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Coal Harbour · hotel revealed soon
A visiting chef cooks with the host hotel's chef, with BC wine in every glass.
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Vancouver's international culinary week. The world's chefs, from the runway to the summit.
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Imagine a world-class culinary event celebrating Vancouver and the Coast Mountains. Its restaurants, its chefs, its food and its wine. One week. Two weekends. Every sense, awake.
Boarding pass · YVR ExperienceClass: all senses
- Weekend oneKick-off at YVRLEG 01
- All weekSix hotel tablesLEG 02
- MidweekORIGINS at the Museum of AnthropologyLEG 03
- Year-roundWorld Chef ExchangeLEG 04
- Weekend twoCoast Mountain Fire on GrouseLEG 05
- Now boardingJoin the waitlistLEG 06
The world's chefsland here.
The week opens at the airport itself. Chefs from the cities that love Vancouver most fly in and cook the kick-off at YVR.
Every visiting chef brings a writer from home. The chef cooks, the writer tells the story, and Vancouver's table gets talked about in Tokyo, Paris and New York.
1+1One chef and one media guest
from every market
from every market
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Target cities. The chef lineup lands soon.
Six hotels.
Six tables.
One week.
Each visiting chef moves into one of Vancouver's great hotels and cooks with its chef. One-night-only menus, poured with BC wine, that taste like this city.
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Tokyo
Paris
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False Creek · hotel revealed soon
A visiting chef cooks with the host hotel's chef, with BC wine in every glass.
Seoul
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Downtown · hotel revealed soon
A visiting chef cooks with the host hotel's chef, with BC wine in every glass.
New York
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Downtown · hotel revealed soon
A visiting chef cooks with the host hotel's chef, with BC wine in every glass.
Copenhagen
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Downtown · hotel revealed soon
A visiting chef cooks with the host hotel's chef, with BC wine in every glass.
Singapore
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Downtown · hotel revealed soon
A visiting chef cooks with the host hotel's chef, with BC wine in every glass.
Seats will be scarce.
Each table seats a few dozen guests for one night only. The waitlist hears first.
Join the waitlistA return toour beginnings.
ORIGINS is where individual histories collide to forge something entirely new. True originality is driven by what came before: by roots.
At UBC's Museum of Anthropology, Indigenous chefs and visiting international chefs share a kitchen and a table. Techniques, ingredients and philosophy pass hand to hand, and the stories travel home with the visitors.
Chef teams fly by float plane to Rivers Inlet, a glacier-carved fjord in one of the world's largest remaining temperate rainforests and the traditional territory of the Wuikinuxv Nation.
The Museum of Anthropology stands on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.
Home& away.
The exchange runs both ways. Through the year, Vancouver's chefs fly out to the same cities as ambassadors for British Columbia, with BC winemakers pouring beside them.
Ten routes out of YVR. One table that never really closes.
- YVRNRT · Tokyo
- YVRICN · Seoul
- YVRHKG · Hong Kong
- YVRSIN · Singapore
- YVRCDG · Paris
- YVRLHR · London
- YVRCPH · Copenhagen
- YVRJFK · New York
- YVRMEX · Mexico City
- YVRSYD · Sydney
CoastMountainFire.
The week ends on top of Grouse Mountain, with the city it celebrated glittering below.
The closing night moves up the mountain: open fires, rustic Coast Mountain cooking, and Vancouver laid out beneath you.
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