Posts Tagged: Rocky Mountain Flatbread
Posted by Rob | June 27th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Last weekend I participated in the 2010 Ride to Conquer Cancer and 2,252 bike riders collectively we raised over $9.2 million for the BC Cancer Foundation. I personally raised $3,300 with five great Kits businesses helping me out.
Look closely at the photo below and you’ll see the Kitsilano.ca logo on blue on the back of our FLICK Cancer team jerseys.
If you’re interested in riding on a Kitsilano team next year, please be in touch by email.
Posted by Rob | May 24th, 2010 | Leave a comment »
The Ride to Conquer Cancer is four weeks away and this is your last chance to double dip and support a great cause while getting FREE advertising on Kitsilano.ca.
I’m offering any Kitsilano business that donates to my $2500 fund-raising goal a free month of advertising (we currently charge $200/month) on Kitsilano.ca for every $100 they donate. I figured it’s a win-win all around as you’re helping fight Cancer (and getting a personal tax receipt) while testing out Kitsilano.ca as a hyper-local marketing tool for their business.
To date, four generous Kitsilano businesses agreed with me an took advantage of the offer.
If you like the idea, you’ve got until June 1st to participate. Donate a minimum of $100 online to my fund-raising efforts and fire me an email letting me know who you are and what business you would like to advertise. You can either provide me with a 125×125 banner ad or I can have our designer throw one together for you.
Posted by Rob | May 17th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
On Tuesday, June 8th from 5:00pm to 9:30pm Rocky Mountain Flatbread is hosting a fundraising evening for Kitsilano’s own 3H Craftworks Society. Rocky Mountain Flatbread will donate 10% of the evening’s sales to 3H Craftworks Society.
Since 1966, Craftworks has worked with Vancouver adults who are unable to seek and maintain regular employment due to physical challenges and/or mental illness, to participate in meaningful work. Innovative programming includes personalized regular one-on-one support at home and diverse community partnerships.
Rocky Mountain Flatbread is located at 1876 West 1st Avenue and specializes in fresh, local, organic ingredients. There is an environmentally friendly kids’ play area, a fully licensed bar, a large summer patio and a car park a two minute walk away.
This event is part of Rocky Mountain Flatbread’s Community Fundraising Program which accounted for over $10,000 in funds for local clubs and organizations in 2009.
Posted by Kits | May 1st, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Living in Kitsilano means being blessed with a myriad of choices for restaurants. From Greek to Japanese, traditional to fusion…Kitsilano is a haven of good eats. Having recently figured out that the majority of my weight gain was due to wheat, I decided to kick the wheat habit as much as I could and try and find alternatives. A friend suggested that I phone my favourite places in Kits and ask them if they offered alternatives to wheat on their menu or if I could bring in my own rice/egg pastas for them to prepare. At first I thought this was a silly idea but as I ran out of options for food (and discovered how tricky it is to cook with rice flour), I picked up the phone and called a few restaurants. Here’s what I found…first of all…Kitsilano restaurant owners and managers are generally very open to just about anything. If it can be done, they’ll try to do it. A few places really stood out as pioneers in alternative eating. They include:
Panne Rizo Bakery Caf̩ Р
– Celiacs, gluten free and wheat free folks will know about Panne Rizo. This little bakery located at Cornwall and Walnut (between Maple and Cypress street) is a gold mine of baked goods, soups and other lovely things. My favourite…try the oreo-like cookies made without wheat. I couldn’t tell they weren’t oreo’s!
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Posted by Rob | April 14th, 2009 | Leave a comment »
In celebration of Earth Day, the UBC Bike Kitchen will be at Rocky Mountain Flatbread on West 1st on Sunday April 19th from noon to 6:00pm to tune your bike while your enjoy your pizza. Better yet, get the Bike Kitchen’s qualified technicians to teach you how to tune your bike while you’re there.
The Bike Kitchen is a project of the UBC Bike Co-op, with the support of the UBC Alma Mater Society and the Trek Program Centre. Any extra revenue raised by the Bike Kitchen is used by the UBC Bike Co-op to provide bicycle programs on campus and in the larger community – last year the Kitchen raised over $7,500.
Posted by Rob | March 25th, 2009 | Leave a comment »
To support action on climate change, millions of people across the world are turning off the lights on March 28th between 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm for Earth Hour. To celebrate Rocky Mountain Flatbread is offering a carbon-free, candlelight three-course meal. For $18 you get your choice of appetizers – lasagna, pasta, or pizza – and dessert.
Posted by Rob | September 26th, 2008 | Leave a comment »
Dominic, Suzanne and Oliver of Rocky Mountain Flatbread are hosting a Green Talks session on October 7th from 6:30 – 7:30pm and this time around the topic is garlic.
It is garlic planting season and if there is one thing we should plant in our gardens — it is garlic. It’s tastier, healthier and cheaper! So, to start off our Green Talks this season, Sharon Hanna, legendary Urban Gardener is coming in to speak with us. Here are the details at a glance:
During the one hour talk, you can:
Purchase 6 types of garlic — Kieve, Musica from Italy, Persian Star, Spanish Roja and Korean.
Learn how to sow your garlic in mid October, when you plant your spring flower bulbs (tulips and daffodils), and how to harvest it in mid July.
Sharon has been urban gardening here in Vancouver for over 30 years. Her busy life includes: writing for Canadian magazines; runing her own gardening business, Hotbeds; leading local edible school garden programs; supplying neighbours with the very best nursery plants as well as advise to grown their own food.
Head on down to Rocky Mountain Flatbread, buy some garlic, learn some great growing tips and enjoy their awesome flatbread pizza. Reservations aren’t necessary.
Posted by Rob | July 27th, 2008 | Leave a comment »
Calling to all Young Chefs.
Rocky Mountain Flatbread Co. is hosting Summer Crazy Cooking Classes on July 29th, 30th, and 31st from 2:30pm – 4:00pm. Kids can come and learn how to create and cook fun, healthy, delicious foods – including smoothies, berry crisp, fruit salsa, pizza, tacos, guacamole, dips, and yam fries.
Classes will be led by Julia O’Loughlin, student of Holistic Nutrition and Suzanne Fielden, Mum and founder of Rocky Mountain Flatbread Co. Classes are $75 and 6-12 year olds are welcome. To register your space call 604-730-0321 or email info@rockymountainflatbread.ca.
Posted by Rob | July 3rd, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Since June 2007, Rocky Mountain Flatbread (RMF) on York Avenue has been adding a voluntary 1% charge to diners bills and calling it a “carbon contribution”. I along with almost every other diner has been swallowing the fee happily even though the wait staff are happy to remove it if your disagree.
The menu explains that diners will be offsetting the environmental impact of producing their meal and that all proceeds will go to innovative solutions for climate protection, promotion of renewable energies and energy efficient technologies. Can’t argue with that.
RMF uses the money – $4,000 to date – to offset its own energy use by purchasing Renewable Energy Certificates or work with local schools on green campaigns. They’re currently working with Lord Tennyson Elementary - providing classrooms with energy efficient light bulbs and educating students on energy saving choices such as composting.
Smart move by RMF. By adding the carbon contribution to the bill rather than the menu prices, diners are able to make a conscious choice and feel good about it. For those of you that haven’t been to RMF yet – they use 100% organic ingredients and local products, compost all their food waste, and are outfitted with energy-reducing and reclaimed materials. And they’re the most kid-friendly restaurant in all of Kitsilano.
Posted by Rob | April 9th, 2008 | Leave a comment »
In celebration of Earth Day and Vancouver’s 30 Days of Sustainability throughout April, May and June, Rocky Mountain Flatbread Company (RMFC) is launching Green Talks. Green Talks is a one hour informal talk once a week at RMFC where social entrepreneurs share their stories of organizations they have founded or work for, which make a difference in our local and global community. These stories will provide inspiration and ideas of small changes that we can make in our everyday lives to change the world.
The first “Green Talks” will be presented by Karla Fester, the owner of Frog Friendly coffee on April 15th at 6:30pm. Fester will give us the low down on the good, the bad and the ugly of the coffee world and the evening will end with roasting your own wild coffee beans.
So come on down, have a bite to eat, listen to truly inspiring individuals and connect with social citizens who are taking actions to change the world. The full Green Talks schedule is available here.
