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Alexandra Gill has identified a couple of non-DOV deals in today's Globe:

In a similar vein here's Love Food Hate Waste a UK government-backed site.

Gastropod is starting its Dine Out menu today. Besides Brian's restaurant, a few not on the Tourism Vancouver list: Cibo, La Buca, Pied a Terre, Fuel, Campagnolo, Voya, La Quercia, Bishop's, Lumiere, Vij's, Chow. Lots more that I've missed so feel free to add. The only one I've seen with a "sold out" posting is West. Menus look pretty good to me.

Tequila Kitchen in Yaletown closed, reportedly looking at opening somewhere with more reasonable rents. Incendio in Gastown had a big fire yesterday so they'll probably be closed for a while. Near Incendio, Deacon's Corner, a diner, has been opened by the Cobre people.

All too true - sadly about the DOV part and good advice about the non-DOV restaurants. My birthday falls in the DOV season and I'm always looking out for non-participating restaurants.

More information arrived in my email box today courtesy of Tourism Vancouver: - 188 restaurants participating - prices are up a little: $18, $28 or $38 per person

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has taken up the eGullet resolution challenge here: Foodie Resolutions Here's an excerpt:

Dine Out Vancouver 2009 runs from January 14th through February 1st. Participating restaurants and their menus will be posted on the Tourism Vancouver website on January 5th. It'll be interesting to see how it goes this year. Any lurking restaurateurs with insights?

Fiddlehead Joe's is closed. [Host's note: to minimise the load on our servers, this topic has been split. The discussion continues here.]

Thanks for the suggestions HKDave and chefgregory, and for the report run2eat. Discretion being the better part of valour we decided that neither trudging through the snow nor driving was on today - next weekend perhaps.

Bumping this up. Any new weekend brunch recommendations - near downtown/west end/kits for preference. Sadly Aurora Bistro is closed, but there's lots of new places that have opened.

Is La Brasserie on your list? I haven't made it yet but I'd like to - no reservations though. Lots of pork, including suckling pig, and beer and champagne with low markups (for Vancouver anyway). From Andrew Morrison: From Mia Stainsby in the Sun

Reported in today's Georgia Straight, another Zakkushi, this time on Main:

Elysian Coffee is open at 590 West Broadway at Ash Street, one block west of Cambie.

I like Barrett's suggestions. A few more - Chow on South Granville, Cibo on Seymour or Uva the wine bar next door - in what used to be the Dufferin. Go for coffee at 49th Parallel on 4th Avenue. Oyama Sausage on Granville Island for superb charcuterie and les amis du fromage on West 2nd for cheese, maybe have lunch at Go Fish along the way.

Dolcetto, a new cafe at 2967 Broadway from Mark Taylor of Cru, just opened according to Andrew Morrison over at Scout:

Both Lumiere and DB Bistro Moderne will open on December 1, according to Alexandra Gill in today's Globe and Mail:

There's a truffle museum in Tuscany: Museo del tartufo. A description in english: truffle museum

yes, very sad. Truly sad. My best wishes to Chef Jeff in his future endeavours ←

Yes, I should have read more carefully before quoting. Oh well, I'm from the wilds of Vancouver.

Susur Lee's restaurant Shang is opening in a few days according to the Globe and Mail today:

Wendy Boys has left Lumiere, reported by Alexandra Gill in today's Globe and Mail:

Vancouver Magazine Power 50 is up on their website. This year J.B. MacKinnon & Alisa Smith authors of The 100-Mile Diet made number 49 and Anthony von Mandl of Mission Hill Family Estate made number 48. No sign of David Sidoo who was on last year's list or Rob Feenie who was on the year before. I notice they have a new dining guide out and have updated the one on their website. New website too - I hope they didn't pay too much for it because it needs work.

As others have noted, Surrey is pretty large, geographically speaking. I have no personal knowledge of Surrey restaurants, but I offer two selections from the Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Guide for consideration: Here's a link to the rest: Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Guide: Surrey. The guide was recently updated and generally I find it reliable, but you need to read between the lines a bit. You can search by neighbourhood but you have to be patient as the navigation sucks. Newly relaunched website - needs lots of tweaking.

The November/December EAT is on the street (and on-line). Here's a few of the stories: - A short story on Tacoma's transformation to a place worth visiting. It is great to see a new city featured. - Some Victoria reviews - Meia's Tea Room, PIG, Broughton Street Deli, Pizzeria Prima Strada. Also a new brewery - Driftwood. - Andrew Morrison on 3 new Italian restaurants La Quercia, Cibo, Campagnolo. - Tara Lee and Sue Grimmer on cooking schools. - News from various up Island locations and the Okanagan. How many times has the Atlas Cafe been mentioned in EAT? - A 100 mile holiday menu from Karen Platt. - Mara Jerigan on Slow Food Nation in San Francisco. - Tim Morris on Cortes Oysters. etc,etc