Restaurant Awards 2018

ON APRIL 16TH, the city’s top chefs and restaurateurs gathered in the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre for the de facto Oscars of Vancouver’s restaurant industry: the 2018 Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards. Here’s a peek behind the curtain.

1. A packed room of excited guests before our awards

2. Guest getting the perfect shot of Trimpac’s Slow Cooked Cabecero of Iberico Pork

3. Avenue PR’S Tiffany Soper and Gemma Bishop with Savio Volpe’s Mark Perrier

4. Sheraton Wall Centre replenishing their delicious canapes

5. Russian Standard mixing up their refreshing cocktail

6. Steel & Oak serving up perfectly chilled beer at our Post Reception

7. Poplar Grove pours a glass for Joey’s Sommelier Jason Yamasaki

8. Lisa Martella from A Loving Spoonful and Dining Out For Life gives her remarks

9. Restaurant Awards Judge and Follow Me Foodie Mijune Pak

10. Our Bartender of the Year Satoshi Yonemori ecstatically poses for a photo

11. Sushi station in full swing at our Joey After Party

12. Packed room at our Joey After Party as guests mix and mingle

13. A Joey bartender putting the final touch on their Leading Lady cocktail of the evening

14. CBC’S Stephen Quin and Gloria Macarenko strike a pose with Chef JC Poirier from Restaurant of the Year Winner St. Lawrence

15. Neal Mclennan Food Editor of Vancouver Magazine making his opening regards

16. Katie Ingram, Nick Bertoia, Kristie Linneboe, and Mark Mcneil

17. Chef of the Year Alex Chen from Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar with Vancouver magazine’s Editorial Director Anicka Quin