Conde Nast Traveler's 2005 Hot Lists

[Mooshmouse]

Judith Lane reports in The Georgia Straight (Hip, hip, we're hip) that:

Four Canadian restos—three from B.C.—are among the world’s 80 hot tables: Arbutus Grille and Wine Bar (Brentwood Bay), Fifty Two 80 Bistro (Whistler), and hometown honey Vintropolis Wine Bar & Bistro.

Over all the other restaurants that we have in this province? I reiterate: you have got to be kidding me.

Edited June 16, 2005 by Mooshmouse (log)

[Keith Talent]

Ergo the list is total shit and should only be relied upon by flat footed nylon windbreaker wearing sloth like yokels from Iowa. Conde Naste is for a demographic that while moronic, can almost read.

Everytime I read ANY travel magazine regarding ANY destination I've ever been to, they miss almost everything good about a place, and manage to dig up a few obvious suggestions. Call it the Capilano Suspension Bridge effect.

[peppyre]

Judith Lane reports in The Georgia Straight (Hip, hip, we're hip)  that:

Four Canadian restos—three from B.C.—are among the world’s 80 hot tables: Arbutus Grille and Wine Bar (Brentwood Bay), Fifty Two 80 Bistro (Whistler), and hometown honey Vintropolis Wine Bar & Bistro.

Over all the other restaurants that we have in this province? I reiterate: you have got to be kidding me.

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Didn't you notice that when we were there? Scrawled on a couple of sign boards in chalk they were announcing the they were on the Conde Nast list. Umm...I should mention that I thought it was a great thing BEFORE I started eating.

I'm hoping they have an absolutely knock-your-socks-off wine list, but since it was lunch, I didn't even think to look at it.

[eatrustic]

Not to dump on Vintropolis but what was the rational behind the choice? I would love to here Jamie's take on this kind of thing as it happens often enough.

Is it : a lazy writer who called a contact in Vancouver for a recommendation and got the

publicist for Vintropolis?

: the desperate need to have a never before mentioned food establishment so as to

look cutting edge?

Granted Vintropolis has a decent wine selection with a nice little wine store attached but

the food is certainly not at a level that would elevate them to world status by any stretch of the imagination.

[Keith Talent]

Moxies must have been pissed, knowing they only missed the list by one spot.

[James Kendal]

Dont forget that the article is about NEW restaurants.

[Andrew Morrison]

New? Might as well put William Tell on that list as well. Hot? Where's the Ovaltine.

Good to know the big guns have their fingers on B.C.'s pulse.

[jamiemaw]

Not to dump on Vintropolis but what was the rational behind the choice? I would love to here Jamie's take on this kind of thing as it happens often enough.

Is it : a lazy writer who called a contact in Vancouver for a recommendation and got the

        publicist for Vintropolis?

      : the desperate need to have a never before mentioned food establishment so as to 

          look cutting edge?

  Granted Vintropolis has a decent wine selection with a nice little wine store attached but

the food is certainly not at a level that would elevate them to world status by any stretch of the imagination.

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Sometimes these polls are reader driven, sometimes they parachute forwign writers in. The best pan-Canadian survey is EnRoute magazine, which canvasses food writers across the country to seek some common opinion, and then deploys its own writer to test each restaurant--a daunting task.