First Look: Upgrade Café Victoria
The guests at Upgrade Victoria Cafe know that the coffee, beverages, food, and supplements are the purest available, and you can expect to feel a difference in how you perform the first time you experience them.
Desserts
The Best Vegan Desserts in Victoria
Once upon a time, delicious vegan baked goods were pretty scarce unless you baked them yourself. Well, not anymore. Today, so many of our local restaurants and bakeries now have at least one vegan dessert option. Whether you’re in the mood for a box of doughnuts, a custom cake, or a warm cinnamon bun—if you can imagine it, it’s probably available somewhere in Victoria.
How a Victoria-based entrepreneur broke into the competitive space of gourmet ice cream
Häagen-Dazs? Ben and Jerry’s? Lori Joyce says her old-world, natural ice cream is the best in your grocery store’s frozen food aisle
Victoria’s first 100% sugar-free bakery
Introducing Euphoria Bakery, Victoria’s first sugar- and grain-free bakery. Euphoria is dedicated to bringing you and your family delicious treats that satisfy your sweet tooths, without using any sugar, grains, or gluten.
Victoria’s Best Pains au Chocolat
Whether you’re a pastry lover, chocolate lover, or both, pain au chocolat is the perfect dessert to satisfy your cravings. Warm, buttery, crispy, crumbly, with ooey-gooey chocolate inside, this dessert is one of my ultimate favourites.
All things Mini Eggs! Where to find the best chocolate Mini Egg treats this spring.
It’s time to get excited because chocolate Mini Egg season is here!
Every year we have more delicious Mini Egg treats in the city, from Mini Egg ice cream, cookies, cheesecakes, macarons, and even Mini Egg chocolate bars!
Here are the ultimate chocolate Mini Egg treats you need to try in Victoria.
Victoria’s best apple fritters
The famed apple fritter is perhaps the most socially acceptable pastry to eat for breakfast—because well… fruit. For many of us, the smell of cinnamon and apples encased in warm, sugary dough is enough to bring back happy, nostalgic memories.
Bonfires and S’mores! A Bilston Creek Farm experience with your “bubble”
The novelty of a campfire, coupled with s’mores and hot chocolate, was enough to convince me to book a bonfire site for our bubble. So if you love campfires, s’mores, and lavender, this is an outdoor event for you!
Level Ground: Profile of a Coffee Roaster
For such a small city, Victoria is blessed with an abundance of excellent local coffee roasters. On a recent morning, Tasting Victoria toured Level Ground’s Tasting Room and roastery—and sampled their delicious Americano.
First Look: Tres Gourmet Bakery and Cafe
A new cafe concept opened this summer on Broad Street and if you haven’t visited this gem yet, it’s time to make some eating plans.