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Vancouver Is Awesome

Were you one of the 1800+ people that attended the 8th Annual(!) Spot Prawn Festival last Saturday at Fisherman’s Wharf? The skies might have been dark and stormy but the weather held off of the patrons to sample some fresh off the boat spot prawns, buy some to take...

Montecristo Magazine

Spot Prawn Season First catch. For the next six weeks, B.C. spot prawns take centre stage on the menus of many of the city’s top restaurants. The first fresh prawns arrived at False Creek Fishermen’s Wharf this past Saturday with much fanfare, as chefs and spot prawn...

Eater

Hundreds of people came down to False Creek Fisherman's Wharf at the weekend to celebrate the first spot prawns of the season at the Chef's Table Society of BC's Spot Prawn festival. In numbers: 1693 tickets were sold, 5079 prawns were served up, more than 2000 people...

Vancouver Courier

Prawn of time The spot prawn season is kicking off in style with a full day’s celebration planned for May 9. Hard to believe but it wasn’t that long ago most Vancouverites had never even seen these plump, sweet crustaceans as they were unceremoniously exported live,...

Vancouver Courier

Want to really impress Mom? Surprise her with a visit to False Creek Fisherman’s Wharf from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. this Saturday, May 10, for the annual Spot Prawn Festival presented by the Chefs’ Table Society of B.C. Tickets are on sale now for the Spot Prawn Boil while...