Infinity Dining Experience
Address: 819 Pacific Street (map)
Phone: 604-684-2529
homepage
Quick Bite: Terrific Steaks, Familiar Service, ad infinitum
By Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver Editor
Cactus Club, Earls, Joeys, Moxie’s – Vancouver has no shortage of what locals term casual fine dining (CFD). Local food critics and enthusiasts have been known to debate the merit of these chains, [...]

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On Thursday the 26th, enRoute magazine released its list of Canada’s best new restaurants for 2006. Vancouver is represented with the top pick, Nu, and the fifth pick, Rare. The list is as follows.
1. Nu, BC
2. Capo Calgary, AB
“Elegant, luxurious and sophisticated, this capo rules with a velvet glove.”
3. Dayboat Hunter River, PEI
“Outside [...]

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This just in:
Salt Tasting Room in Gastown is saying goodbye to general manager Chris Stearns, who has completed his six-month contract with the restaurant.
Stearns was an integral part of Salt’s development, and was responsible for guiding the restaurant through it’s opening, designing Salt’s innovative wine program, and assembling a “dream team” staff, including Jay Jones [...]

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Urban Diner, as well as other sources are reporting that The Urban Well in Kits is shutting down next week, and shall be replaced by Hapa Izakaya, which has gained fame on Robson. Urban Diner is correct in reporting what anyone who has dined at both Urban Well and Haba Izakaya will tell you: [...]

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Just a quick reminder, as if you needed one, that the Cornucopia celebration at Whistler is coming up (Nov 9th - 12th). There are always a lot of great wine tasting and seminars, as well as opportunities to try local cuisine in some beautiful spots. I’ve never been to any of the extravagant [...]

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Nu
Address: 1661 Granville St (map)
Phone: 604-646-4668
homepage
Quick Bite: Nu’s Worthy Jazz Brunch
By Jason Chin and Desmond Cheung
Food Writers
I love brunch as an opportunity to try a restaurant that might be slightly out of my price range. It’s also a great meal, situated such that one can wake up late, enjoy a big [...]

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Rocky Mountain Flatbread Company
Address: 1876 W 1st Avenue (map)
604-730-0321
hours available on homepage
** (of four stars)
Incendio
Kitsilano - 2118 Burrard St (map)
604-736-2220
Gastown - 103 Columbia St (map)
604-688-8694
hours available on homepage
* and 1/2 (of four stars)
Scenes from some Italian Restaurants
By Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver Editor
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
A welcomed trend has recently emerged in Vancouver in the form of [...]

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Wing Nuts
Address: 4444 Main Street (map)
Phone: 604-874-9874
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Quickbite: Wing Nuts
By Daniel Fishman
Eat Vancouver columnist
Wing Nuts specializes in—you guessed it—chicken wings, a specialty which seems to be somewhat lacking around Vancouver. Lets face it, most of the wings you get in bars and pubs around here make “substandard” sound pretty good. So when the Oakman [...]

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Interview Series Part 2. Reigning in Connor Butler
By Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver Editor
Monday, October 9th, 2006
Connor Butler has been a popular topic of discussion ever since industry folk caught wind of his tongue-in-cheek website, announcing his self-titled restaurant. The biography on the website was borderline egomaniacal and the menu was borderline ridiculous. Butler [...]

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Interview Series Part I. A Chat with Sean Heather
By Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver Editor
Sunday, October 1st, 2006
I recently had the chance to sit down with Vancouver restaurateur, Sean Heather, in Salt, one of his newer ventures. Heather has been highly influential in shaping Vancouver’s dining landscape over the past several years. His several [...]

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