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What does a Vancouver progressive dinner look like?

2 Comments September 25, 2009

The closest I’ve gotten to experience a progressive restaurant dinner was the Phantom Culinary Experience at the 2009 Culinary Tourism Conference. Our breakout group had jumped on a chartered Vancouver Trolley to explore 5 different venues around Granville Island, sipping and snacking on the edibles available at each.

As much fun as that was, I am nowhere near as fortunate or generous as Victor (Pick) Tang, who this July won our Top Donor challenge during Blogathon 2009. His $180 individual donation was rewarded with a 3-restaurant progressive dinner with Top Table.

Top Table progressive dinner

Name doesn’t ring a bell? They’re the group that operates Blue Water Cafe, CinCin, West, and Whistler’s Araxi (which impressed chef Gordon Ramsay enough to sing its praises on The Hour and make it the focal point of this season’s Hell’s Kitchen).

I asked Victor to let me know how his dinner went. He went a step further and took Gigi as his +1.  You may already know Gigi; she’s a Vancouver food blogger and the woman behind Ho Yummy. This week, she and Victor shared the highlights of their evening over a series of three posts.

  1. Top Table Progressive Dinner Part 1 – Blue Water Cafe
  2. Top Table Progressive Dinner Part 2 – West
  3. Top Table Progressive Dinner Part 3 – CinCin Ristorante + Bar

Check out her recaps and photos and drool along with me.

Categories: Blogathon 2009, Culinary Resources, Downtown, Events, Food, Restaurants, South Granville, Yaletown

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2 Responses to “What does a Vancouver progressive dinner look like?”

  1. gigi on September 25th, 2009 10:33 am

    Thanks for the pingbacks, Karen! I’m still thrilled that Pick chose me and it was very generous of you to offer such a great prize. It was a wonderful and unique experience and the food was unbeatable! I will have to try out Araxi the next time I’m in Whistler to finish off the Top Table experience. :)

  2. pick on September 26th, 2009 1:36 pm

    agreed, thanks karen! the next time you’re able to offer any prize like this, i will definitely be all over it again. this was quite the experience!

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