Gluten-Free Events Calendar
If it’s gluten free and happening in Victoria, Vancouver Island or the Gulf Islands, you’ll find it listed here! From tastings to contests, farmer’s markets to food trucks – this is your calendar to Gluten-Free Paradise! Join Victoria’s Gluten-Free Foodies and add a new restaurant – and possibly a new gluten-free friend – to your repertoire!
Victoria Cheese and Meat Artisan Food and Beverage Festival
- DATE: Saturday, September 10 11:00 am to 9:00 pm with tastings at 11am, 3pm & 7pm
- INFO & TICKETS: victoria.cheeseandmeatfestival.com
- VENUE: Car Shop at Bayview (253 Esquimalt Road – access via Catherine Street)
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- Explore the smell, tastes, and textures of the Cheese and Meat Festival. Taste your way through international and local artisan food and liquor samples. All guests will be given a small charcuterie board upon entry that will allow for samples to be placed on the board while vendors describe their offerings. The Festival also showcases a 60/40 food to beverage mix.
Grimm’s Fine Foods Will Be There! Gluten-Free Goodness We Can Trust!
All of Grimm’s Fine Foods’ meat products are gluten-free, soy-free and made without added MSG. A huge selection of their products are also lactose-free – check the ingredient label to be sure. Learn more about Grimm’s here …
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Endless Recipe Ideas!
Let’s meet up and try one of the most elusive of gluten-free cuisines – celiac-safe Japanese food!
Room for only 7 attendees.
Tuesday, May 16 at 6pm
Ebizo Japanese Restaurant
604 Broughton St
(250) 383-3234
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Email ellen@theceliacscene.com to RSVP
Thank you to Pure Lovin’ for their donation of delicious organic, gluten-free, vegan chocolates as a very special ‘Treat to Go!’
Based on the great experience of one of our most intrepid Gluten-Free Foodies, I popped in to speak with Ebizo about their ability to serve celiac diners.
Server Nigh-Yee readily identified which rolls, nigiri and sashimi are already gluten free, or could be adapted to be so. They can furnish us with gluten-free soy sauce.
I asked that on this occasion, that the chefs be made aware that our group requires 100% gluten-free food and to take any extra precautions to necessary to assure our safety.
Ebizo is a small restaurant so they only take reservations for groups of seven or less. This means this meet up is quite exclusive and that if you are interested, best to sign up soon!
Arigato!
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Pictures from the Meet Up!
A very special appearance by Pure Lovin’ Chocolate at VIDEA’s Winter Fair
Enjoy handcrafted Holiday treats for everyone on your list. View full selection.
Saturday, November 25 11am to 4pm Details
Fernwood Community Centre 1240 Gladstone Ave
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- Can’t attend in person? Pure Lovin’ offers a $9 Delivery in Victoria. $15 Flat Rate Shipping Canada & US. Shop online.
Pure Lovin’ Chocolate is an artisan chocolate company located in Victoria, BC. We were inspired to create unique and delicious treats you can’t find anywhere else, without the common allergens that make it difficult for many people to enjoy the simple delight of high quality chocolate, so we keep all of our products vegan, gluten free, soy free, and free of artificial flavours and colours. Every one of our delicious treats are made in-house by hand, crafted by combining fair trade chocolate, and organic and natural ingredients. Our one of a kind selections of artisan chocolates are not to be missed!
2 Pure Lovin’ Locations to Serve You in Victoria
Pure Lovin’ Chocolate at Fan Tan Alley
3 Fan Tan Alley (facing Pandora)
Monday – Sunday: 11am – 5:30pm
This location only: soft-serve vegan ‘ice cream’ in hand-made waffle cones – chocolate dipped or with you choice of sauces and toppings made in house. Watch how gluten-free waffle cones are made!
Pure Lovin’ Chocolate on Douglas
2020 A Douglas Street
Tuesday to Saturday: 11am – 5pm (closed Sun-Mon)
250-590-0414
- For Good Measure • Mother Nature’s • Pepper’s Foods • The Grinning Goat Calgary • The Local General Store • Vegan Supply Metro Vancouver
Custom Orders, Weddings & Corporate Events
- Whether you’re planning an event like a wedding or birthday party, or you need a little extra something to impress that someone special, we’re happy to offer custom orders!
Samples of Favours & Dessert Platters
- Gift Sets • Wedding & Party Favours • Chocolate Platters • Dessert Platters • Birthday & Seasonal Gifts. All of our delights are packaged with the utmost care and attention to detail in sophisticated and elegant packaging. Shipping available.
- Pure Lovin’ Chocolate was imagined, created and is now operated by a mother (Cyndy) and daughter (Leah) team. Leah fell in love with cooking at an early age, while helping Cyndy create delicious, healthy meals in the kitchen of their log home in rural BC. This is also where Cyndy taught her the art of confectionery: making Sponge Toffee, Brittle, Caramel and other treats for special occasions. Their collections are hand-made with the most important ingredient of all – love!
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- Kristine, Veg Girl RD
- EAT Magazine Fan Tan Alley
- Local Adventurer – Best Places To Eat Victoria
- CTV Vancouver Island Foodie Friday
- EAT Magazine Valentine’s Day
- East Van Vegan
- Senior Living Magazine
TESTIMONIALS:
- “I used Pure Lovin’ Chocolate to send my clients and team members their holiday gifts and I was super satisfied! The process was painless – they took care of delivery and gift cards across Canada – and everyone who received a gift set raved about it. Thanks Pure Lovin’ Chocolate for making me look great!”
- I love you you, ladies! You made my vegan wedding absolutely amazing. The chocolate-coated “honeycomb” was pretty much the best thing I’ve ever tasted.”
Enjoy baguettes, bars, biscuits, breads, buns, cinnamon buns, coffee cakes, cookies, croissants, filled pastries, loaves (banana bread & orange cranberry,) muffins, pies, sourdough, and best of all – MINI DONUTS!
How to order!
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Market & Event Appearances!
- B-glutenfreevictoria ongoing appearances throughout greater Victoria! CLICK HERE!
- TODAY’S APPEARANCES!
RUTH KING ELEMENTARY SPRING FAIR
Saturday, April 6 – 10am – 3pm
2764 Jacklin Road
Ruth King Elementary is happy to announce our first ever Spring Craft Fair Fundraiser. This is an outdoor family friendly event taking place in our school field rain or shine. We will have a wide variety of local vendors & artisans, a food truck, lawn games, a raffle and entertainment for the kids. We are so excited and hope to see you there. Entry by donation. Cash only event. Details here …
Listen to Tanja on ‘A Canadian Celiac Podcast!’
Tanja Blondin, Owner / Operator of B-glutenfreevictoria, has been baking for as long as she can remember. Her German heritage continues to inform the food that she creates.
With hospitality in her DNA, Tanja has done it all from baking to catering, always with the best in presentation.
When her daughter was born, Tanja started a cake business that allowed her to work from home. The business was so successful that it grew into a full catering and pastry shop in Ontario. From there, she went on to manage restaurants, including the Starbucks that she transferred to in Sidney, to be closer to family.
Seeking a change from the coffee business, Tanja assumed a position in the bakery department of Sidney Thrifty Foods. It was around this time that she began experiencing health problems that lead her, and her daughter, to be diagnosed with celiac disease. Her employer tried to accommodate her condition with a move to the cake decorating department, but the proximity to airborne gluten flour was too much for her. Tanja had to resign, but that does not mean she stopped baking. Their loss was our gain!
What to do with decades of experience baking European pastries? Tanja reimagined them using gluten-free, organic ingredients, freshly milled at the dedicated gluten-free Millstone Farm Organics in North Saanich:
- almond flour • baking powder • brown rice flour • buckwheat flour • chia • buckwheat flour • eggs (fresh!) • flax seeds • millet flour • potato starch • psyllium husk • oats (pure) • quinoa • sorghum flour • sliced almonds • tapioca starch • teff flour • xanthan gum • white rice flour
Tanja adapted her favourite recipes to gluten free in her dedicated kitchen, and set up a booth on Sunday’s Mary Winspear Centre to test the market. The response has been so positive that she has gone on to create a ‘B-glutenfreevictoria Food Trailer’ – a first for Vancouver Island and beyond!
View the possibilities below, order online through bglutenfreevictoria.square.site, or stop by her table during her busy market schedule this summer.