How does a Foodie Tour work?

These are walking city tours, with a progressive meal along the way. From one delicious stop to the next, you’ll learn facts about Vancouver’s history, architecture and culture. We’ll skip the lines to indulge in show-stopping foods and share expert recommendations and local tips!

What if I have Dietary Restrictions?

We offer vegetarian and pescetarian tastings on all Foodie Tours! All of our food and drink tastings are arranged in advance, so we ask that you note this in your online ticket purchase. Unfortunately, we are unable to guarantee substitutions for other dietary restrictions such as: Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Vegan, and other food allergies. For these diets, the Granville Island Market Tour is your best option, but you may miss out on a number of tastings.

What is the Best Tour for Children?

The Granville Island Market Tour is designed to be a fun event for the whole family – we offer a $10 discount for kids 12 and under! Tickets are required for children over 3 years old. Children 3 and under who will not be eating do not require a ticket. However, please email us in advance to let us know that you’ll have a little one with you!

We design all our tours like a progressive meal – savoury to sweet, in thoughtfully-crafted portions. By the end of the tour experience, most guests are fully-satisfied, as if they had a meal! For those with larger appetites, we recommend having something light prior to the Foodie Tour.

How do you choose the tour stops?

We handpick every one of our tastings and tasting locations. These are foods we crave and places we genuinely love to visit with our own friends and family. We pay our tasting locations for the tour tastings and we work together as partners in making memorable experiences for our guests.

Home » Donut Spectacular at Granville Island

Donut Spectacular at Granville Island

By Michelle Ng
Updated: February 19, 2016

This weekend, Granville Island hosts the annual Winterruption Festival – a celebration of arts, culture, food and music. Though the Winterruption itinerary looks impressive as ever, there’s one particular event that we like to think is (unofficially) headlining the gig: The Donut Spectacular at Lee’s Donuts.

Featured on our Granville Island Market Tour, Lee’s Donuts is the crown jewel of the Public Market. Bakers of this family business arrive each day between 4-6am to prepare fresh batches of honey-glazed, chocolate-dipped, joy-filled, melt-in-your-mouth donuts! For Winterruption, Lee’s has added two limited edition flavours to their all-star line up. Here’s what to beeline for:

One Dozen Dynamite Flavours at The Donut Spectacular

Get ’em while they last – these won’t be there for long!

1. Winterruption Feature #1: Orange
Sweet and citrus, this limited edition white cake donut is topped with orange icing, orange zest, and crushed orange candy.

2. Winterruption Feature #2: Mocha
Coffee chocolate cake donut glazed with a mocha icing. Pair it with a cup of coffee from JJ Bean for a blissful morning!

3. Strawberry
A white cake donut glazed with a sweet strawberry icing.

4. French
A VFT Favourite! Made with a special flour, this spiralled, chewy donut is reminiscent of a French choux pastry. We heard it might not be around for much longer, so it’s time to seize the day!

5. Chocolate Sprinkle
If you’re looking for an Instagram photo, this is your donut.

6. Powdered Sugar
A white cake donut coated with powdered icing sugar.

7. Honey-Dipped
“This donut changed my life.” A common phrase from our Foodie Tour guests on the Granville Island Market Tour!

8. Mint
A chocolate cake donut glazed with mint icing.

9. Coconut
A white cake donut encased in shredded coconut.

10. Double Chocolate
Another VFT favourite! Chocolate cake donut glazed with rich chocolate icing.

11. Jelly
Only the best! This plump creation is “jam-packed” with traditional raspberry jam. We also love the mango-filled version…

12. Maple
If you’re keen to take on a Canadian classic, you can’t go wrong with this white cake donut glazed with maple icing!

These are a dozen of our favourite flavours, but there will be lot of choices on the shelves for Winterruption! We have yet to meet a Lee’s Donut we didn’t love. One last piece of advice? Lee’s makes fresh donuts all throughout the day, but those who arrive between 10-11am will have the whole wall of flavours to choose from. Happy feasting!