Island Taste Trail:
Table for Two Giveaway!
We’re celebrating the Island Taste Trail by asking you to share the stories that make local dining so special!
- Share a short story or caption about your favourite experience at any participating Island Taste Trail restaurant.
- It can be a great meal, a memorable moment, or a staff member who made your visit unforgettable.
- Tag Van Isle Taste Trail and the restaurant in your Facebook or Instagram post.
- $100 in dining dollars (2 × $50 gift cards) for the winning shout out!
- PLUS: If you shout out a staff member by name, that person wins a $50 gift card to another local spot so they can feel your love!
- Parksville Qualicum Beach Prize — Friday, November 21
- Comox Valley Prize — Monday, November 24
SUPPORT LOCAL RESTAURANTS YEAR ROUND!
The campaign is over for 2025 but we hope you’ll head to local eateries to share expertly crafted local dishes and drinks.
Whether you’re dining with friends, family, or new acquaintances, locally owned and operated restaurants, cafés, bakeries, breweries and wineries are places that share tastes inspired by #VancouverIsland. Their creativity makes culinary scene in Parksville Qualicum Beach and the Comox Valley vibrant!
Discover UNIQUE TASTES INSPIRED BY VanCOUVER ISLAND
Each participating restaurant, café and eatery will provide a pairing inspired by Vancouver Island! When you head out to any of the participating businesses, you’ll be supporting the web of Island based businesses that make the Island taste great! Whether it’s local farms and fishers, local ice cream makers or sausage makers, local wineries, breweries, cideries and distilleries – there are foodies growing, making, roasting and producing the ingredients and beverages that inspire the chefs and cooks behind each dining experience.
Check out the growing list of suppliers and makers supported through this campaign!
Click to find lists of participating businesses in each of these communities.
2025 Presenting Partners:
Artisan Tasting Experiences
Our lush Vancouver Island inspires not just chefs, but also artisan producers, distillers, vintners baristas, bartenders, mixologists and more!
Check out the places that are offering tasting experiences of locally handcrafted wines, artisanal brews, local ciders and spirits. Discover the passion and dedication that goes into every sip.
Special Dining Experiences
Every dining experience brings something special. Our region’s chefs will be working with local farms, fishermen and producers to create pairings that reflect the abundance Vancouver Island has to offer.
Each eatery will offer a pairing: sometimes those will be a main course featured with a local beverage. Other pairings include two dishes that compliment each other like a soup and sandwich.
Every pairing will highlight uniquely Vancouver Island tastes.
Building Community
When you support locally owned businesses, you make a difference for the passionate people that work in that business and the other local businesses that supply them.
For every $100 spent with a BC local restaurant, $68 is re-circulated back into our BC economy.
Each and every local buying decision helps support local foodpreneurs, farmers, fishers, makers, producers and harvesters. It has an incremental to our local agri-food economy – and it tastes great!
Check out the growing list of suppliers and makers supported through this campaign!