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Last night was our long postponed trip into Vancouver to see Colin James. We ate at Frankie's Italian Kitchen, https://www.frankiesitaliankitchen.ca/ chosen for it's proximity to the venue. Overall it was good. Very old school decor, kind of looked like a "gentlemen's club." Most of the wait staff were older Italian men. It also houses a jazz bar, but as we were eating kind of early, the music hadn't started. Not a big jazz fan and the restaurant was loud as it was, so I was kind of glad we missed the music.

Cocktails to start; a Negroni for me and a Dirty Martini for my husband. We shared an order of arancini. Everything was good - the arancini was seasoned nicely, a bit sage forward.

My husband ordered the lamb shank with risotto bianco and broccolini. He said it was very good, incrediby tender. I took his word for it, as I don't care for lamb. I had the shrimp tagliatelle, which unfortunately was the most disappointing thing we had. While the lobster cream was rich and had a nice mouth feel, I found the dish overall to be very underseasoned, accepting the ground pepper and parm that were offered helped but it left me wishing I had ordered something else. 

Last night was our long postponed trip into Vancouver to see Colin James. We ate at Frankie's Italian Kitchen, https://www.frankiesitaliankitchen.ca/ chosen for it's proximity to the venue. Overall it was good. Very old school decor, kind of looked like a "gentlemen's club." Most of the wait staff were old Italian men. It also houses a jazz bar, but as we were eating kind of early, the music hadn't started. Not a big jazz fan and the restaurant was loud as it was, so I was kind of glad we missed the music.

Cocktails to start; a Negroni for me and a Dirty Martini for my husband. We shared an order of arancini. Everything was good - the arancini was seasoned nicely, a bit sage forward.

My husband ordered the lamb shank with risotto bianco and broccolini. He said it was very good, incrediby tender. I took his word for it, as I don't care for lamb. I had the shrimp tagliatelle, which unfortunately was the most disappointing thing we had. While the lobster cream was rich and had a nice mouth feel, I found the dish overall to be very underseasoned, accepting the ground pepper and parm that were offered helped but it left me wishing I had ordered something else. 

Last night was our long postponed trip into Vancouver to see Colin James. We ate at Frankie's Italian Kitchen, https://www.frankiesitaliankitchen.ca/ chosen for it's proximity to the venue. Overall it was good. Very old school decor, kind of looked like a "gentlemen's club." Most of the wait staff were old Italian men. It also houses a jazz bar, but as we were eating kind of early, the music hadn't started. Not a big jazz fan and the restaurant was loud as it was, so I was kind of glad we missed the music.

Cocktails to start; a Negroni for me and a Dirty Martini for my husband. We shared an order of arancini. Everything was good - the arancini was seasoned nicely, a bit sage forward.

My husband ordered the lamb shank with risotto bianco and broccolini. He said it was very good, incrediby tender. I took his word for it, as I don't care for lamb. I had the shrimp tagliatelle, which unfortunately was the most disappointing thing we had. While the lobster cream was rich and had a nice mouth feel, I found the dish overall to be very underseasoned, accepting the ground pepper and parm that were offered helped but it left me wishing I had ordered something else. 

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