Beyond the Rhetoric

My Dine Out Vancouver 2012 adventures continued at Chambar, a restaurant that was founded on Belgian cuisine, but has since looked to expand its scope into just being a great restaurant. Even so, the Belgian roots remain quite clear in this Gastown area eatery, complete with a huge selection of Belgian beers. For this go [...]

Following up on my first Dine Out Vancouver 2012 experience at Black+Blue Steakhouse, we made our way onto our second food adventure. This time around, we visited Fleuri inside the Sutton Place Hotel in Downtown Vancouver. While I was expecting more of a “restaurant,” Fleuri is probably better described as a hotel dining room. It’s [...]

When you think about some of the best “restaurant” neighborhoods in and around Vancouver, places like Yaletown and Gastown come to mind. What I’m quickly discovering, though, is that the North Burnaby area of Willingdon Heights also has more than its fair share of interesting eateries. These include spots like Bombay Beat Restaurant for East [...]

There was a lot of hype surrounding this place when it officially opened its doors a couple of years ago. Here was a hot shot chef from overseas who had won several awards for his Taiwanese beef noodle soup and he was opening a restaurant in Aberdeen Centre in Richmond. It had to be good, [...]

As is the case with everywhere that I travel, one of my bigger goals while here in Australia is to enjoy some of the local fare. Our first stop in the Land Down Under was Cairns and our first experience with “authentic” Aussie “nosh” was at The Raw Prawn. Located on the esplanade (not far [...]