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EAT! Vancouver - May22-24, 2009
K-Dub
05-21-2009, 11:49 PM
http://eat-vancouver.com/
Anyone going?
Buy your tickets online for $12, save $3 from the regular price.
I'll be going tomrorow. :)
I'll probably be going. I skipped it last year so hopefully they have some good exhibits :D
6insomnia9
05-22-2009, 02:08 AM
Volunteered here last year to get out of school.
:P
willystyle
05-22-2009, 06:43 AM
It's not worth going. The portion size is small, and the food are expensive for what you get.
Mugen EvOlutioN
05-22-2009, 09:03 AM
how does this work?
$12 dollar for ticket just to in?
than inside foods are additional?
hamsup
05-22-2009, 09:25 AM
Yup.. 12 dollars is for admission.. then you have to buy tickets for the beer garden and food stands..
I went a few times in the past.. it keeps getting worse imo..
- less samples
- more expensive vendor food
- same shops show up each year
It is very similar to the nibble and bites in richmond.. or taste of vancouver events.. but this one is of a larger scale ..
freakshow
05-22-2009, 10:28 AM
I'll be going on saturday :)
Durrann1984
05-22-2009, 12:25 PM
is tojos gonna be there again with bob blumer??
q0192837465
05-22-2009, 01:33 PM
geez, so u dun get unlimited food? Damn, I thot it it's like $12 AYCE. I might re-think about going
bcrdukes
05-22-2009, 04:03 PM
^WTF?! :lol
K-Dub
05-23-2009, 12:25 AM
geez, so u dun get unlimited food? Damn, I thot it it's like $12 AYCE. I might re-think about going
^WTF?! :lol
What the fuck indeed. Are you serious?
Anyways....my post about it is up.
http://604foodtography.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/eat-vancouver-food-cooking-festival-2009/
It's not that bad as you guys make it sound. :) Just go get the free samples, make 3 rounds of the whole floor and you should be full.
TRDood
05-24-2009, 10:56 PM
LOL i went today and treated it as a AYCE walk around buffet
Bought Stuff:
1 butter chicken + kehbab $4
1 sockeye salmon cone $1.50
then i found...
Free Samples.. i had:
12 miso soups
12+ pepperonis
8+ smoked rockfish
8+ salami
6+ ham
6+ green tea samples
5 butter chicken/curry stuff
4 casear salads
2 fresh mozzarella cheese + crackers
2 beef gravy that had mushrooms in it
1 tomato pesto soup
1 butternut squash soup
1 full bottle of Fuze drink for $0.25 donation
plus tons of other random shit
i was there at the samples for 2 hours.. LOL
$12 well worth it
K-Dub
05-24-2009, 11:40 PM
LOL i went today and treated it as a AYCE walk around buffet
Bought Stuff:
1 butter chicken + kehbab $4
1 sockeye salmon cone $1.50
then i found...
Free Samples.. i had:
12 miso soups
12+ pepperonis
8+ smoked rockfish
8+ salami
6+ ham
6+ green tea samples
5 butter chicken/curry stuff
4 casear salads
2 fresh mozzarella cheese + crackers
2 beef gravy that had mushrooms in it
1 tomato pesto soup
1 butternut squash soup
1 full bottle of Fuze drink for $0.25 donation
plus tons of other random shit
i was there at the samples for 2 hours.. LOL
$12 well worth it
Good memory! I actually missed out on a lot of the free stuff reading this...
I didn't get caesar salad, beef gravy, soups, and the Fuze. ..don't even know where those are lol.
Did any of you sit down at any of the stages? I did...mmmm beer!
http://604foodtography.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/eat-vancouver-2009-lambic-beer-tasting/
taylor192
05-25-2009, 10:31 AM
This event was not worth the $$$.
I was expecting something similar to Ottawa's Wine and Food show, and was very disappointed. When I moved here I searched for a similar event, its one of the things I missed about Ottawa, so I had this in my calendar for months.
The quality of the vendors food was subpar, basically cheap ethnic fast food I could get anywhere for about the same price. At the Ottawa show the vendors have seats at their booths and serve amazing food, albeit for a higher price. This event would be better with more local restaurants participating and serving small tastes of their menus.
I cannot believe there was an entire row of non-food vendors. Its a food show, not a travel show!
The only fun part was the alcohol section, yet after 4 laps and trying every booze vendor we left. We had a lot of tickets, figured we'd get drunk since the event was a bust. This event would be better if the alcohol section was 2-3 times bigger and featured more BC wineries.
I did manage to eat 9 galub jamons! mmmmm where can I get these in Vancouver (I live in Kits) without having to sit and eat at a restaurant?
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