6th Annual EAT! Vancouver - The Everything Food + Cooking Festival

EAT! Vancouver is Canada's largest consumer food, beverage and cooking festival. The food show features hundreds of food, beverage and kitchen goods exhibitors along with wineries, breweries, restaurants, cooking demonstrations, wine and cheese seminars, cookbook authors, chef competitions and barbecue and chili cook-offs. EAT! Vancouver and Union Gospel Mission have partnered together, with the generosity of both our exhibitors and the multitude of visitors, leading to the gathering of well over $40,000 in cash and food of all kinds to help alleviate some of the hunger that exists on the streets of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.

Details About The Venue

There is so much to see and EAT! at this wonderful festival.  Here is list of the featured areas you will want to check out…

• The Wellness Pavilion - Here you will find exhibitors featuring organic, natural, fair trade and/or socially-responsible products in addition to ways for you to relax and revitalize.
• World Culinary Travel Expo - The exhibitors here will be showcasing world tourism through regional food, cuisine, cooking, chefs, hospitality and beverages.
• Wine, Beer & Spirits Tasting Pavilion - Come and enjoy some of the best wines, beers and spirits from British Columbia and around the world, offered for tasting by the vintners and producers themselves. Sample, compare and ask questions directly from those who know.
• The Bite of Vancouver Restaurant Pavilion - This is where you will find the owners, chefs and servers of some of Vancouver’s favorite restaurants serving up a dizzying array of cuisine, both local and international. Visit numerous restaurants in one afternoon or evening, taste their menu selections for only $1 to $4 per appetizer size portion, study their entire menu, talk to the chef and ask questions from the experts.
• Pets EAT! Too Pavilion - Everything for dog and cat nutrition, nourishment, food, snacks, treats, chewies, raw food, pet insurance, pet clothing, pet accessories, including lots of free pet food samples, can be found here.

Friday: May 23, 2008 - 3:00 pm
Sunday: May 25, 2008 - 3:00 pm
Thursday: May 29, 2008 - 12:00 pm
Thursday: May 29, 2008 - 1:00 pm
Friday: May 30, 2008 - 1:00 pm
Friday: May 30, 2008 - 8:00 pm
Saturday: May 31, 2008 - 8:00 pm
Sunday: June 01, 2008 - 7:00 pm
Tuesday: June 03, 2008 - 8:00 pm
Wednesday: June 04, 2008 - 8:00 pm
Thursday: June 05, 2008 - 8:00 pm
Friday: June 06, 2008 - 8:00 pm
Saturday: June 07, 2008 - 8:00 pm

Location & Directions

BC Place
777 Pacific Blvd
Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 4Y8

Festivals Events

The Chocolate Competition
Chocolate Showpiece Entries – Friday May 23rd
Both Professional & Student/Novice entries must be set up on Friday, May 23rd from 11 am to 1 pm
Bonbon Praline & Plated Chocolate Dessert Entries – Saturday, May 24th
Both Professional & Student/Novice entries must be set up on Saturday, May 24th, 7 am to 9 am
Judging will commence at 1:30 pm on Friday and 9:30 am on Saturday. Only judges and
committee members may be present in the area while judging is taking place.

B.C. Chefs’ Association Culinary Salon Cooking Competition
The Show will be open to the public and the media, bringing valued exposure to our Industry and Association. The Competition is sanctioned by the CCFCC and its rules. All competitors must adhere to the CCFCC rules and criteria, please download the competition rules and registration information from the left sidebar on this page. The competition will feature cold display categories only. The Medals Award Ceremony will take place on Sunday afternoon with all the competitors, judges, and media present.

Citytv’s Master Chef Competition, Presented by: Blackwood Career Apparel
The sixth annual Citytv’s Master Chef Competition (Iron Chef style) will take place at EAT! Vancouver May 23 - 25, 2008, where 17 chefs from British Columbia will compete for the title in a head-to-head heated competition witnessed by an inquisitive audience. Black box cooking competitions are considered the most challenging of culinary competitions because the food content of the boxes is not revealed prior to the event. The pressure of competing is compounded by the unknown ingredients. The chef has to accept the challenge of devising a main course from the Black Box by using only the foods the box contains. Once open, it’s up to the chef’s creative talents to come up with an innovative idea and prepare it in the 35 minute time allotted.

Barbecue & Chili Competition
Barbecue teams cooking, smoking, barbecuing, marinading beef, pork, sausage, chicken, musk ox, hamburgers. Chili-heads cooking big pots of fiery hot chili. Thousands of dollars in prizes. In 2005 The Canadian Festival of BBQ and Chili moved to a new host location: EAT! Vancouver, The Everything Food + Cooking Festival, and is back for a third time at EAT! Vancouver at BC Place Stadium again on May 23, 24 & 25, 2008.

*Check back for more information on the stage schedule for FoodNetwork, HomeSense, Grapes & Hops, and the Dairy Farmers of Canada Cheese Seminar.  These times will not be available until after May 1st.