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You Want Some Polenta with Your Polenta? We’ve Got Good News for You

Di Beppe celebrates Polenta Fest with—you guessed it—polenta aplenty. 

By Stacey McLachlan /

Di Beppe celebrates Polenta Fest with—you guessed it—polenta aplenty. 

It is almost impossible to describe polenta in an appealing way: “corn goop” may be technically accurate, but the words don’t truly capture the textural, comfort-food magic of Italian grits done right. And oh, Di Beppe does it right, and on repeat, with their new one-night-only Polenta Festival menu.

The humble Venetian staple will be served up a multitude of ways for the multi-course, family-style feast (aperitifs and wine included) happening Sunday, April 28: baked into bite-sized cakes and topped with tender baccalà, transformed into dessert, or drizzled out onto six-foot wooden planks to firm up and then doled out in slices alongside veal and rapini.

It’s a night out that likely won’t get us any closer to finding an elegant way to describe polenta…but it’s a pretty delicious way to try.

THE DEETS
Two seatings—5:00 and 8:00
Sunday, April 28, 2019
Di Beppe, 8 W Cordova
Tickets $79, available at DiBeppe.com

Stacey McLachlan

Stacey McLachlan

Stacey is the editor-in-chief of Vancouver magazine, and a senior editor for our sister mag, Western Living. She's also the author of Vanmag's monthly Know It All column—if you've got a question or wildly unsubstantiated rumour about our city, she wants to get to the bottom of it: [email protected]