1st place at the Empress Hotel, Victoria Festival of Trees

Posted by on Nov 25, 2009 in Innkeepers Blog |

Our team ( Amanda and Jill,event coordinators, Sharan Gallery Gift Shop and Britta our sommelier) decorated for the Festival of Trees at the Empress, we won first place before the Empress (2sd) and the Times Colonist(3rd)! This is a fund raising for the BC Children Hospital and the goal this year is to raise enough money to open a pediatric center in Victoria so children and parents don’t have to travel to Vancouver. Our team was so excited to win first place!...

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Sunday Lunch sample menu

Posted by on Nov 4, 2009 in Menus | 0 comments

Chantrelle Mushroom Soup(9) With butter poached Hedgehog Mushrooms. Sooke Harbour House Salad (8) Foraged Chanterelle Mushroom and Leak Quiche (13) With a Hilary’s white grace mornay, sweet pickles, and an herbal salad. Panfried Hecate Strait Halibut (13) Accompanied by an heirloom tomato, cucumber and nasturtium salad, fruit sage and begonia vinaigrette, and toasted walnuts. Prices are not including beverages, taxes or gratuities. Please be so kind to inform your server...

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Local Special dinner sample menu

Posted by on Nov 4, 2009 in Menus | 0 comments

Sooke Harbour House Salad Certified organic greens and blossoms from our garden tossed in a White peach and Lemon Verbena vinaigrette Or Spot Shrimp and Laminaria Broth Soup with fresh Kidney beans,  roasted corn and wild  mushrooms Pacific Lingcod With a sunflower seed and Panko crust, blistered Cherry tomato and cucumber slad, fried green tomatoes, basil and goat cheese croquettes, Spot shrimp and Chanterelle cream, chive flower nasturtium oil Or Roasted Berkshire Pork...

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Karen Lancey

Posted by on Nov 4, 2009 in Artist Directory, Metal Art | 0 comments

Karen Lancey was born on the South Coast of England. Her family immigrated to Canada 5 years later where she grew up in Calgary, Alberta. Art was always a very strong subject throughout childhood and she later went on to attend the Alberta College of Art and Design, majoring in Commercial Art, jewellery making and ceramics. Karen now lives in Victoria with her 2 children. Karen’s life sized metal mermaids have become her trademark around Victoria. Working in 3 dimensions...

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Patrice Plank

Posted by on Nov 4, 2009 in Artist Directory, Pencil Art | 0 comments

      Patrice Plank, who calls Victoria, B.C., Canada her home, has been an artist most of her life.  Inspired by nature, Parice tries to capture the beauty surrounding her.  Her favorite subjects include birds, butterflies, dragonflies, animals, marine life and flowers.      In the past her primary media was traditionally oils and acrylics.  She has since fallen in love with clayboard scratch art and has been dedicated to this medium for the past seven years.  Patrice...

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