What to do and see in Comox, 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!

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.

Voted BC's Best Market of 2015 byt the BC Association of Farmers' Markets! 100's of varities of veggies and fruits, meat, poultry and eggs, fish and seafood, baking of all kinds, preserves, honey, yogurt and cheese, healthy body products, hot ready to eat food, wine, cider and spirits. Our Markets have become the Comox Valley's destination for local food. Fresh food, fun, discovery, and connecting with your local farmers and food producers. We produce our weekly Markets to create healthy food networks that sustain our land, our community, and our bodies. The Comox Valley Farmers Market Association hosts a year round Saturday Market, plus extra markets through the summer on Wednesdays and Sundays. Check the website for the 'next market' or for more info.

We are located right in the heart of downtown Comox, with a friendly team waiting to serve you! Our tasting lounge is custom built, featuring green building techniques, local and upcycled materials. Our craft beer is brewed onsite, and we take pride in combining traditional recipes and newer ingredients to produce well balanced beers. Our menu consists of Aussie Meat Pies, sandwiches and snacks. We have two patios, one of which has great views of the glacier.