Just two hours north of Victoria, Parksville and Qualicum Beach offer lots of varied dining opportunities, beautiful scenery and pampered relaxation
I’ve always had a sense of wanderlust and in 2024 I was fortunate to be able to explore many far-flung destinations and remote wilderness locales, making it one of my most memorable years yet for travel.
The bonus was being able to reconnect with a childhood friend, from Ontario, who joined me on this final fun fling that focussed mostly on food. Most of my trips this past year were solo or group tours with other travel writers, lasting anywhere from five to 10 days. Immediately after arriving in Parksville, we checked into the Sunrise Ridge Waterfront Resort for a two-night stay in one of the resort’s waterfront condos.
In the winter, until mid-February, the Beach Club Resort restaurant offers three-course dinners in festively decorated winter domes equipped with heaters. The three domes, each one able to seat six people, are illuminated at night, creating cosy, winter-wonderland-like private spaces for diners, but if guests want to enjoy the Strait of Georgia views, they should opt for lunch instead.
But after moving to Canada in 2016 with his B.C.-born wife, he bought a Qualicum Beach cafe and opened French Press Roasters. The business expanded to a second location in Parksville a year and a half ago. Both locations roast the coffee beans Perkins buys from around the world and roasts on site. “The more you cook something the more you are going to lose the inherent character flavours of the place you got that product from. The idea we try to do is to keep those characteristics, so if I take my coffee and roast it till it’s a lot darker, it’s more difficult to say this is a coffee from Kenya, this is a coffee from Brazil, from Ethiopia.
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