Sorry that there is some sort of mix up regarding my identifacation goes but I don't work in restaurants here in Vancouver I actually work in the entertainment industry as such I have had the pleasure of eating at both of these restaurants. I didn't want to offend anyone and was not bashing West restaurant by any means, but just questioning there place as the Vancouver Magazines restaurant of the year. As I'm sure everyone knows the awards are rumoured to be quite prone to be not so much as an actual contest of sorts as it is a publicity of the local restaurants , which isn't all that bad. I just found it very strange that West would have won considering they changed there format so late in the year, if this was an actual contest. From what I hear from people I know in the industry Jack Eversal was considering selling West because it was losing money and wasn't as full as it needed to be, and there change in format was not a progression as annebel had pointed out but was an effort to change from something that financially didn't work to something more tuned to what the general public would accept here in Vancouver. Do I personally think that this was a change for the better? Foodwise no, but better for them to change and have them still with them in our city then lose what is a pretty good restaurant and staff. I do think that West is a good restaurant and by all means continue to go back again and again, but I think that the restaurant scene in vancouver is lacking and that gets back to my origal question Lumiere or West , I'm looking for opinions not hurt feelings or anything like that .