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In a similar vein here's Love Food Hate Waste a UK government-backed site.
The Frugal Girl has some great tips, and she is on a campaign to waste no food at all. -
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.
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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.
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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.
It'll be the same as usual. Many - too many - restaurants use DOV to pack the house at a slow time of the year. They squeeze in extra tables and serve steam-table slop they wouldn't put out any other time of year, trying to make a buck from the inevitable crowd of tightfisted lemon-water-sippers that won't be there at any other time of year.
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And a few don't do DOV at all, making it the best time of year to visit. Last year during DOV was a great time to dine at Fuel.
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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
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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has taken up the eGullet resolution challenge here:
Here's an excerpt:
It's that time again when we all re-evaluate the year gone by and look to the next. With some help from the eGullet Society, we at Food Bytes have come up with our own culinary resolutions.Andree Lau:
In 2009, I will eat more fruits and vegetables.
I will make more dinners at home.
I will find a way to make white fish exciting.
I will learn how to bake chewy cookies.
I will try quinoa and durian.
I will read Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia Dunlop.
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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?
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Fiddlehead Joe's is closed.
[Host's note: to minimise the load on our servers, this topic has been split. The discussion continues here.]
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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.
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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.
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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:
Had a first whirl at La Brasserie. Suckling pig, hanger steak, bratwurst...so very good, and if you dig rotisserie, welcome home.From Mia Stainsby in the Sun
On the German front, suckling pig with schupfnudel (potato gnocchi) and sauerbraten with spaetzle (beef brisket marinated in red wine, then slow-braised) are flavourful and hearty dishes. On the French side, there's coq au vin and steak tartare but the best of the French dishes I tried were the onion soup and onion tart. The onions were beautifully caramelized in both dishes. Mussels with frites featured a very tasty broth (mussels themselves were average) and a cold seafood terrine featured fresh seafood, although it wasn't as inviting as the hot dishes. -
Reported in today's Georgia Straight, another Zakkushi, this time on Main:
Following the success of its Denman Street and 4th Avenue locations, a new Zakkushi has opened at 4075 Main Street. It has a menu similar to the Kits restaurant, but with more sushi and sashimi options. -
Elysian Coffee is open at 590 West Broadway at Ash Street, one block west of Cambie.
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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.
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Dolcetto, a new cafe at 2967 Broadway from Mark Taylor of Cru, just opened according to Andrew Morrison over at Scout:
They’re serving 49th Parallel coffee, “seriously” good panini, and baked goods from Chris Brown of Rise Artisan Bakery (formerly the owner of Ecco el Panne). Open from 7:30 am to 7:30 pm, and staffed by once upon a time Cru vets, Mim Arfa and Kristen Howe, back from their independent wanderings. -
Both Lumiere and DB Bistro Moderne will open on December 1, according to Alexandra Gill in today's Globe and Mail:
Chef Daniel Boulud and David and Manjy Sidoo will be reopening Lumière and launching DB Bistro Moderne Vancouver on Dec. 1. Both restaurants will begin taking reservations that day: Lumière (604-739-8185); DB Bistro Moderne (604-739-7115). -
There's a truffle museum in Tuscany: Museo del tartufo.
A description in english: truffle museum
The culinary joys of the fungus are also explored: recipes, and utensils used for serving, shaving and preserving the earthy tidbit, are displayed. At $2,500-4,000 per kilo this season, it's clear why white truffles are referred to as "white diamonds." And like diamonds, they're not much to look at before they're cut, but once prepared by expert hands, can be seductively intoxicating -
yes, very sad.
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Yes, I should have read more carefully before quoting. Oh well, I'm from the wilds of Vancouver.
The party already occurred.The opening is still a few weeks away.
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Susur Lee's restaurant Shang is opening in a few days according to the Globe and Mail today:
On Saturday morning, the scream of buzz saws rips through the tranquil dining room of Susur Lee's New York outpost.With only 2½ days remaining before the city's tastemakers get their first taste of Mr. Lee's cuisine at a Gourmet magazine party celebrating the chef's arrival, workmen in heavy boots are still painting walls, carting glassware and hauling furniture into Shang, the restaurant on the second floor of the trendy Thompson LES hotel. The kitchen still has no gas.
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Wendy Boys has left Lumiere, reported by Alexandra Gill in today's Globe and Mail:
LUMIÈRE'S CELEBRATED pastry chef Wendy Boys has left the restaurant and is now working for the Cactus Club as a consulting chef on special events.Ms. Boys appeared to have a bright future with Daniel Boulud's Dinex Group of New York, which is busily gearing up for the reopening of Lumière and launch of DB Bistro Moderne Vancouver in early December. "She was a wonderful pastry chef," Mr. Boulud said last week. "We had a little disagreement over what she expected to do for us and what we expected from her."
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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.
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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:
Hong Ma No Korean Restaurant#102, 10330-152nd St.
Surrey
604-634-0111
This hole-in-the-wall, diner-like restaurant has some of the tastiest and most affordable Korean-Chinese dishes in the ’burbs. Highlights include a generous portion of deep-fried dumplings ($8.50) and spicy seafood noodle soup ($8.50). Service is sometimes dour but an efficient kitchen means food always arrives quickly.
Mahek Restaurant and Lounge
9470-120th St.Surrey
604-585-3331
Scott Road in Surrey is an endless strip of hole-in-the wall South Asian takeout places. Surprise: Mahek features ornate furnishings and artwork that sumptuously evoke the Raj. Sauces built from the ground up are evidenced in such dishes as the deep red lamb vindaloo. Don’t leave without sampling the famed chicken chili, tandoori prawns, or fish bengali with coconut curry. And that classic, butter chicken, is done beautifully here, with a gentle murk of creamy tomato-tinged gravy (all $11.95).
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.
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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
Dine Out Vancouver - The Topic (2008-)
in Western Canada: Dining
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Alexandra Gill has identified a couple of non-DOV deals in today's Globe: