Life got a little sweeter for the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver recently. More than 300 lbs of honey was harvested from the hotel’s beehives near the end of August. The Fairmont has it’s own herb garden on the 3rd floor where many of the herbs and vegetables are grown for the restaurant.

In early June, the hotel welcomed two noteable Italian queens – one raised in Kona, Hawaii and the other raised in Santiago Chile. With morethan 60,000 subjects per queen, the honey bees are the newest members of the Waterfront’s culinary team.

Frank Palter, the Fairmont Waterfront’s head bartender, has …read more

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of accompanying Rebecca to the Iron Bar Competition for Gibson’s Finest Canadian Whiskey. The Vancouver event featured four of the city’s best mixologists – the four known for creating unique, and extremely original cocktails. We had Justin Tisdall from Boneta, Frank Palter from Fairmont Waterfront, Ryan Cheverie from Hamilton Street Grill and Sophie Taverner from the Cascade Room.
Every city across Canada that has a CFL team will host a competition which will feature cocktails made from Gibson’s Finest Canadian Whiskey and a top-secret ingredient, revealed immediately before the bartenders have to create their cocktail. The …read more