Heads up fashion ninjas, I found a fun new way for you to spend your night—Sabering champagne at Bearfoot Bistro in Whistler. Head down with a group of friends or surprise your special love to a night you really won’t forget. Order any bottle of bubbly (our pick was Chamdeville) at the elegant restaurant, and you’ll be led downstairs to the chilled wine celler for a lesson and a bit of history on sabering. Wine Director Oli Bureau explained it well—slide the saber along the seam of the champagne bottle a few times and like tossing a frisbee, lightly flick your wrist as you hit the cork and pow…explosion. If you get good enough, you can use an excalibur or spartan sword and pretend you’re from the movie 300. Don’t worry the blades are dull, so even after a few glasses, it’s safe. Take the cork in a little black box as a good luck charm and souvenir, then head upstairs and finish the bottle at the lit-up ice bar.

Staying for dinner? Choose from a modern Canadian cuisine menu, created by 30-year-old executive chef Melissa Craig, that includes Vancouver Island black cod or Carmen Creek buffalo rib-eye in the dinning room or the mouth watering game burger at the chilled champagne bar.

As if this place hasn’t impressed you enough, they’ve just added a brand new Belvedere ice room, a -15 degree walk in vodka tasting room with it’s launch party happening tomorrow night. I might just have to make my way up there this weekend to give you the dish on that. Stay tuned!

So for those of you looking for something different to do, I found it, and it’s Bearfoot Bistro.