coinoisseur

I'm out of town on business about sixty days per year, and on most trips, when not entertaining a client, I dine at the bar. Some of my recent favourites are: Toqué in Montreal, Teatro in Calgary, Michael Mina in San Francisco and Jack's Grill in Edmonton.

The Urban Bites website now says "We regret to inform you that Urban Bites has closed its doors for good" It was just down the street

Here's the view of NU from our flybridge as we moored at the False Creek Yacht Club for the Grand Opening Party last week. What a convenient location what a great party Thanks Harry, Leonard and all....

Good to know that someone appreciates our work Thank you, Ralph.The "powers that be" at dmoz have just granted me permissions to edit the Restaurants and Bars categories in Burnaby, Coquitlam, Langley, Maple Ridge, Richmond, Surrey, West Vancouver and Regional Districts/Greater Vancouver. Now I really need your help and input; these are not my normal chomping grounds.

One of my diversions for many years has been to volunteer as an editor with Open Directory Project (dmoz.org) in a number of categories of interest, among which is the Restaurants and Bars of Vancouver. In the last couple of years I have more than tripled the number of listings to 276, making it the largest listing of any city in the directory. For comparison: New York - 261 (Manhattan 176 + Brooklyn 54 + Queens 15 + Bronx 4 + Staten Island 12); Chicago - 253; Montreal - 204 (82 in English + 122 en français); London - 201 Paris - 168 (19 in English + 149 en français); San Francisco - 159; Toronto - 158; Los Angeles - 69; Victoria - 61. I have lurked on eGullet from time to time over the last year or so, as one of my resources in finding restaurant urls to add to the directory, but I fear I am now running dry. I know that there are many fine dining establishments in Vancouver that don't have websites, and some, like HSG whose links lead only to a review page on another site. There are some under development, like NU, Soupspoons and Jolly's Indian Bistro that I have on my watchlist, but I also suspect that there are many restaurant websites whose urls I have yet to discover. If you are aware of any, please let me know. For guidance, I edit sites located in the City of Vancouver, not Burnaby, Richmond, North or West Vancouver, Surrey, etc. Also, I have recently begun working on the listings in Victoria, adding 25 sites to the category (not Oak Bay, Esquimalt....). Thanking you in advance,