Vancouver's Best Burgers
Tomahawk Barbecue Why bother with a faux-retro burger shack when you can chomp on the greasy goodness at an original? At the Tomahawk, a North Shore institution since 1926, the certified-organic beef...
View ArticleBest of Richmond's Eat Street
Options on Eat Street range from high-end fine dining to cheap and cheerful noodles bars, Hong Kong-style cafes, and all-you-can-eat hot pot joints. While there are any number of great restaurants...
View ArticleBest Chinese Restaurants in Metro Vancouver
Alvin Garden 4850 Imperial St., Burnaby, 604-437-0828read more
View ArticleBest Noodles in Vancouver
Sha Lin Noodle 548 W. Broadway, 604-873-1816The Lowdown: Rustic noodle making at its best. Watch the masters stretch, pull, and knife-cut noodles by hand. The Dish: Spicy stir-fried noodles with...
View ArticleBenton Brothers Do Lunch
Benton Brothers in Kerrisdale has long been a neighbourhood pick for its around-the-world selection of luscious cheeses served by smiling staff (ask for a sample of what's best today, and you'll go...
View ArticleSeven Unexpected Ways to Enjoy Japanese Shiso Leaves
SauceThe menu at Hapa Izakaya (multiple locations) offers plenty of shiso-based goodness, including halibut tempura served with a shiso-infused tartar sauce for a new take on fish ’n’ chips. At Ki...
View ArticleFive Amazing Sushi Rolls to Check Out
Toshi house rollToshi, 181 E. 16th Ave., 604-874-5173 Yes, the lineup is brutal. But once inside this wildly popular spot you’ll be rewarded with the simple, delicious house roll featuring prawn...
View ArticleA Short Course On Our City’s Incredible Variety of Japanese Cuisine
Ajisai 2081 W. 42nd Ave., 604-266-1428read more
View ArticleComparing Vancouver's Coffee Beans
It will have escaped nobody's notice that Vancouver is a top-ranked city in at least three categories. We're always high on those "livable city" lists. We have the most expensive real estate on the...
View ArticleRecently Reviewed New Restaurants
The Acorn 3995 Main St., 604-566-0991. Theacornrestaurant.ca read more
View ArticleCoffee at Home
Love a Starbucks latte but hate leaving home for a cuppa? The newly launched single-cup Verismo system uses precisely apportioned coffee and milk pods in a Swiss-engineered high pressure machine to...
View ArticleHawksworth's Hong Kong
Most of David Hawksworth's guest-chef appearance at Sevva in 2012 was spent in the kitchen, but our reigning Chef of the Year did make some time to explore. "I can't say enough about the dim sum," he...
View ArticleRecently Reviewed: Burdock & Co., La Cigale, Canyon
Burdock & Co.2702 Main St., 604-879-0077. Burdockandco.comread more
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Make Mine Rare: Off-Menu Secrets
Photos by:Clinton Hussey and Styling by: Lawren Moneta Eggs Un-Benedict Café Régalade read more
View ArticleReview: Homer Street Cafe
Sunday afternoon and the brunch rush is in full swing. My friend Lenny reaches over to stab at his boyfriend's chicken cobbler topped with a (de rigueur) oozing poached egg. "My salad is lame," he says...
View ArticleReview: The Farmer's Apprentice
When Chef David Gunawan spoke at Pecha Kucha last year, just a couple of months after opening The Farmer's Apprentice with partner Dara Young, he made a comment that got nervous laughs. He'd been...
View ArticleReview: Miku
Sit at Miku’s sushi bar on a busy night -- and most nights there are busy -- and the sweet, smoky scorching of fish flesh means you will order the house specialty. This isn’t the kind of intimate sushi...
View ArticleReview: Greenhorn Espresso Bar
Stumble across the new Greenhorn, deep in the middle of residential West End, and the constant lineups and buzzy room might lead you to believe it's always been there -- because shouldn't the West End...
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Cinara
There are only three virtues in contemporary restaurant cuisine these days, three culinary value clusters that are considered worth espousing. The first is simplicity. The second is innovation. The...
View ArticleRecently Reviewed: The Roof Restaurant & Bar
Go for the view. And the history. For 50 years from opening day in 1939, the Hotel Vancouver's Panorama Roof was the place to see and be seen, to dine and dance, to drink and make deals. For the first...
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The French Revolution
I've clocked a lot of time in the restaurants that have come and gone from 751 Denman Street. Café de Paris, its longest-serving tenant, was a big influence on me: while writing my first novel, Stanley...
View ArticleThe Fat Badger
He's taken us to Spain (España) and Italy (Cibo Trattoria) , and now expat British chef Neil Taylor is giving us a taste of his homeland at the Fat Badger. The West End house that contained Le Gavroche...
View ArticleThe Abbey
The newest venture from chef Andrey Durbach (Pied-à-Terre, La Buca) is his notion of a "progressive tavern"-which is to say, a gastropub stripped of the term's Anglocentric implications, its offerings...
View ArticleSome Minor Adjustments
I won't have been alone, upon hearing the news earlier this year, in wondering exactly why Chambar was moving and expanding. The restaurant that Nico and Karri Schuermans opened in 2004, with a modest...
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