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May 15, 2012
THE NEWS - The New Q4 on Broadway Gets Saucy
With the opening of their new restaurant location, the Corsi clan have made it easier for you to take the best loved Q4 dishes home with you - and we don't mean as leftovers.
May 08, 2012
EAT THIS! - At Breakfast the Sous Vide is Yolky Dokey
Want to wake up your breakfast waiter? The next time one asks you how you'd like your eggs done, reply "sous-vide, please".
April 19, 2012
Previews - Cache Bistro and Lounge Opens in Yaletown
A new French Bistro opens in Yaletown this week. The following information comes directly from the restaurant's press release.
April 02, 2012
THE NEWS - 12 New Food Trucks Announced for Vancouver
This morning, Mayor Gregor Robertson revealed to an excited bloggerati, which applicants had successfully run City Hall's gauntlet and snagged the 12 available food cart permits for 2012.
April 02, 2012
Restaurant News - New Food Trucks Announced for 2012
This morning, Mayor Gregor Robertson revealed to an excited bloggerati, which applicants had successfully run City Hall's gauntlet and snagged the 12 available food cart permits for 2012.
March 29, 2012
Previews - A First Look at Fat Dragon
The Dragon leads the way to a powerfully tasty collection of Asian-style dishes from the Campagnolo Restaurant team.
March 28, 2012
Previews - Oh My ... OX! Oyster Express
A new oyster bar indicates future big changes for Chinatown
March 12, 2012
EAT THIS! - Crispy Chou at Bel Cafe
The cafe companion to Hawksworth restaurant has just placed a new item in its display case that's worth checking out - the crispy choux.
December 02, 2011
Previews - Cactus Club English Bay Opens in January
Are you ready for sunset dining? Come mid-January 2012, a new and modern Cactus Club at English Bay will be open for business in the location of the former BathHouse at English Bay.
November 27, 2011
Restaurant News - Two BC Companies Play Santa
We all know that the true spirit of Christmas is in the giving. Here's how two B.C. companies plan to provide for the less fortunate during the Christmas season.
October 21, 2011
Restaurant News - 2011 BC Restaurant Hall of Fame
The eleven inductees to the 2011 BC Restaurant Hall of Fame were well chosen. Now, who you would you nominate for 2012?
October 15, 2011
EAT THIS! - Eat This: Warm Pig's Head Salad at Cibo
This salad by Cibo's Chef Neil Taylor is a must try.
October 11, 2011
Previews - A First Sneak Peek at Black and Blue
A photo embargo was still in effect at Glowbal Group's newest restaurant, Black and Blue. However we did get a quick preview of some of the room features.
August 15, 2011
Restaurant News - New Rasoee on Cambie Opens Tuesday
This week Rasoee Indian Kitchen throws a three day party for the opening of their new Cambie Street location. Check out the prizes!
June 30, 2011
Previews - Go Fish Broadway replaces Bin 942
Chef Gord Martin is pleased to announce that he will open a second GO FISH location this summer at Broadway and Granville, in the current Bin 942 space.
June 20, 2011
Previews - Frankie's Italian Kitchen Opens in William Tell Space
Frankie's Italian Kitchen & Bar quietly opened its doors this month having taken over the space formerly occupied by The William Tell and Beatty Street Bar & Grille.
May 30, 2011
Restaurant News - Tomato Fresh Food Cafe Closes after 20 Year Run
After a 20 year run, the Tomato Fresh Food Cafe’s four year run off Broadway has come to a close.
May 27, 2011
Previews - LA's Ramen Jinya Comes to Vancouver
The Japanese colonization of both ends of Robson Street continues with Ramen Jinya.
May 06, 2011
Previews - Behind the Papered Door at Hawksworth Restaurant
Hawksworth restaurant at the Rosewood Georgia Hotel is ready to make its debut, in just one week's time. Here's a little of what you will find.
April 21, 2011
Restaurant News - More 2 Love at IK2GO
Italian Kitchen 2 Go has expanded and is now offering a wider variety of Italian-inspired goodies to help Vancouverites get through the work week.
March 11, 2011
Restaurant News - Div(a)ine Menu Continues through April
As the Div(a)ine party grew livelier, a couple of observations about Diva at the Met's role in the culinary history of Vancouver came to mind.
March 06, 2011
BEST DEALS on Meals - Chocolate and Lobsters at The Sutton Place Hotel
It's a lobster, beef and chocolate feast every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night in the Fleuri Restaurant.
January 16, 2011
Restaurant News - C Grows Veggies in its Kitchen - Finds New Roots.
In pursuit of local vegetables, C is cooking with sexy new roots from North Arm Farm and also adopting the "O-Mile-Diet" with a state-of-the-art, Kitchen Cultivator.
January 15, 2011
Restaurant News - Diva's Chefs Return for 15th Anniversary Gala
Former Diva at the Met executive chefs will return for one night only this March, contributing a course each to a special gala dinner celebrating the restaurant's 15th anniversary.
January 13, 2011
BEST DEALS on Meals - Adesso Bistro Supports A Loving Spoonful
Adesso Bistro, the charming West End restaurant known for its Ligurian delicacies has partnered with the charity A Loving Spoonful for this time limited special dinner offer.
December 12, 2010
Restaurant News - End of the Abalone
The sustainable farmed abalone project at Bamfield is no more, and Chef Quang Dang has the last of their efforts.
December 08, 2010
Previews - Tinhorn Creek Announces Details of New Restaurant
December 01, 2010
Previews - A First Look Inside Q4 al Centro
The hammers, buzz saws, and assorted pieces of construction machinery are seeing plenty of action down at 780 Richards street where Q4 al Centro is quickly taking shape as a fully formed new restaurant.
November 07, 2010
BEST DEALS on Meals - Glowbal Group Special Menus for November
In step with the changing seasons, The GLOWBAL COLLECTION of restaurants is ushering in fresh dining deals at its six restaurants this month.
November 03, 2010
Previews - Three New Venues for the Cactus Club
2011 will see two new Cactus Club restaurants in Vancouver, while Abbotsford will get one.
October 20, 2010
Restaurant News - Two Food Carts Debut in Vancouver
Two new street food carts will make their debut in Vancouver within the week.
October 09, 2010
BEST DEALS on Meals - Glowbal Group Special Menus for October
In step with the changing seasons, The GLOWBAL COLLECTION of restaurants is ushering in fresh dining deals at its six restaurants this month.
October 07, 2010
BEST DEALS on Meals - Like Dinner at Nonna’s Returns
“Just Like Dinner at Nonna’s House” returns to Campagnolo this fall with a series of home-style Italian meals offered Tuesday nights for $19.
September 26, 2010
Restaurant News - 2010 BC Restaurant Hall of Fame
Rhonda May, Editor of CityFood Magazine and CityFood Online would like to extend congratulations to her fellow inductees at this year's BC Restaurant Hall of Fame. The gala ceremonies take place this Monday, September 27, 2010.
September 21, 2010
BEST DEALS on Meals - Cru Offers a Pre-Theatre Dinner Special for Fall
Vancouver’s CRU Restaurant is welcoming the change of the seasons with some exciting new dishes and a dinner special to theatergoers.
September 15, 2010
Restaurant News - St. Regis Hotel Upgrades Pub Menu
The St. Regis Hotel announces new leadership and a completely revamped menu at the St. Regis Bar and Grill.
August 28, 2010
Previews - 100 Days Pops Up at the Opus Hotel
Opus temporarily fills its empty Elixir space with a buzz-baiting pop-up restaurant/dining event.
August 24, 2010
Restaurant News - A&W Gets Its Urban Groove On
A&W ditches the boomer nostalgic theme for a more youthful and graphically hip vibe at its new downtown restaurants.
August 04, 2010
Previews - Commune Cafe - A Preview
Annette Rawlinson, Chef Tina Fineza and Evoke Interior Design team up to make brand new Commune Cafe a bright addition to the mid-town restaurant scene.
July 26, 2010
Restaurant News - Vancouver's Floating Dining Room
Whatever floats your boat ... The School of Fish Foundation's new floating dining room really rocks the sustainability message.
July 08, 2010
Restaurant News - Heart of Gastown goes No Car Zone for Weekends
The area around Maple Tree Square in Gastown will turn into one big dining piazza very summer weekend.
July 07, 2010
Restaurant News - Floating Dining Room Coming to False Creek
The School of Fish Foundation floats a unique idea - a "dining" raft made from plastic water bottles.
June 26, 2010
BEST DEALS on Meals - Provence Goes Cirque July 20 - Aug 31
The circus is coming to town, and Provence Marinaside loves the tents, the colours and the magic!
June 11, 2010
BEST DEALS on Meals - Tuesdays at Nonna's
Campagnolo restaurant presents "Just like Dinner at Nonna’s House", a series of home-style, Italian meals offered every Tuesday night at 6 p.m and priced at $19.
June 10, 2010
BEST DEALS on Meals - Special Menus at Glowbal Group for June
From June 17 - 27, the GLOWBAL COLLECTION restaurants are celebrating the long daylight hours with special menus inspired by locales both near and far.
June 02, 2010
BEST DEALS on Meals - Quattro Family Celebrate Father's Day
Antonio and Patrick Corsi, the father and son behind Q4, Gusto di Quattro, and Quattro at Whistler are celebrating Father’s Day family-style at all three restaurants.
May 24, 2010
Previews - Sweeney's Now Open in Yaletown
SWEENEY’S of Yaletown is a new counter-service restaurant, owned and operated by the team behind the popular Galley Patio & Grill at the Jericho Sailing Centre.
May 22, 2010
Previews - Everything Cafe in Vancouver's Chinatown
The latest project from the Sean Heather/Scott Hawthorn tag team opened just a few days ago as a Euro-sleek cafe in Chinatown.
May 20, 2010
Previews - Calabash Restaurant Opens in Vancouver's Gastown Next Week
Toronto ex-pats will rejoice. Calabash, Gastown's new Caribbean-themed restaurant, say they are due to open next week.
May 11, 2010
Previews - Nimby Burger Opens Beachside in Kits
(Think Shake Shack on the beach) Kits is getting a modern take on the classic burger and shake joint
May 11, 2010
BEST DEALS on Meals - Refuel Extends Spot Prawn Boil to June 12
Only 12 seats available each Saturday in May for this popular annual prawn season special
May 05, 2010
BEST DEALS on Meals - May is Asian Heritage Month at Wild Rice
May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada and Wild Rice is offering a menu to celebrate it.
May 01, 2010
BEST DEALS on Meals - Spot Prawns and Patios
BC Spot Prawn Season is swimming our way for another year and many restaurants around Vancouver will be offering their own special menus featuring the tasty crustaceans. Here's one we recommend.
April 13, 2010
BEST DEALS on Meals - Q4 offers $38, 3-Course Dinner until May 6th.
Why wait for Dine Out? Q4 has a dinner deal already on the table.
April 02, 2010
BEST DEALS on Meals - Poisson D'Avril at Provence Marinaside
Saying "something's fishy at Provence Marinaside" just to hook you would be like shooting puns in a barrel. But here's the bait anyway...
March 12, 2010
Previews - Judas Goat Opens This Weekend
Judas Goat, the new Spanish style tapas restaurant opens in Gastown this weekend, but will the tapas be Spanish?
March 10, 2010
Previews - Salt Building To Become New Brew Pub for Mark James
False Creek landmark building with Olympics connection, to become new restaurant, brewpub and bakery complex for Mark James Group.
March 10, 2010
Restaurant News - Some Like it Raw
It's hard to believe that a restaurant would charge you for NOT cooking you dinner, but that appear to be exactly what the three Kambolis Group restaurants have in mind.
February 02, 2010
BEST DEALS on Meals - Sanafir Lunch Menu for February Kicks off with 50% off promotion.
Sanafir announces hours that now extend to lunch, a mondo menu of champers by the glass and colossal screens to showcase Games action.
February 01, 2010
BEST DEALS on Meals - Best Meals on Deals for February, 2010
A section where you can quickly find promotional price offers and special seasonal menus currently on offer. Updates daily.
January 21, 2010
Previews - Prestons Restaurant to Open in Vancouver's Coast Coal Harbour Hotel
Offering a wide selection of traditional west coast cuisine with Mediterranean and Asian flavours, Prestons restaurant opened as the culinary anchor in the new Coast Coal Harbour Hotel.
January 20, 2010
Restaurant News - 500 Robson a Japanese Street Food Stroll
A one block section of new fast food outlets brings Japan to the Robson Street Olympic Corridor
January 14, 2010
Previews - A third restaurant for Hapa Izakaya
Lea and Justin Ault of Vancouver’s Hapa Izakaya restaurant group, reveal their newest restaurant in Yaletown today.
January 12, 2010
Previews - A Sneak Peek at Glowbal Steak
A few quick photos showing the changes at glowbal restaurant which reopens tonight.
January 08, 2010
Previews - Academic Opens
Donnelly Group's latest pub features dishes such as Québécois poutine, grilled mini burgers, traditional Ukrainian perogies and beer battered fish and chips.
January 08, 2010
Restaurant News - Rosewood Awarded Management Contract for Hotel Georgia
Rosewood Hotels & Resorts has been chosen by Delta Group to manage the Hotel Georgia.
January 01, 2010
BEST DEALS on Meals - Best Deals on Meals for January 2010
A section where you can quickly find promotional price offers and special seasonal menus currently on offer. Updates daily.
December 16, 2009
Previews - Decor Details from the Corner Suite Bistro
After a five month delay, The Corner Suite Bistro de Luxe is close to opening...we hope.
December 12, 2009
Previews - Lupo to Open on December 16
Julio Gonzalez Perini and Michael Mameli are ready to welcome diners to their modern Italian eatery in Yaletown on Dec. 16.
December 11, 2009
Restaurant News - Blue Water Cafe's Unsung Heroes Menu Moves to January
Tuesday, January 5th marks the launch of executive chef Frank Pabst's annual "Unsung Heroes" festival at Blue Water Cafe
December 01, 2009
BEST DEALS on Meals - Best Deals on Meals for December 2009
A section where you can quickly find promotional price offers and special seasonal menus currently on offer. Updates daily.
November 24, 2009
Previews - Fuel Becomes ReFuel
Robert Belcham and Tom Doughty of Fuel and Campagnolo Restaurants, announce refuel, a neighborhood restaurant and bar specializing in Casual Northwest Cuisine.
November 20, 2009
Restaurant News - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
If your taste in Christmas runs to over the top tinsel kitsch, the Smile has it spades.
November 19, 2009
Previews - Browns Social House Reopens as Hub Restaurant and Lounge
After operating the Yaletown franchise of Browns Social House for three years, owner Bill Marsh closed Browns Social House and reopened in its place “Hub Restaurant and Lounge”.
November 10, 2009
Restaurant News - Fuel Closes to become Northwest Style Concept Restaurant
We have seen the landscape of the Vancouver dining scene change significantly and we are excited to change along with it” says Tom Doughty
November 09, 2009
BEST DEALS on Meals - Best Deals on Meals for November 2009
A section where you can quickly find promotional price offers and special seasonal menus currently on offer. Updates daily.
October 23, 2009
Previews - SOCIETY Opens on October 29, 2009
SOCIETY Dining Lounge - "a positively unpredictable new venue" - opens Thursday, October 29 at 1257 Hamilton Street in Vancouver's Yaletown
September 25, 2009
Previews - Pourhouse Opens in Gastown
Jay Jones' and Chris Irving's elegantly casual new restaurant serving homestyle cooking has opened in Yaletown.
August 11, 2009
Restaurant News - Campagnolo Uses Street Tactics
We noticed these signs tacked to the telephone poles in our neighbourhood, advising pedestrians that Campagnolo restaurant (1020 Main Street) was only 7 blocks away.
June 11, 2009
Restaurants That Twitter - BC Restaurants on Twitter
We've started an index of Restaurants that are now on Twitter. As more restaurants use this form of social marketing this list will grow.
June 04, 2009
Restaurant News - New Restaurants: Edge, Nook, and Crankies
Vancouver restaurant names are going geometric. The latest to join the emerging restaurant row in the Granville Entertainment District will be called The Edge Social Grille & Lounge.
May 28, 2009
Restaurant News - The Return of Wally's Burgers
Wally's Burgers, the iconic, '60s-vintage, fast food institution that closed its doors on Kingsway last year is coming back -- only, not to Kingsway.
May 07, 2009
Previews - Stella's on Cambie now Open
New businesses are cropping up along the Cambie corridor like the proverbial morels after the forest fire and not all of them are big box retailers. Take Stella's on Cambie for example ...
May 01, 2009
Previews - Heading for the Pourhouse
Following this week's surprise announcement that Mixologist Jay Jones would be leaving his position at Voya Restaurant and the Loden Hotel to open Pourhouse, his own bar and restaurant in Gastown, Jay has released some more details on the new project.
April 30, 2009
Previews - Local - New Restaurant for Summerland
"LOCAL – lounge • grille” will open in early July next door to the Summerland Waterfront Resort and Spa on Lakeshore Drive.
April 15, 2009
Previews - An Early Preview of the New Coast Restaurant and O Lounge
Coast Restaurant will soon be hauling up anchor at its original location in Yaletown and sailing downtown to a much larger berth on Alberni Street -- almost across the street from its sister restaurant, Italian Kitchen.
April 15, 2009
Restaurant News - Cibo and Moda Hotel Rated High on F&W Survey
According to Food & Wine Magazine, is Vancouver still one of the "top 10 food cities in the world" (as declared in their 2008 GO LIST issue)?
March 31, 2009
Restaurant News - Restaurant Hall of Fame Induction Dinner 2009
It was a big night for the 2009 BC Restaurant Hall of Fame Inductees, even if the real star of the show was the venue.
March 25, 2009
Previews - Raudz Opens in Kelowna
They're a couple of hot raudz. In tune with the times, Rod Butters and wife/partner Audrey Surrao have revamped and renamed their popular Okanagan restaurant. Here's all the details from their official stat sheet.
March 23, 2009
Restaurant News - Janet Maguire and Chef Carol Chow - Together Again
Maguire and Chow were a winning team at the old Beachside Cafe. Now they are working together once more at the newly renamed Teahouse in Stanley Park.
February 11, 2009
Previews - A Peek inside the St. Regis Hotel
Last night we were able to take a quick tour of the newly refurbished, 95-year-old St. Regis Hotel (Dunsmuir and Seymour Street) and liked what we saw.
February 07, 2009
Restaurant News - BCRFA Hall of Fame Announces Inductees for 2009
The BC Restaurant Hall of Fame has announced this year's inductees with the honours going to such well known industry members as restaurateurs Geoffrey Howes and David Aisenstat, Chef Thomas Haas and Chef Scott Jaeger. Writer Duncan Holmes was awarded a l
January 30, 2009
Restaurant News - Bishop's Honoured by Mobile Travel Guide
It came as a complete surprise, I opened the envelope and there was the notice," says John Bishop of the news he received yesterday that his restaurant, Bishop's, was one of only 159 in North America to be awarded the prestigious Four Star rating by Mobil
January 27, 2009
Restaurant News - Rod Butters announces Raudz at hospitality foundation dinner
It's not always easy for chefs participating at fundraising dinners to cut through the babble of happy diners and be heard when describing the course they have just brought out of the kitchen.
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