The Gourmet Warehouse is a unique specialty food and housewares emporium appealing to professionals and home cooks alike. The Gourmet Warehouse welcomes all to experience the delights of international cuisine in the comfort of your own home. Inspiration can be found throughout the aisles, on every shelf, even on the walls, and you never know which local chef is going to be there for the same purpose. Our team travels the world to fill the store with authentic and original products before they hit the mainstream market.more...See more text
In 2002, award-winning chef Caren McSherry did something many people thought couldn’t be done – she opened Vancouver’s largest wholesale culinary emporium stocked with “super unique” items she’d picked up during her world travels. She dubbed her ambitious venture Gourmet Warehouse. “When I first opened everyone thought I’d be broke in a month,” she says. “Fear was my best motivator; it made me work harder and made me stay on my toes.”
Today, Gourmet Warehouse sells upwards of 30,000 products sourced from across the globe, including oils, spices, cheeses, vinegars, nuts, unique gadgets and gizmos, as well as Le Creuset cookware. “In the late 1990s, foodies who really appreciated specialty ingredients were paying way too much,” she explains. “I wanted to offer premium gourmet food products at fair prices.”
Caren sees herself as a missionary of sorts, “bringing really good food and unique cooking equipment to home cooks and chefs." For example, Caren notes that Gourmet Warehouse was the first Vancouver store to stock balsamic pearls. “They look like black caviar and when you put them on top of a salad or appetizer and bite into them, they burst into your mouth with the sweet flavours of balsamic."
Once you've fully stocked your kitchen with housewares and ingredients from the Gourmet Warehouse, learn how to cook them by taking the East Vancouver store's weekend cooking lessons, covering a variety of different themes. They offer lessons in everything from vegetarian cooking, cheesemaking, sushi and more.
An emporium of all things cooking and food, Gourmet Warehouse is any home cook’s favourite weekend outing. Their 19,000 square-foot space houses aisle after aisle of all the kitchen tools and equipment you could ever need – at very reasonable prices. Store buyers scour the globe for hard-to-find and lesser-known brands. They even sell a small, but excellent selection of foodstuffs, perfect for stocking stuffers and hostess gifts.
For dads who love to cook, grill or have a cocktail, Gourmet Warehouse is like a giant toy store for the master chef in your household. From kitchen accessories to high-end cookware and gadgets, spices to icing, your executive chef will be equipped to cook you a five-course meal tonight!