Fun Foodie Day Out

Today I asked my trendy cool friend Macrina to take me around town doing what she does which seems to be hunt down all the cool places to eat and try locally produced delicacies from small businesses. Loved it!!!! I use my having been away as an excuse for not being in the know on the Vancouver scene but the truth is even when I lived here I stuck quite close to home and just always went to my fav restaurants. I definitely wanted to stop missing out and try some new things.

Vancouver is becoming a real foodie's paradise , with food trucks popping up all over the place and tons of cool and funky restaurants all around.

But our first food encounter was both interesting and free ! Macrina had seen on facebook that down the street the 3rd annual grilled cheese giveaway was happening today. What is this you say? Well it is pretty much what it says on the tin. Despite GIVEAWAY being in the title of the event, my brain stuck to the old cliche "there is no free lunch" and kept expecting to have to pay a few bucks. But no, it really was a giveaway! I don't know who organises it but some individuals (not any business!) just decided it would be nice to have a mini street party and just hand out grilled cheese sandwiches. There was music blasting and even a mini mattress/picnic blanket on the side shaped like a grilled cheese sandwich (see pics). Maybe i am too much of a capitalist but I just could not understand why anyone would want to give me a sandwich without wanting anything from me - they didn't want cash, they didn't want to brainwash me to to like some corporate organisation with sponsorship, they didn't want 15 mins of my time to do a quick survey to benefit some company. I kept looking around waiting for the penny to drop,but it never did. Eat the free sarnie, chat with some people all hanging out if u like, or not, whatever!!

Awesome signs directing u to event:

Giant cheese sandwich mattress and more signs leading up to yummy grilled cheese:

Macrina being a cool person as I have already mentioned, even bumped into other cool people like herself who had come to check out the event. So we stayed a little while chatting then we headed off to our next food destination.

This time it was macaroons. Check out all the awesome bright colours and flavours! I stopped listening when she said earl gray (the cream colour one with the purple flecks in the back) but I think there were pistachio, lemon, lychee... I can't remember what the bright green and bright blue ones are...

Yum . I definitely like earl gray in anything, macaroon no exception .

Lastly, we went to Red Wagon which Macrina explained to me served diner cuisine, but with quite a lot of smoked meat featuring on the menu. Between three of us we shared a Reuben sandwich:

And also something pretty cool, the pulled pork pancakes:

And yes I'm talking about north American pancakes, thick and fluffy with some yummy maple syrup. Sandwiched between the 3 pancakes was some delicious pulled pork!! When I read this on the menu I thought oh no that is weird that must taste strange but surprisingly it goes reeeally well together and I am def taking Keith when he gets here!

Fun day out! Can't wait to do it more! Thanks Macrae!