Swallow Tail Product Review

Product Review

Swallow tail’s product mix is vast and customized menu offerings among its starters, main course, beverages and deserts.

Swallow tail is an assemble of Vancouver Chefs, Food nerds bringing up Pop up Restaurants, secret suppers and food tours. It is not merely a restaurant, but offer catering services. The company is basically for food and wine lovers, who want to have an adventure of food and wine experiences. They offer differentiated and diversified menu from BC foraged ingredients. It mainly offers wild seasonal dishes in collaboration of local and international chefs.  This company offers Food and Wine tours.

The company offers various tours and also offers catering and event planning for special occasions.

Wine Tours:  serves different kinds of wines by visiting many wineries in BC. They also produce wines in small quantities and is being sold to the restaurants directly.

Gourmet Tours: Focus on the fine dining in the wilderness. It includes Mushroom hunting and Dungeness Crab Fishing. Company take people on foraging trips of these hunting events. Also, company indulges with many top Vancouver Chefs to bring BC local and wild ingredients to life.

Custom Gourmet Tours: experiences for groups, company’s, birthdays or reunions. Their activities on gourmet tours range from walking to cycling to snow shoring and lounging on the sun while being fed really well.

Pop-up Restaurants: is a kind of dining experience, featuring secret locations, star chefs, experimental concepts: people call them underground dining event, secret supper clubs, open a few days only. They explain it as. “this is where wild food meets art, a new creature is created. There is nothing like it.”

Swallow Tail Menu: Swallow Tail menus are according to the BC local, organic producers from beets to beef. The main focus is on the season, the menu is according to the seasonal requirements with the most flavored packed ingredients. Swallow tail work with many different local and international chefs, so menus are extremely varied.  Each is created to fit a unique tour or event.

The next thing in menu is the wild edibles. Wild seasonal menus with ingredients featured such as chanterelles in the fall, fern fiddleheads in the spring, Dungeness crab in winter, local berries in summer like huckleberries, salmonberries and thimbleberries.

Example of Menu

BC Wild Spring Foraged Feast

Starter: Elderflower & sage blossom gin cocktail with tasting plate of gruyere and cedar smoked nectarines, picked ramps, clover greens

Salad: Cedar grilled romaine with chive blossom, deep fried caper berries, shaved pecorino & pancetta.  Drizzled with olive oil & lemon

Soup: Green pea, asparagus & wood sorrel soup with Oregon truffle oil and BC Tiger blue cheese

Main: Butter sage seared BC halibut, wild watercress and blackened tomato coulee and caramelized pepper onions Delicious BC halibut, fresh local and organic food. A sampling from our Swallow Tail menu, a taste of what you'd get from a Swallow Tail pop-up restaurant in Vancouver.