Photos: VanMag’s Maui Pop-Up Party

Front-row seats to our Maui x Vancouver mash-up.

As the cold weather continues to settle in Vancouver (Hello, winter!), we can’t help but dream of escaping to a tropical destination—which is exactly why we’re taking a look back at our Maui pop-up party. Guests joined us at Beach Bay Café where they sampled Hawaiian cocktails and two feature poke dishes from Kā’anapali Beach Hotel’s Chef Tom Muromoto and Beach Bay’s own Chef Michael Winning. And at the end of the night, one lucky winner received an all-inclusive trip for two to Maui. Here’s a peek at our favourite moments:Executive Director of Kā’anapali Beach Resort, Shelley Kekuna, with VanMag’s General Manager, Dee Dhaliwal at the November event.Guests were anxious for the Hawaiian feast to begin.Kā’anapali Beach Hotel’s Chef Tom Muromoto and Beach Bay Café’s Chef Michael Winning hard at work.Before the poke competition, guests enjoyed canapes from each chef. Here, Muromoto’s braised short ribs served alongside a kona kampachi and pohole fern tartar.Chef Muromoto’s spicy ahi tuna poke with lava salt.Our #TasteKanapali contest winner, Naqaash Pirani, and partner Natasha Datoo with CISL‘s Kasey Wilson.Vancouver magazine’s Neal McLennan and Dale McCarthy.Chef Winning’s wild B.C. salmon poke with flavours of roasted and sweet ginger, sesame, cilantro, lemon and tamari.Our City Tonight‘s Jim Gordon and Leeta Liepins.Chef Winning’s ginger-cumin-and-orange-glazed pork tenderloin and grilled octopus leg in a tomato chipotle sauce.Shelley Kekuna congratulates Linda McGrath, a Beach Bay Café regular—and winner of the all-inclusive trip to Maui.

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