Savvy Gastown restaurateur Sean Heather is very close to opening his latest venture, Judas Goat Taberna, a Spanish-inspired tasting bar in Blood Alley just a stone’s throw from his popular, award-winning Salt Tasting Room.
The brand new Robert Lee YMCA facility scheduled to open on May 3rd, 2010 at 955 Burrard Street, across from the Scotiabank Theatre, is looking for a Food Service Operator for their new cafe space inside the building. ~ PK
Two new modern Asian-inspired additions are on their way to Chinatown in the next couple of months and both of them look very promising. Building upon an under-served trend set in motion back in 2001 by early neighborhood pioneer, Wild Rice, the soon to be open Bao Bei and The Keefer Bar are both also embracing some of their Far Eastern roots with a well tempered Western sensibility that expresses itself in the modern decor, quality bar programs and European influenced kitchens.
Paul Grunberg (former GM of Chambar and Market at Shangri-La) has left his post with Jean-Georges to help out his former Chambar colleague, Tannis Ling, to successfully open Bao Bei in Chinatown.
Chambar alumni and accomplished bar veteran Tannis Ling is getting set to open her Chinese brasserie “Bao Bei” (‘precious’ in Chinese) by the end of December 2009 with a total of 50 seats (10 at the bar).
She describes the food primary restaurant as an “intimate, unpretentious room serving simple, traditional and quality dishes.”
Ling will be overseeing the bar program and talented chef, Joel Watanabe, (formerly of La Brasserie, Bin 942, and Araxi) heads up the team in the kitchen, which will offer an array of “Shanghai-nese” style dishes. Former Chambar colleague and previous GM of Market at Shangri-La, Paul Grunberg, has also joined the opening management team.
Bao Bei
163 Keefer Street | Vancouver
604-688-0876
info@bao-bei.ca
www.bao-bei.ca
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