"If I had a choice of where to eat Chinese food tonight, it would be Vancouver - best value and best chefs, rivalling the quality in Hong Kong." Martin Yan, San Francisco

"Vancouver wine consumers appear to be as curious and as enlightened as any I've met around the world." James Halliday, leading Australian wine critic

"The Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival is easily the best consumer and trade wine show on the continent." Wine Access

"Vancouver cuisine is diverse and evolving. Restaurants serving Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese food thrive, of course, but so do those featuring regional fish cookery, Indian food by way of the Pacific Northwest, and French-inspired New Canadian dishes." Bon Appetit

"Spectacular as the scenery is, one could easily come here just for the food and wine." Wine Spectator

"For serious China aficionados, it is possible to dine on first-rate dim sum in different eateries every day for a week, spend entire afternoons in Asian shopping malls or tea salons, and end the night at the movies or a karaoke bar, without hearing anything but Cantonese or Mandarin." Washington Post

"For Chinese food, there's nowhere on this continent like Vancouver." New York Times

"To limit your tastes to the high-end would be to miss a big part of Vancouver's charm: funky cafes in former hippy enclaves, fish and chips on the wharf and a dazzling array of ethnic influences and fine local products." Ottawa Citizen

"From grazing among food stalls in Granville Island's PUblic Market to sampling dim sum in Chinatown, Vancouver is a foodie's fantasyland." USA Today

"This great restaurant city is the heartland of every admirable (and sometimes infuriating) food cause you've ever encountered - local, sustainable, organic, and eco-gastronomical among them." Bon Appetit