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Sanafir Restaurant & Lounge
Mar09Sanafir - Arabic for 'meeting place' – invites guests into a buzz of energy where 25-foot high ceilings, social seating, a high energy kitchen and exotic lounge rock your casbah with tapas from the near and far East.With 130 seats on two levels, plus a 12-seat bar, the room has been designed to allow for a variety of dining options: intimate dining throughout the first level amidst hand...
Society Dining Lounge
Jan14Society Dining Lounge is where you can expect the unexpected. This positively unpredictable venue where guests can expect the unexpected, opened in Vancouver’s Yaletown October 2009. Like Los Angeles’ sultry, electric dining lounges that stirred its original inspiration, Society is a place where opposites attract, creating all-new pleasures...
Main Street's Cascade Room Serves Up European Comforts
Nov13By Leslie HorneLocated at 2616 Main Street, The Cascade Room is the latest addition to the growing Main Street restaurant scene. Situated next door to its sister restaurant, Habit, this gastropub-style eatery is quickly becoming a popular hangout among local and destination diners alike.The restaurant features a diverse selection of European food styles prepared classically alongside West C...
Chef's Special: Colleen Mc Clean of Executive Chef of The Irish Heather, Salty Tongue, Shebeen and Salt
Sep17Who: Colleen McClean What: Executive Chef of The Irish Heather Gastropub / Salty Tongue Café / Shebeen Whiskey House / Salt Tasting Room. Where: The Irish Heather Gastropub is at 212 Carrall St. in Gastown. The Café and Shebeen are at the same address. Call: 604 688 9779. Salt is halfway down Blood Alley between Carrall St. and Abbott St., also in Gastown. C...
Local Restaurants Add More Green to Their Menus
Aug27By Erin Stringer Restaurants have got to be some of the worst offenders when it comes to consumption and waste: major energy and water use, uneaten portions scraped into the trash, eco-unfriendly takeout packaging, and imported foods that are often grown in unsustainable ways. Add to that tonnes of emissions to get the food and drink from whatever corner of the world to diners' tables, a...
Chef's Special: Andrey Durbach of Parkside, La Buca, and Pied-a-Terre
Aug19Who: Andrey Durbach What: Chef/owner Parkside, La Buca, Pied-a-Terre Where: Parkside, 1906 Haro St, 604-683-6912 La Buca, 4025 MacDonald St, 604-730-6988 Pied-a-Terre, 3369 Cambie Street, 604-873-3131 What's your specialty? “High-quality classic cuisine, laden with luxuries and whimsy.” Who is your culinary hero? “Shawn Hill, who gained one Michelin ...
Restaurant Review: Kakurenbou Japanese Izakaya
Jul16Thanks to its proximity to the Pacific and its high number of Japanese immigrants, Vancouver is known for having some of the best, freshest sushi outside of Japan. Indeed, many ex-Vancouverites who have moved East state that, besides friends and family, sushi is what they miss most about living here. However, while Vancouver has long been famous for California and Philadelphia Rolls, one ...
Chef's Special: Chow Chef/Co-Owner Jean-Christophe Poirier
Mar07Welcome to Chef's Special, where we talk shop with Vancouver's hottest chefs, wine stewards and gourmands. Who: Jean-Christophe Poirier What: “I’m from Montréal and I moved to Vancouver three years ago to work in a renowned restaurant. I was supposed to stay only for one year, [but I] ended up opening a restaurant. You never know…” Where: “...
Chef's Special: COAST's Executive Chef, Josh Wolfe
Mar07Welcome to Chef's Special, where we talk shop with Vancouver's hottest chefs, wine stewards and gourmands. Who: Josh Wolfe What: Executive Chef Where: COAST Restaurant, 1257 Hamilton St. Vancouver B.C. 604.685.5010. www.coastrestaurant.ca What's your specialty? “My training is in fine French cuisine, and I have traveled around the world learning a new vocabulary and new tric...
Editor's Pick - Salt Tasting Room
Mar05Salt a sweet treat hidden in Gastown Tucked away in Gastown, on Vancouver's venerable Blood Alley, Salt Tasting Room could possibly have been a city secret that never failed to get out. Opened in June 2006, by Sean Heather( owner of the popular Irish Heather Gastropub ), Salt was a bit of a risky venture from the start. In a rough part of town, on a street that gets very little walk-by...
