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Openings and closings (2004–2005)

jamiemaw

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A new place on Dunbar at around 28th (?) called Mexicali just opened this week. Peeped the menu to see if they had tamales, no luck. Anyway, the place is casual with some funny palm tree murals inside. Haven't tried it yet, but in this neighbourhood - easily the worst food vortex in the city - it is welcome.

3WC

Weird I thought there was a MexiCali's on arbutus and 33rd (ish) by the chevron station.

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A new place on Dunbar at around 28th (?) called Mexicali just opened this week. Peeped the menu to see if they had tamales, no luck. Anyway, the place is casual with some funny palm tree murals inside. Haven't tried it yet, but in this neighbourhood - easily the worst food vortex in the city - it is welcome.

3WC

Weird I thought there was a MexiCali's on arbutus and 33rd (ish) by the chevron station.

There was...until that big fire wiped out all the stores at that strip mall. I think it's an M&M meat shop now (unless M&M is beside the old Mexicali location.

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A new place on Dunbar at around 28th (?) called Mexicali just opened this week. Peeped the menu to see if they had tamales, no luck. Anyway, the place is casual with some funny palm tree murals inside. Haven't tried it yet, but in this neighbourhood - easily the worst food vortex in the city - it is welcome.

3WC

Weird I thought there was a MexiCali's on arbutus and 33rd (ish) by the chevron station.

There was...until that big fire wiped out all the stores at that strip mall. I think it's an M&M meat shop now (unless M&M is beside the old Mexicali location.

Mexicali on Dunbar is the same guy, transplanted, along with his loyal customers which seem to be mostly tall teenage boyz lookin' for cheap grub.

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Roland Tanglao's VanEats blog had a quick mention of sciue. Opening soon on West Pender at Howe, it'll be serving what the proprietors have dubbed "Roman street food."

Anyone walking by this location have a progress update?

Joie Alvaro Kent

"I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2,000 of something." ~ Mitch Hedberg

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I work half a block away on Pender, so I just ran over to take a look. They are opening next week. Training staff right now and getting furniture set up according to the two having a smoke outside.

Roland Tanglao's VanEats blog had a quick mention of sciue.  Opening soon on West Pender at Howe, it'll be serving what the proprietors have dubbed "Roman street food."

Anyone walking by this location have a progress update?

Cheers,

Anne

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I work half a block away on Pender, so I just ran over to take a look. They are opening next week.  Training staff right now and getting furniture set up according to the two having a smoke outside.

Now THAT's immediacy. God I love this site.

A.

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Roland Tanglao's VanEats blog had a quick mention of sciue.  Opening soon on West Pender at Howe, it'll be serving what the proprietors have dubbed "Roman street food."

Anyone walking by this location have a progress update?

By the way, summer's over, they might want to update their website in more ways than one. :wink:

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Is that "food porn" ! ?

Doesn't everybody eat pasta that way ?

Yep. When in Rome.........

Collagen and cheek implants aside, I really don't remember street food in Rome, but I do remember the most incredible thin crust pizzas in Napoli and the Amalfi Coast.

If the photos of the pane romano on the their website are any indication, this could be well worth a visit.

Along with some good wines by the glass.

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:blink:  :blink: What the hell is this place supposed to be? 

Judging from the webpage, I have a feeling that it will be a hangout for the collagen crowd.  Just a hunch

Came across this click. From what I can tell of the area, and the aforementioned click, it probably is geared to the business and student crowd, for lunch, etc. rather than decadent evening fare that the main pic seems to imply, at least to me anyway. :unsure: Could be kind of messy going back to work after eating like that though. :biggrin:

"If cookin' with tabasco makes me white trash, I don't wanna be recycled."

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Gosh, you guys are lethal. :biggrin:

Good Italian food is simple by definition (at least in my humble opinion). If anything, we all too often over complicate it. It should be simplest expression of the fewest ingredients.

And since when have the Italians restrained themselves from mixing food with sex? Let's not surrender to our western prudishnes and indulge, or at least wait until they peel the paper from the windows to show us their undies. If it is at all autentico, I'll give them all the room in the world to advertise their penchant for Venusian excess and idolatry.

I'll give them a shot for sure, and perhaps a kiss, too. :wink:

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Andrew Morrison

Food Columnist | The Westender

Editor & Publisher | Scout Magazine

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Came across this click.  From what I can tell of the area, and the aforementioned click, it probably is geared to the business and student crowd, for lunch, etc. rather than decadent evening fare that the main pic seems to imply, at least to me anyway.  :unsure:  Could be kind of messy going back to work after eating like that though.  :biggrin:

Yes, a downtown lunch spot is exactly what it looks like based on a peek in the window.

Boy this is a tough crowd! I agree the website is sleazy looking, but I'm looking forward to a new lunch option and I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

Cheers,

Anne

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Boy this is a tough crowd!  I agree the website is sleazy looking, but I'm looking forward to a new lunch option and I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

And how!

I do think, though, that they're in on the joke that it's quite the head-turning, laughable picture. Maybe best to not judge a book by its cover. (Or judge anything before it exists...)

k.

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Enough has been said about the web site, and I've pruned a few posts that focused on just the site (some remained for continuity's sake).

Tune in next week when we can actually critique the FOOD!

Seriously, let's move on.

A.

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Just heard that chefs John and Tracy Waller have left La Pommeraie at Merridale Ciderworks.

Seems that Simon Manvell of Dock 503 has been brought on board to revise the menu.

Anyone know the whereabouts of the Wallers?

Memo

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Ríate y el mundo ríe contigo. Ronques y duermes solito.

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Just heard that chefs John and Tracy Waller have left La Pommeraie at Merridale Ciderworks.

Seems that Simon Manvell of Dock 503 has been brought on board to revise the menu.

Anyone know the whereabouts of the Wallers?

Memo

Don't know of the whereabouts of the Wallers--perhaps Shelora can help. But I can attest to Simon Manvell's cooking. We had a family dinner at Dock 503 several weeks ago that made an articulate statement about Saanich's producers and then got out of the way of the wonderful ingredients--a really practiced touch. Not incidentally, we stayed nearby at Miraloma, which I would also recommend.

We also went to the Brentwood Bay Resort. The weather was agreeable and we took advantage of the nightly barbecue on the verandah. At $18.95, it was a steal--ribs and chicken, baked potato, slaw etc.

The next door dining room, called The Arbutus Grille, was doing well, overseen by chef Alain Léger (ex-Metropolitan Hotel. and Earls Dev Chef), in my mind one of the best, and most undersung, chefs in the province. Several of the off-site dinners that he catered for The Met counted as the best catered events I've attended. Full stop.

It was to be his second-to-last week at Brentwood Bay. Léger has accepted the position of executive chef of Truffles Group, which, in addition to Canoe Brew Pub, also has a large catering component. Good luck.

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from the thinly veneered desk of:

Jamie Maw

Food Editor

Vancouver magazine

www.vancouvermagazine.com

Foodblog: In the Belly of the Feast - Eating BC

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There's been a bit of talk lately about The Pear Tree (4120 East Hastings Street, Burnaby) and it's new remodelling efforts. I drove by yesterday to have a look:

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It's the grey "block" in the middle. Believe me it looks much better in person ... very clean, and far too hip for that block! :laugh: Stephanie was outside supervising a delivery and told me they're hoping to be open next week! Same menu for now, but new items coming as soon as time permits.

Stay tuned!

A.

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There's been a bit of talk lately about The Pear Tree (4120 East Hastings Street, Burnaby) and it's new remodelling efforts.  I drove by yesterday to have a look:

gallery_16561_287_41735.jpg

It's the grey "block" in the middle.  Believe me it looks much better in person ... very clean, and far too hip for that block! :laugh: Stephanie was outside supervising a delivery and told me they're hoping to be open next week!  Same menu for now, but new items coming as soon as time permits.

Stay tuned!

A.

The last time I was there... well.. just wow. It certainly looks different now. Seems like they have totally remade the restaurant over.

Anyone have any news of Saltlik's opening?

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A Burrito Brothers, if I recall the name correctly, is opening on Commercial Drive, at the corner of 1st Avenue, where the Java place (coffee shop) used to be.

:smile:

edited to correct the name which I obviously did not remember correctly; although I did at first, when I got to the p.c., I changed it because I thought I must have remembered it wrong, should have gone with my first hunch, as they say! :rolleyes:

The correct name is The Red Burrito, another in the theme of red that I mentioned in an earlier post. :hmmm:

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"If cookin' with tabasco makes me white trash, I don't wanna be recycled."

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