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From the monthly archives:

March 2008

Deconstructing Bishop

by admin 03.15.2008

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A year ago I was researching a story on John Bishop for the 2007 Van Mag awards issue. I talked about his reach as a chef, interviewed many of the people who’d gone through his restaurant over two decades (Allemeier, Vij, Durbach, Van Geest, Feenie, the list is endless), and googled the crap out of [...]

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From the Dept. of Press Releases…

by admin 03.14.2008
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Jobs Omnibus Vol. 5

by admin 03.13.2008
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UD First Look @ Uva

by admin 03.12.2008

Uva Wine Bar in the Moda Hotel

I had my first drink at Uva last night. The new wine bar in the Moda Hotel is a looker. Don’t let the blue light in my shitty little home video deter you. There is no fluorescent blue light casting its ugliness about. My camera is just a hand [...]

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Falling For Fraîche

by admin 03.12.2008

I had a very lovely meal with Michelle up at Fraîche tonight. It’s a stunner of a brand new restaurant from Crave’s owner/chef Wayne Martin, and though deep in the recessed upper residential strata of The Republic of Range Rovia West Vancouver, it reminds me of very modern hotel restaurant lounge in the heart of [...]

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Cassis Bistro For Sale

by admin 03.12.2008

West Pender’s charming Cassis Bistro is on the market:

Voted best new restaurants in Vancouver by Georgia Straight, and top ten in Canada by En Route Magazine! Character galore. Great systems allow it to operate without a high paid chef. Very profitable. Franchise ready for the right person.
Price: $220,000
Lease Rate: $1,000/square feet

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The CTS Elixir Dinner

by admin 03.11.2008

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Monday was a great night for the restaurant scene. The CTS Fermentation and Cultured Foods Dinner at Elixir (backstory) was a tremendous success, the collaborations on both the front and back of house a blast (I hope the sell-out crowd felt they were getting their moneys [...]

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A Blog I Really Like

by admin 03.11.2008

I like Robert Csar, coffee guy.
Work sometimes = hassle. You have in your mind the perfect customer (usually orders a single espresso and invites you to share the other half, then congratulates you on the perfect mottling in the crema) for your new cafe and then comes reality biting at your heels with almost [...]

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Cry Freedom And The Check, Please

by admin 03.11.2008

Back in 2000, an Irish restaurant critic was successfully sued for libel after he tore apart a West Belfast pizzeria. Her paper was ordered to pay 25,000 pounds in damages. In a victory for press freedom, a high court ruling overturned the decision yesterday.

Irish News editor Noel Doran told The Guardian that the ruling [...]

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From Urban Diner…

by admin 03.10.2008

We are happy to welcome food and beverage photographer Jackie Connelly to the Urban Diner community.

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From the Dept. of Press Releases…

by admin 03.10.2008
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Boulud Is Coming To Vancouver

by admin 03.09.2008

UPDATE: see the design schematics of the new restaurants here.
Lumiere and Feenies owners David and Manjy Sidoo have traded in their Mercedes for a Rolls.
The much bally-hooed exit of chef Rob Feenie from their restaurants will likely be forgotten by the summer, when celebrity chef, cookbook author, and astute business man Daniel Boulud (bio) opens [...]

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