Quinn Palmer and Michela Byl are the owners and operators of Rootside Bitters & Mixers and Esquimalt Wine. https://www.instagram.com/rootsidemixers/ https://www.instagram.com/esquimaltwine/ https://rootside.ca/ https://esquimaltwine.ca/

Rob Curtis, Brian Newham and Tod Bosence are all co-owners of Refire Kitchen. https://www.instagram.com/refire_kitchen https://refirekitchen.ca/

Paul Hadfield is the Publican of Spinnakers Brewpub. Paddy Russell is a brewer at Spinnakers Brewpub. https://www.instagram.com/spinnakersbrewpub/ https://www.spinnakers.com/

Art Pookjit is the owner of Thai Pinto Cuisine. East Kamoon is the head chef at Thai Pinto Cuisine. https://www.facebook.com/THAI-PINTO-Cuisine-183234358889693/

Michael Shipley is one of the owners of Farm’s Gate. Daniel Shipley is a chef and one of the owner’s of Farm’s Gate. https://www.instagram.com/farmsgatefoods/ https://farmsgatefoods.ca/

Dan Edler is the owner and operator of 49 Below Ice Cream. https://www.instagram.com/49below/ https://49below.ca/

Andrew Paumier is a chef and one of the owners of Indecent Risotto. https://www.instagram.com/indecentrisotto/ https://www.indecentrisotto.com/

Landon Crawford is a project coordinator at the Red Cedar Cafe and Tahlia Lydlow is a board member at the Red Cedar Cafe. https://www.instagram.com/red_cedar_cafe/ https://www.redcedarcafe.ca/ https://www.redcedarcafe.ca/support-us https://ca.gofundme.com/f/keep-the-lights-on-at-red-cedar-cafe

Shawn Soole is a business owner, consultant, bartender, author and podcast host. https://www.instagram.com/shawnsoole https://www.instagram.com/soolehospitalityconcepts https://www.instagram.com/bcspirits https://www.instagram.com/clivesclassiclounge/ https://soolehospitality.com/ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bc-spirits-cocktail-book https://www.amazon.ca/Great-Northern-Cocktails

Israel Alvarez is a chef and the owner and operator of Maiiz Nixtamal. https://www.instagram.com/maiiz.nixtamal/ https://www.instagram.com/israel_alvarezm/ https://www.maiiz.ca/

Guillaume Kieffer is a cheesemonger and the owner and operator of L’Apéro. https://www.instagram.com/aperocheese1/ https://www.aperocheeseexperience.com/

Kyle Clayton and Shane Harwood are butchers and the owners of Haus Sausage. https://www.instagram.com/haussausageco/ https://www.haussausageco.com/

Joe Wiebe is known as the Thirsty Writer and is the Director of Content at The BC Ale Trail. Bonnie Todd is the owner and operator of Off The Eaten Track Food Tours in Victoria, BC. https://www.instagram.com/thirstywriter https://www.thirstywriter.com/ https://www.instagram.com/offtheeatentrack https://offtheeatentracktours.ca/

Tarn Tayanunt is the owner of Dumpling Drop.  Emily Eymundson is the Operations Manager of Dumpling Drop. https://instagram.com/dumplingdrop https://dumplingdrop.ca/

Jason Chan is one of the owners of The Village. Brian Bobiak is one of the owners of The Village. https://www.instagram.com/village.hq https://www.thevillagerestaurant.ca/ https://vunit.ca/

Clark Deutscher is one of the owners and the head chef of Hanks (*a restaurant) and Nowhere (*a restaurant).  Devon Revelle is one of the owners of Hanks (*a restaurant) and Nowhere (*a restaurant). https://www.instagram.com/hanksvic https://www.instagram.com/nowherearestaurant http://hanksarestaurant.com/ http://nowherearestaurant.com/

Chris Stiebel is the head chef at Bon Macaron Patisserie.  Yann Fougere is one of the owners of Bon Macaron Patisserie. https://www.instagram.com/bonmacaronpatisserie/ https://www.facebook.com/BonMacaron/ http://www.bonmacaronpatisserie.com/

Matthew Davis is the owner of The Cookie Guy. https://www.instagram.com/cookieguy_yyj/ https://thecookieguy.ca/

Jenni and Brendan Brown are the owners and operators of Harvest Road. https://www.instagram.com/harvest.rd/

Jason Rampone is a chef at The Hive Eatery. https://www.instagram.com/thehive.eatery/ https://www.instagram.com/jasonrampone https://www.hiveeatery.ca/

Chelsey Columbus is the owner and baker behind the massively popular Sidney Scones. https://www.instagram.com/sidneyscones/ https://www.sidneyscones.ca

This is the place where we will be talking about food in and around Victoria, British Columbia.

Daisy Orser is one of the owners and operators of The Root Cellar Village Green Grocer. https://www.instagram.com/rootcellar https://www.instagram.com/rootcellarbyday http://therootcellar.ca/

Franz & Remi are the hosts of the In The Weeds Podcast. Note: This episode originally aired as In The Weeds Podcast Season 2 Episode 14.  Thank you to Franz and Remi for allowing me to use it as an episode on VicFoodStories! https://www.instagram.com/in_the_weeds_podcast https://www.patreon.com/intheweedspodcast https://pod.link/1510225731

Brian Bobiak is one of the owners of The Village. Jason Chan is one of the owners of The Village. This was an impromptu episode recorded live on IG (12/15/20). https://www.instagram.com/village.hq https://www.thevillagerestaurant.ca/ https://villagexpress.ca/

This week’s episode is just a reminder to support those in the community that you are a fan of. Please do what you can to #supportlocal https://www.vicfoodguys.ca https://www.instagram.com/vicfoodguys/

Dimitri Adamopoulos is one of the owners and host of Ithaka. Mama Maria is “the Queen of the Greek Kitchen” at Ithaka. https://www.instagram.com/ithakagreek/ https://www.ithakagreek.ca/ note: this episode was recorded prior to the temporary social lockdown

Brad Scissons is an owner and coffee roaster at Mile Zero Coffee Company. https://www.instagram.com/milezerocoffeeco/ https://www.milezerocoffee.com/

Anna Xian and Issac Han are the owners and operators of Flourish Beautea. https://www.instagram.com/flourishbeautea