Foodies of the Year

Meet Our 2020 Foodies of the Year

Meet the 10 tastemakers shaping how we eat in the West right now.

By Western Living /

They’re serving wine in sneakers, making it easy (and downright cool) to eat your greens and eschewing €œclean food€ for a delicious mess: your 2020 Foodies of the Year winners are bringing the fun back to food, and making Western Canada a culinary wonderland in the process. These are your 2020 Foodies of the Year winners. (Want to see who else was on our judges’ radar for this honour? Check out our amazing 2020 FOTY finalists.)

Cyrilles Koppert

Chef/Owner, Partake, Edmonton

Warren Barr and Lily Verney-Downey

Owners, Pluvio, Ucluclet, B.C.

Julie Van Rosendaal

Author of Dirty Food, Calgary

Brian and Christina Skinner

Chefs and Owners, Frankie We Salute You, Kelowna, B.C.

Tarn and Toom Tayanunth

Owners, Dumpling Drop, Victoria

Shiva Reddy

Executive Wine Director, Savio Volpe Group, Vancouver

Darren and Jody Hollett

Brewers, House of Funk Brewing, North Vancouver

Shira McDermott and Janna Bishop

Co-founders, Flourist, Vancouver

Frankie Harrington, Justin Witcher and Shawn Layton

Co-owners, Como Taperia, Vancouver

Karri Schuermans

Owner, Chambar; and Board Member, Vancouver Economic Commission

Western Living

Western Living

The editorial team at Western Living loves nothing more than a perfectly designed space, place or thing: and we’re here to tell you about it. Email us your pitches at [email protected].