EcoLux☆Lifestyle: ‘Dinner with a View’ Domes Delight Diners

At dinner time, you are fetched from the cocktail sanctuary. Each dome seats six and is expertly decorated. Using lighting, textiles, and plants inspired by ecosystems around the world, desert tundra, lush,  grasslands, as well as boreal and arid forests are represented. Upon getting seated, the hostess explains that each dome is put together by hand. These domes are transported from venue to venue and will eventually leave Vancouver to delight diners elsewhere.

Dinner was a three-course plant-based meal. Inspired by the wilds of BC, Chef Paul Moran enlisted his family and friends to help forage ingredients. The remainder was pulled from cellars and farms across the Fraser Valley, as well as Cranbrook, Bamfield, and Tofino.

First to arrive was a beetroot salad. The bitter earthy flavour of the beets was complemented by sweet apples and crunchy sunchoke chips. For the main, ginger and soy glazed crispy tofu plated carefully on a bed of strikingly black forbidden rice was brought to the table. To wrap up the experience was a dessert that delightfully refreshing and light: vanilla and lime marinated pineapple, topped with coconut mousse, and mint leaves.

Dining is no longer just about the food; diners want to experience something unique and social media worthy. Events such as Dinner in the Sky offered guests two dining options: ‘Sweet and Savoury’ or ‘Dinner in the Sky’ to choose from. It operated in 2017 and 2018, and though there is no indication of when the event will return, it was located in West Vancouver or, more specifically, suspended 100-feet above West Vancouver! A classic Vancouver dining experience is Diner en Blanc. Thousands of white-clad Vancouverites converge upon a secret location for the largest and most glamourous picnic of the summer.