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Definitely a guilty pleasure!!
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eG Foodblog: Wendy DeBord - Dessert, the most important meal.
*Deborah* replied to a topic in Food Traditions & Culture
I thought I was weird for putting a tea towel over! I will have to try with plastic ! -
Oh, thanks for bumping this up, Sarah, I meant to look it up earlier: Per the City of Vancouver website (my synopsis follows) It is subleased to Point Group Holdings Ltd. for ten years with a five-year option to renew. Point Group is headed by Daniel Frankel, operator of the Prospect Point Café and Mill Marine Bistro in Harbour Green Park, as well as Bridges Restaurant on Granville Island and the café and catering service at the Coal Harbour Community Centre. It is meant to be open by the May long weekend. Details are at the link above.
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Oh, I thought it might have been moved to Europe, but it seems to have been deleted...
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:laugh: Thanks for that KT.
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Exactly!! More fried skin goodness for you. And yeah, I like the dark bits lurking next to the spine (oysters?). *has secret addiction to KFC original but only eats it once every 3 or 4 years...would eat all-skin, no meat if possible*
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Berliner Currywurst mit, rot weiss (some kind of sausage served with curry powder, the mit being mit Pommes (as in frites) and rot for ketchup and weiss for mayo. Nothing else hits the spot in quite the same way. Must be from an Imbiß (snack bar), and tastes best after some amount of beer.)
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For a small (but highly alcoholized) wedding, I picked up 24 IKEA flutes, they were boxed, $4 (CAD) for 4 stems, and while they are far from elegant crystal, they are good enough. We didn't break any, either. I think some of the nicer IKEA stuff may be more fragile than these flutes...
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I'm with Butter: Parkside and Pastis are favourites of mine. I don't feel as though I have to dress up; but if I want to, I don't feel like a dork. Actually, I'd probably eat at Parkside even if it had the atmosphere of an airplane hangar, if Andrey Durbach were cooking. I also like Brix for atmosphere, sitting in the picture windows or in the quiet corner in the front being my favourite places. Somehow even when it's quite lively in the room, you notice it less there. I like sitting at the bar at HSG, it's becoming like Cheers for a bunch of us there
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OMG I'm snarfing down the current feature kolachy...JAMBALAYA! SO delicious, highly recommended.
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Truth be told: Where've you eaten lately? (Part 1)
*Deborah* replied to a topic in Western Canada: Dining
OooOohhh....wish I could've been there! How do the items served at the afternoon tea at Bacchus compare to other places? ← I don't know if it's fair to compare with teas I've had in London I haven't had any others in Vancouver, though...the tiny éclair was certainly the standout, for me. Two inches of goodness!! The other stuff was basically what you'd expect, I guess, not outstanding but not bad at all...but the experience was lots of fun, and it's a pretty room. -
Truth be told: Where've you eaten lately? (Part 1)
*Deborah* replied to a topic in Western Canada: Dining
Today, Mooshmouse and I donned our cute shoes and went over to Bacchus at the Wedgewood Hotel for tea. We had a cute deuce by the fire (banquette and armchair) and a very explanatory waitress, who I think may have thought that our saying we hadn't had tea at Bacchus before meant we hadn't had tea before... Mooshmouse opted for Green Pear Tea, which smelled lovely and sweet, and had a very complex flavour: it started out bitter, as though the leaves had been steeping too long...(we both left our tea to steep a long time) but finished with a gorgeous pear flavour reminiscent of the aroma. I had Thunderbolt Darjeeling, which wasn't enough of a thunderbolt to jolt me past my hangover/severe lack of sleep Like the other teas I have eaten, we were brought a three-tier presentation tray. (Photo to come!) The bottom layer had savouries: egg salad and cucumber on white, shrimp salad on wheat, a tiny round with smoked salmon, and a tiny multigrain roll with chicken salad (so KEWT!). The second tier had little tarts (Bakewell and a fresh fruit), and a piece of lemon white chocolate layer cake. The top tier had warm sweet scones with fruit and Devonshire cream and jam, a slice of fruitcake, and the most darling éclair ever, with a delicious crème pâtissière and fine scrollwork decoration on top. We two girls chatted away and slowly and steadily worked through almost the entire thing; alas, we were not equal to the Bakewell tarts, either of us. It was a perfectly delightful way to pass a rainy afternoon. -
It all starts somewhere. Leonard C GM ← What Leonard said. Not to mention, why would you assume that your fellow eGulleteers are a bunch of wasteful environmental hooligans? I'll be walking over, myself.
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The only quasi-decent thing I've ever seen to eat inside security is indifferent Triple O/White Spot...suggest you bite the bullet and go through security, and eat at Globe. Your sacrifice will be rewarded! Edited to add this link to the YVR website, which gives you the skinny on all the food available.
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There is decent Chinese food at the airport, on the International Departures level. (Linen tablecloth Chinese food, not food fair Chinese food.) I mean it's better than any airport food I've ever eaten anywhere, FWIW. Edited to add that it's at the Japanese restaurant, just to confuse the issue I've only eaten dim sum there, is why I thought it was Chinese Globe is honestly supposed to be very good, I'd have no qualms about eating there at all. Although you can get downtown in 20 minutes or less from the airport, I wouldn't want to risk a connection on traffic. I err on the side of caution, having missed a flight once
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Where? Perhaps we should begin a Chilean sea bass alert thread. ← No kidding...it stuns me, I haven't eaten it in more than 4 years, in spite of having a really great recipe for it (and I don't have that many great recipes), and I'm not normally on top of things like that at all, so I'm assuming that more aware people have been not eating it for considerably longer.
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← Being mostly a Pacific wild salmon eater (with a little Scottish stuff thrown in when in the UK), I wonder how Pacific wild and Pacific farmed compare in a direct, side by side test like that...the farmed salmon you see around here seems absolutely insipid next to the wild stuff...that may also have to do with my food snobbery in this case. I mean if you order salmon somewhere where it's not the real McCoy, you usually get a noticeably inferior piece of fish. I'm no expert though. Maybe our farmed stuff is worse?
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Call me picky, but I prefer it when the menu properly describes the dish I'm ordering. I also think it's worthwhile when a published reviewer can recognize the difference. I agree with your like of Jamie Maw's reviews, as well as those in Terminal City (but I remember when that was a punk rock street rag that wouldn't go near a place like Chambar--did they even use to have restaurant reviews? I find it a bit disconcerting, really). I am a bit confused by your stated dislike of adjectives and admiration of well-turned metaphor and simile...the right adjective is like the nose on a good Pauillac an hour after opening. But anyway. Welcome from a near-newbie.
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The Holy Trinity of eGullet Vancouver? I'd add Daddy-A to that list, as well, and Peppyre (especially about wine!!!). And I agree with Anne: once you become used to people's reviews, you can figure out how their opinions are similar/differ from yours, and you can adjust accordingly.
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If you're talking to me, no, I have not yet read her column. I'm not anti- Globe coverage of Vancouver food. (And wow, you lasted a whole nother episode than I did! ) I was lightheartedly poking fun (I thought) at reading her column about Chambar before going there myself...as the last time I read something beneath her by-line, it was a big old thumbs down that gave away the story. Please note Alexandra Gill and any relatives/friends reading this post: I AM NOT SLAGGING YOU OFF.
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Perhaps my memory's playing tricks, Deborah, wasn't it the chefs and service folks whom she interviewed that slagged Godiva's after they had viewed the promo tapes? ← Not 100% sure at this juncture who made all the negative comments; I know the restaurant people did, but I cannot, as you say, say definitely whether *she* did. Between them, nonetheless, they did give away 90% of the plot, though, which I thought not quite sporting. If I were not an eGulleter, I doubt I would have watched even as much of the show (1.5 episodes ) as I did.
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Hmm, this is the same person who slagged (and gave away practically the entire episode of) Godiva's. I have some trepidation about reading her review of Chambar before I have been there myself!!
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eG Foodblog: torakris - Pocky and the geisha
*Deborah* replied to a topic in Food Traditions & Culture
Those pictures of the cherry trees from above are simply amazing! Thanks! I had a double box of original chocolate Pocky for supper last night, and it's all your fault No, it's not your fault, but I did have Pocky for dinner. -
Go for the fig leaf...you're less likely to be disappointed with your meal.
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That's a good point! Stop at Ganache in Yaletown and get a Caramel-Chocolat for your midnight snack, then, too!