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Review: Chocolate-Making Workshop + Recipes

20 Feb

  Recognize some of the photos above? Well, you should if you were at the UBC Food Society’s annual chocolate-making workshop! This year we invited Miss Monica Mueller, who graciously showed us how to make eight different chocolates plus a heart-shaped chocolate basket, using only equipment that you can find in your home pantry. As [...]

Event Review: Six O’ Clock Sweets and Tea

13 Feb

  On the fourth Wednesday and Thursday of last month, Venus entered the reign of Aquarius and the gods, generous as they are, decided to bestow upon the good men- and womenfolk, of the hallowed halls of UBC, the divine intervention that was the Food Society’s ‘Six O’Clock Sweets and Tea’ event, a feast of [...]

Review: Pink Peppercorn Seafood House

24 Dec

I had passed by The Pink Peppercorn restaurant many times while driving down Kingsway, but I hadn’t really paid attention to it…that was, until a friend told me about their fantastic seafood menu. After that, I decided to check it out for myself! I went with a group of my friends to try the seafood [...]

Event Review: Seasons in the Park

3 Dec

  The first thing one usually thinks as they disembark from the bus to go to a fine dining event is not I very possibly might get mugged right now. However, as I got off the bus near Queen Elizabeth park, that was exactly what was on my mind. At night, the park can be [...]

Review: Red Sea Cafe

7 May

At their second meeting, the $20-dine out mini club dined at the Red Sea Cafe. Here’s Aaron’s summary of the evening: A few weeks after our last meeting our group re-grouped for Ethiopian food at Red Sea Cafe, located on East Broadway at Fraser. Nobody in the regular group had tried Ethiopian before and did [...]