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Never been ... nice views. A. ← It's on my list above, been around for at least a year. I'll be interested to hear your views. I went last year and concluded it was about the views, not the food. However the view really is spectacular and it is a great place to stop if you've been doing a long seawall walk.

Speaking of Fiddlehead Joe's - their renovation/expansion has been taking a long time. Anyone know what's happening there?

This week's Courier has a Tim Pawsey article on Naramata Bench wineries including a list of wines that are relatively easy to find in town. No mention of KV wines in that list though. Link to article Also in this edition are the Reader's Choice Awards which should provide some more fodder for discussion. Here's a preview: Solly's wins best bagels.

Yes, I understand that. However, it is sad that the neighbourhood can't support better restaurants. Unfortunately $6.00 pasta fits in perfectly on that street.

Yes it still has the same name, and presumably the same owner, but is advertising pasta for $6.00, quite a change from the original concept.

Can someone explain the difference between the two? A. ← Just the shape as far as I know. The classic brioche is cooked in a fluted pan with a little top knot on top. They are also cooked as little buns, big round loaves and probably lots of other shapes as well. Here's a picture and a description: Brioche pan

I know, I know, I should make it myself, but where in Vancouver can I find frozen puff pastry made with butter? Anyone?

Like Gerald, I use a challah - from Terra in my case. If you do find a source please let us know how it was.

Walked by last night. Sign outside: All you can eat pasta for $6.00 (edited to add maybe it wasn't all you can eat, but "any pasta" $6.00), sauces $3.00 Sad, but true.

I think The Chili House is The Chili Club now and Creekside is Dockside. On Burrard Inlet how about Aqua Riva, the Pan Pacific restaurants - Five Sails and ?, the restaurant behind the water park on the sea wall - Mill Marine Bistro, restaurant in the Westin Bayshore.

I agree Neil. Rob F actually claimed to like White Spot a few years ago in a City Food "guilty secrets" article, but John Bishop!?!

I read Laba's article and have to agree. Didn't the Genova sidebar appear somewhere else previously? I'm sure I've read it before. The Stainsby sidebar also looked familiar. Or maybe I just read too much and all it starts to look the same. In any case, I'm sure there's lots to dish but Laba doesn't deliver. And Andrew I won't be able to forget the image those rats giving birth in Prada clutches next time I dine out.

I believe Dubrulle took it over and, I think, planned to make it a sort of "practicum" addition to their cooking school. That didn't seem to work out all that well and then Dubrulle was sold and so on and so on.

Walked by tonight on my way home from a class. They are toiling into the night but I don't think they will be open tomorrow or even this week.

We agree then. I meant no disrespect to Ms Gill - her column helps sell her newspaper, that's a good thing,

So there's hope yet that the Swedish Touch might do smorgasbord? ← Oh I'm sure you can get smorgasbord at the Swedish Touch!

I usually bring my lunch but here's a few more suggestions: Soupspoons in Royal Centre Cafe Artigiano for panini There's a Kaplan's deli downtown somewhere now. I haven't been and I'm not a deli aficionado so I'll leave it to others to comment on their food. The little Italian cafe in Bentall used to make good sandwiches. It's been a few years since I was in Bentall though so I don't know if it is still there or any good.

I usually compare a number of reviews to tease out the information that is important to me. We all have biases and may not share the same priorities, so I think it is useful to be clear on what you are looking for when reading a review. Andrew has given you a pretty good list but I find almost all reviewers will provide some useful information, even if I do not agree with them. You just have to do some calibrating and learn to read between the lines.

Her column was maybe more of a homily than a restaurant review. I always get a laugh comparing the ads in the Straight with what their columnists have to say.

I don't know, it sort of reminds me of those society columns of old only now all the news is who got drunk, who gave who the finger, and who showed the most skin. Lots of insider "dish" for those poor plebs who have to make reservations, pay for their dinners and don't get recognized when they walk in the door. I'm sure it helps to sell the newspaper.

Thanks for reporting back Robin. Glad to hear that all went well.

I say West. West can be light, especially at lunch and you will have eaten at two great Vancouver restaurants in one day. I can sympathize with Deborah's perspective that it is too much for one day but you are visitors and have to take your opportunities as they arise. Have a dessert - I wouldn't really describe myself as a sweet tooth but West desserts are extraordinary. West and Rangoli are my two picks, followed by Salade de Fruits. I'm pretty sure Tojo's is not open for lunch, nor is Vij's, don't know about En, Cru is not as has been pointed out. I don't think Memphis Blues offers light options. Haven't been to Picnic, Fortune Garden, Tamarind or Velvet Cafe.

Summer pudding at Parkside. One of those simple traditional dishes that is much more than the sum of its parts.

I actually have eaten beaver tail (keep it clean, you guys!) at a Paul Kane dinner in Fort Edmonton back in the 1980's. The dinner was a fairly close reproduction of a December 1847 meal painter Paul Kane described in his diaries: Paul Kane dinner. Here's an excerpt: "No tablecloth shed its snowy whiteness over the board; no silver candelabra or gaudy china interfered with its simple magnificence. The bright tin plates and dishes reflected jolly faces and burnished gold can give no truer zest to a feast." "At the head, before Mr. Harriett, was a large dish of boiled buffalo hump; at the foot smoked a boiled buffalo calf. Start not, gentle reader, the calf is very small, and is taken from the cow by the caesarean operation long before it attains its full growth. This boiled whole, is one of the esteemed dishes amongst the epicures of the interior." "My pleasing duty was to help a dish of mouffle, or dried moose nose; the gentleman on my left distributed, with graceful impartiality, the white fish, delicately browned in buffalo marrow. The worthy priest helped the buffalo tongue, whilst Mr. Rundell cut up the beavers' tails. ....." Not for the squeamish! We didn't have buffalo hump or calf, but we did have beaver tails, moose nose, white fish and goose. Sort of gives you a different perspective on eating locally.

Thanks all. I did head over to Whole Foods and bought a big bag full.