Discover cozy cafes and restaurants and taste the highlights of a West Coast harvest season amidst a glorious landscape of changing colours in one of Metro Vancouver’s best-loved local getaways this autumn–Langley City! ‘Fall’ for the season with a weekend staycation in Langley City, with a prize package including a one night stay at Coast Langley City Hotel & Convention Centre and gift cards totalling $250 to spend at 5 local restaurants–check out the weekend itinerary below! A Weekend in Langley City Day 1 Make Egg Bomb your first stop for a day of dining and exploring. Their extensive list of specialty coffees is the perfect compliment to their famous breakfast to lunch fare–this place is the bomb in more ways than one! Address: 301-20300 Fraser Highway Now that you’ve worked up an appetite, lace up your walking shoes and wander through one the idyllic trails at Sendall Gardens, one…
By Kristi Alexandra With sushi being a long-held staple of the Vancouver diet, it’s a wonder that Hawaiian poke—a cubed raw fish salad served atop rice—hadn’t hit the city’s mainstream earlier. Since 2016, though, it seems a new poke-fusion place is cropping up on every block. So, pescatarians rejoice! Now, the raw fish dish can be found trickling in to communities outside of Vancouver, and Steve Huynh is bringing his authentic poke to the community. But what is authentic poke, anyway? “Poke means chopped in Hawaii,” imparts Huynh, owner of Steve’s Poke Bar, “there’s different variations of raw fish. In Japan, you get sasami; if you go to Puerto Rico or Mexico, you’ll get ceviche. Different dishes have different ways to present raw fish,” the restaurateur tells WestCoastFood. Huynh and his wife, Camy opened the doors to Steve’s Poke Bar at SFU Burnaby in early 2017, serving up an authentic…