Vancouver Lee

Have no fear, Deborah. Where there are burgers, there must also be cheese. I'm with you re the HSG burgers - don't they sound awesome????

OMG, I only made it about half way through before I had to stop. Holy crap indeed. Eatin' burgers with The Man.

Hypothetically, if some of the nice people I know were to coincidentally all met up at, say, a burger place, I would also be inclined to embrace the addition of such burgerish-delights as cheese, bacon, mushrooms, etc. Hypothetically, of course.

OK, then. We'll wait until you let us know the rules to plan anything. Anything wrong with planning a "hypothetical" Burger Club outing?

So far we have Winegeek, Montrachet, HK Dave and Deborah, along with yours truly. Who else is in?

OK, so it seems like there is enough interest to make a Burger Club revivial feasible. Daddy-A, what's the ettiquette on handling logistics for this? i.e. am I stepping on toes if I do it? Another question for the group: since I'm a noob here, the only burger place I've been too is Vera's (and that was yesterday). Pretty much anywhere we go will be the first time for me, but probably not for anyone else. Any suggestions as to the first place we go? My vote is for the place in the Greece suggested by Winegeek, but barring that I'd vote for Moderne. OTOH, if that's a re-run for most people then I'm happy to go somewhere else.

Another Sunday afternoon, another craving. I paid a visit to Vera's Burger Shack in Kits this afternoon, and throwing caution to the wind, I ordered a G-Money burger. Pretty good burger and great fries. My only complaints: two patties on one bun makes it hard to eat, and the restaurant was very smokey, like the grill vents weren't working, so I took my burger to go and ate in the car. There was some talk, IIRC, at the eGullett Kolachy lunch last week of reviving the Burger Club. Any interest in that, folks?

You aren't intruding at all, chezcherie. Great suggestion. You're right, you could do that with a host of other flavours. Alas, I just got back from the Amato Gelato Cafe, and sure enough they had cinnamon! Not too bad at all, although it wasn't exactly like I remembered it tasting as a kid. My craving has been satisfied, I'm happy to report. Very OT, but I took my 5 year old with me to Amato's. As we're driving there, the radio starts playing "Paradise by the Dashboard Light". Remembering the "we were barely seventeen and ..." lyric (surely you recall the rest of that line, right? ), I changed the radio station. My son howled in protest, insiting that he wanted to listen to that "really great song". So we sat in the car, in front of Amato's, listening to Meat Loaf with my son bopping along to the beat in the back seat, and me asking him a question to distract him everytime the "we were barely seventeen" lyric comes along! I fear that I'll never be able to eat cinnamon ice cream without that song popping into my head!

(sitting here, eagerly awaiting responses.....)

Food AND golf? Count me in.

I learned to cook hash browns on a campfire without a skillet, cooking them in aluminum foil instead. Cube the potatoes, dice some onion, add lots of butter, salt, pepper and some garlic and wrap the whole mix in foil. We'd thrown it on/over the fire and cook it anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes depending on the heat of the fire and how crispy we wanted them. Yum.

Growing up in Ontario, my parents used to take the family out to dinner to Mother's Restaurants, a chain of pizza-and-pasta places that went under many moons ago. My fondest memory of Mother's was the cinnamon ice cream they served. I've found precisely two restaurants since then that had it on the menu, and to my dismay both were sold out. Does anyone know of a restaurant here in Vancouver that serves this? Better yet, are there any grocery stores that sell it by the tub?

Might come in handy to jump the line at the Kolachy Shop, too.

I spotted these being made while we were eating today. Big chunks of roast and carrots in the filling...... mmmmmmmmmmmm

Nice to meet you too, Deb. Ditto for everyone else. Its' always cool to be able to associate a real person with their posts. BTW, the pizza kolachy I had was not all that great. Picture pepperoni, sauce and a hint of cheese put in a blender for 5 seconds - not what I had in mind at all. But I have faith that the Kolachy Gods will not disappoint with Goat cheese and pesto up next.

Aha! I beat you to this one Arne! Was in at 11:30 a.m. picking up some kolachies for the Mouse House and also got the goods from Keith. The new kolachy should be available tomorrow and will definitely be worth waiting in line for! Out of respect to Keith and Jason, I won't tattle... you'll just have to head down and find out for yourselves. Well, since they're closed now I can tell you it's got something to do with pesto & goat cheese! What Keith & Jason will respect is a big-ass line-up out the door! We must have missed you by about 10 minutes Joie ... Arne ← PESTO AND GOAT CHEESE???? Two of the foods that prove there is indeed a benevolent God. I may just stage my own swarming, starting tomorrow..... Oh Damn, I can't - I'm in Edmonton now and won't be back in vancouver until Wednesday evening.

I was under the impression that a 100% markup was pretty standard for a fine dining restaurant. Was I wrong? Interesting - this wine had a ton of very forward fruit, and I don't usually think of SB or semillion as being very strong. Ya learn something new everyday. ← A 100% mark-up is fine, very good actually. Last time I was in there( about 2 years ago) they had a bottle of Burrowing Owl 98 merlot ($25 retail) on their list for $125. Unfortunately, there are numerous exapmples of this. By no way am I trying to take awy your enjoyment of your dining experience; I'm thrilled that you had such a great dinner. I just don't agree with their mark-ups ← I understand - I didn't think you were trying to take away from my experience at all, I was just curious about wine markups, thats all. You said a $50-70 wine would sell for $125 there, which is approx 100% markup and seemed reasonable to me, that's all. I know you were speculating..... My guess is that we probably overpaid for the wine, given how much like royalty we were treated. ← Sorry, what I meant to say was restaurants that sell a bottle of wine for 50-70, BB will charge @$125. In that case a $25 bottle will sell at most fine dining rooms for 50-70 but BB will charge 125. They are definately not the only place to go way over the 100-150% markup though, especially in Whistler. Now I feel like I've taken away from the purpose of your post and for that I am sorry ← I think some discussion of the markup Bearcreek Bistro charges for wine is very relevent to this thread, so no worries, Winegeek. (May I call you that? ) And hey, if the customers will pay a 300% markup, I'd charge it, too.

If you are talking about a regular (not fresh) mozza, Scardillo brand is pretty good. They're the same people that locally make excellent fresh mozza,which you can get at Scardillo's Deli on Hastings and several other places. ← Excellent - thank you, I'll give that a try.

I was under the impression that a 100% markup was pretty standard for a fine dining restaurant. Was I wrong? Interesting - this wine had a ton of very forward fruit, and I don't usually think of SB or semillion as being very strong. Ya learn something new everyday. ← A 100% mark-up is fine, very good actually. Last time I was in there( about 2 years ago) they had a bottle of Burrowing Owl 98 merlot ($25 retail) on their list for $125. Unfortunately, there are numerous exapmples of this. By no way am I trying to take awy your enjoyment of your dining experience; I'm thrilled that you had such a great dinner. I just don't agree with their mark-ups ← I understand - I didn't think you were trying to take away from my experience at all, I was just curious about wine markups, thats all. You said a $50-70 wine would sell for $125 there, which is approx 100% markup and seemed reasonable to me, that's all. I know you were speculating..... My guess is that we probably overpaid for the wine, given how much like royalty we were treated.

I'll be there!

Thanks, Arne. We are certianly trying our best to discover as much about our new home as possible. My big question is "What's up with all this snow"???? I was given a solemn promise that snow in Vancouver was a once-a-year-then-it's-gone kind of thing. Where do I lodge a formal complaint? I'm reminded of a photograph a friend sent me when he found out we were moving here. It was a picture of a patio chair on it's side and the caption "Winter Storm Damage in Vancouver".

What is Indian Pizza? ← My brother said is it basically an Italian (well Canadian style) Pizza with Indian spices. Kind of spontaneous fusion - and I know that it sounds dubious, that's why I am asking around. ← Hmmm, very interesting. I'm eagerly awaiting more info, now, too.

I was under the impression that a 100% markup was pretty standard for a fine dining restaurant. Was I wrong? Interesting - this wine had a ton of very forward fruit, and I don't usually think of SB or semillion as being very strong. Ya learn something new everyday.

What is Indian Pizza?