About Us

​Our Founders

Doug & Jewel Taylor are serial entrepreneurs that have lived and worked together for over 40 years. They met at a restaurant on the water that Jewel had started after travelling internationally for 5 years. Doug had also travelled internationally and was playing music in Miami before coming to Vancouver where he offered to play for her restaurant guests. The rest as they say is history.
They started Taste Vancouver Food Tours out of their love for good food, hospitality and fun entertainment. “We also knew that having amazing tour guides would be a vital part of making the food tour not only delicious but really fun. For that reason, we hired professional actors and improv comedians that also have a passion for great food to guide our tours. They add a level of fun and spontaneity to our tours that our guests rave about. Hence our tag line “More Yum more Fun”!

​Thanks for visiting our site and we hope you will join us for a great foodie tour adventure with friends, family or your co-workers soon!
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Operations Management

​Maria Bellamy is our operations manager and makes sure the business runs smoothly. With a background in tourism & hospitality, Maria has the perfect combination of skills to manage the day-to-day operations at Taste Vancouver Food Tours. From assigning tour guides to connecting with our restaurant partners and managing our booking system, Maria is the glue of all we do!

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Our Tour Guides

Brent Hirose
Senior Tour Guide

Hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, a storied city with the most restaurants per-capita in Canada, He's always had a great love of food and history, and loves spreading that love in his new hometown of Vancouver. Food is best enjoyed with good company and conversation, and Brent aims to make every tour as filled with interesting knowledge and fun times as possible, while sharing his passion for the city & the many delicious foods on offer on each tour. 

Tia Glenn-Cooke
Senior Tour Guide

Tia originally hails from from Northern Ontario. Since moving to BC in 2007, she’s continually hunting out new food & drinks, and doing her best to imitate her favourite flavours at home.Tia performs improv and stand up comedy all over the city. She believes the beautiful marriage of good stories and great food is what makes Taste Vancouver the best way to introduce new friends to her favourite places. . ​

Sean Sonier
Tour Guide​

Sean LOVES food.
He often finds himself talking about his next meal while eating his current one.
One of the best feelings in the world is discovering a new restaurant. .

It's probably the Maritimer in him that loves to shares stories and food with family, friends and complete strangers! Vancouver is rich with history and filled with yummy eats and Sean is thrilled to share that all with you. ​​ 

Anna Everett
Tour Guide

Anna loves working with Taste Vancouver and showing people great spots around Vancouver! Having grown up in Vancouver, she particularly enjoys getting the chance to show others her hometown and telling them a bit about Vancouver's interesting history. 

Liam
Tour Guide

 Liam grew up in Toronto, Ontario, but his heart was stolen by Vancouver when he moved here at fifteen. He couldn't stay away, and is now an undergraduate student at UBC, constantly on the hunt for new experiences and delicious food. He loves being a guide at Taste Vancouver because he gets a chance to guide new people through their first experiences of the food and history of Vancouver which continue to blow him away even though he knows them so well. Also, he'll take any opportunity he can to spend time walking around beautiful historic streets and telling stories.