-renowned Brazilian artists known as “OSGEMEOS” transformed 6, 23-metre tall concrete cylinders into iconic works of art – “Giants.” Other than being a photo-worthy place to visit in Vancouver, here are some quick & […]
The Season of Comfort Food: Recipe Within
If you’ve been following us on Instagram @vanfoodietours, you’ll know that a couple of the VFT members took a little roadtrip to the Okanagan this last week. Although we were sure to get our fill of BC wine (especially those that we feature on our Granville Island Market Tour and Guilty Pleasures Gourmet Tour), we […]
Our Top 5 Summer Hits in Vancouver
It was a rough week, wouldn’t you agree? Back-to-school promotions took over every store window and “The Return of your Favourite Shows” made the front page of the paper. In every direction, it seems that we are being urged along toward the impending doom of Fall. Well, you know what? We stuffed our bellies with […]
Enter to Win: Tickets to Spot Prawn Festival 2015
***As a special treat for the fifth and final week of our Seafood Series, we want to send you and a friend to this year’s Spot Prawn Boil at Fisherman’s Wharf on Sunday, May 17 at 2:00pm. Read on to enter to win!*** Seafood lovers in Vancouver will know – The Spot Prawn Boil at […]
Stops Along the Seawall: Delish General Store
It’s week 3 of our Stops Along the Seawall series! We’ve been hopping on our bikes and zooming along one of Vancouver’s most popular attractions: the 22k seawall. Though the view of the ocean is breathtaking, the city itself is just as impressive. Retail and residential space have truly become a commodity; you can’t help […]