Things to do in Comox Valley, Vancouver Island: The Best Food & Drink

Island Gourmet Trails offers delicious day tours within the Comox Valley. This culinary adventure is planned to cover different trails throughout the Valley. Tours are customized to suit the group’s specific interest: stops may include farmer’s markets, bakeries, cheese dairies, organic farms, shellfish farms, wineries,coffee roysters etc. You can end your day with a gourmet dinner in a local restaurant or a cooking class. Those culinary tours are designed to help you experience the Valley in all its splendour and its flavour!

The Comox Valley is a treasure trove of natural splendor and amazing gourmet food and drink. Join us for a pleasant afternoon exploring the abundance of regional delights. Along a scenic drive we will visit charming wineries, artisanal distilleries and farms. Then savour a picnic of local cheese, seasonal delicacies and local delights in a spectacular natural location. Then an epic waterfall!

Creating an interesting variety of craft ciders and fruit wines from BC fruit. In the Cider House, try a complimentary tasting of unique dry ciders. Please check the website for our Tasting Room hours. Comox Valley Farmers Market on Saturday Campbell River Pier Street Market on Sundays. A family owned and operated craft winery/cidery and blueberry farm, located 5 minutes from downtown Courtenay. Visit our Tasting Room and taste our small batch award winning wines and ciders.

Wayward Distillery is a True Craft distillery located in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Balancing tradition with creativity, Wayward is the first distillery in Canada using honey as the base for all of its spirits. With this as a curious starting point, the only obvious direction to take is an unpredictable one. Our signature Unruly Vodka and Unruly Gin are beautiful, hand-crafted examples of what can happen when unruly people meet unruly bees. Couple this with our seasonally changing, ultra-small batch experimental Wayward Order Line and you will truly understand our need to break moulds and blaze trails. Welcome to our Wayward life. Welcome to Wayward Distillery.

Fossil Beach Farm is a private 80 acre waterfront working farm. We offer glamping in our fully finished bell tents overlooking the Salish Sea and fresh cider fermented from our on site and other Hornby orchards. Our tasting room offers 5 different ciders, experimental tap, and non-alcoholic choices available in tasting flights, growlers, or prepackaged to be enjoyed in our picnic area or to go.

Coastal Black is a family owned and operated fruit winery and meadery. All our wines are hand-crafted on site with our own berries and honey. Come for a visit and enjoy a tasting and pizza!Our own Brick Oven Italian Style Pizza is now open for the summer season! Our new menu is posted on our Facebook wall - please, come join us for lunch and wine.We would love to welcome EVERYONE through our doors at Coastal Black, but being a winery, it is more of an adult oriented environment. We don't mind families coming and bringing children, we simply ask that they be respectful of the other patrons and try to maintain the relaxing and peaceful atmosphere. Also because the Winery is more adult focussed, we don't have child specific amenities (ie: juice, highchairs, toys etc) so please be aware of this as well.Thanks so much for your time, and we hope to see you out for some delicious wine!

In September 2019, Beaufort became the first organically certified vineyard on Vancouver Island. Winemaker Freya Timmermans crafts the vintage in small batches for a unique expression of our Island’s cool coastal climate. Expect youthful, fruit-driven reds, and lively, aromatic whites. Please see website, call, or email ahead for up-to-date info on store hours and tastings in 2020.

In the heart of the Comox Valley, on a slope facing the Georgia Strait, 40 Knots Vineyard & Estate Winery crafts wines distinctly shaped by a windswept, sun-soaked microclimate. Named for the gale force winds that often strike the coast, 40 Knots embraces its unique microclimate, adorning its label with swallows that frequent the vineyard and depict home to a sailor. With wines like Whitecaps, Sea Haven, and Spindrift, the connection to the wind and sea is undeniable. 40 Knots was first established in 2005, by a retired Tug Boat Captain who hand planted over 50,000 vines on glacier till soil in a micro-climate hotter than its surrounding area and facing the Salish Sea. Root stock was brought in from the Champagne and Cote D'Beaune regions of France of Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Gamay Noir. Additionally hybrids such as the French Pinot Auxerrois and German Siegerrebe and Schoenberger were planted. Owners Brenda Hetman-Craig, and Layne Robert Craig continue to nurture this terroir with environmentally ethical farming practices. 40 Knots employs the creative, innovative and esteemed Chief Wine Maker Matt Dumayne of Okanagan Crush pad. 40 Knots welcomes visitors to come and taste their wines in their cellar tasting lounge, tour the vineyard and cellar and picnic in the beautiful vineyard terrace.

Brewery and lounge. Award winning beer available by the glass and growler fills. Exploring the limits of honest beer.