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From a branding perspective, serving the food your restaurant pushes out of the kitchen in miniture toilet bowls is questionable, but that’s exactly what this toilet restaurant does. In fact, the entire place is…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: bathroom, restaurant, toilet | No Comments »
Vietnam and its neighbours suffered terribly under French colonial rule for nearly 100 years, finally ending in the 1950s. But one of the few benefits of this period was the influence French cuisine, with Vietnamese cooks…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
Categories: Worship | Tags: banh mi, restaurant, review, sandwich, vancouver, Vietnamese | 5 Comments »
As any good marketing student or devoted food explorer will tell you, local knowledge is key. When you’re looking for a good meal in a foreign city, this is doubly true – often the best places can only be…
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Friday, May 5th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Budapest, egg, Hungary, quail, restaurant, Stex Haz | No Comments »
It was only after confirming our Friday night seating at A.O.C. that my wife Jane and I started reading online reports that informed us that we weren’t actually supposed to be able to get a reservation at this West…
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
Categories: Worship | Tags: California, charcuterie, Hollywood, Los Angeles, restaurant, Wine | 2 Comments »
The Castro Bistro is neither Cuban nor French. Instead, it’s a crowded Serbian restaurant tucked neatly into the old Jewish section of Budapest.
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Saturday, April 8th, 2006
Categories: Worship | Tags: Budapes, Castro Bistro, paprika, restaurant, serbian, Travel | 1 Comment »
You know how it happens. You get in a rut going to the same old lunch places, and then someone suggests a place you all know about, should go to more often, but don’t for some reason. It was like that earlier this…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, March 17th, 2006
Categories: Worship | Tags: Chutney Villa, indian, lunch, restaurant, review, vancouver | No Comments »
How often does a civilian get an invitation to work directly under the wing of the top chef in Vancouver for a day? Not often. West Restaurant’s Executive Chef, David Hawksworth, graciously allowed me to infiltrate…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
Categories: Worship | Tags: David Hawksworth, kitchen, restaurant, stage, vancouver, West | 2 Comments »
If you’ve ever seen the Japanese film Tampopo, you no doubt recall the scene where the elder character teaches his sidekick the fine art of truly appreciating and devouring a good bowl of ramen. Another favourite…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, February 4th, 2006
Categories: Worship | Tags: Japanese, Kintaro, ramen, restaurant, review, Tampopo, vancouver | No Comments »
These days when new friends or visitors come to town and I want to show Vancouver off, I take them to Hapa Izakaya. Owned and operated by Justin Ault, it is a traditional izakaya, a sort of action-packed Japanese…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 3rd, 2006
Categories: Worship | Tags: hapa, izakaya, Japanese, restaurant, review, vancouver | 1 Comment »
It’s over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about it – holiday eating that is. Just before New Year’s we had the opportunity to meet our clients from Singapore for the first time over…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
Categories: Worship | Tags: Kerrisdale, restaurant, review, senova, Singapore | No Comments »