Review: YEW Restaurant and Bar, Vancouver

Hey, you! More like: Hey! YEW! The Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver’s Yew Restaurant and Bar has revamped its menu. Following the trend towards sharing plates and lighter dining, new Executive Chef Ned Bell has taken the modern dining concept oceanwards, presenting an almost entirely seafood-based menu, much of it meant … Read More

Review: Bangkok Garden Restaurant, Toronto

What would modern Toronto be without Thai food? Over the past decade, Thai restaurants have emerged, Gap-like, at seemingly every corner. Popular favourites include Yonge Street’s Salad King, Roncesvalles’ Thai Chef and Cabbagetown’s Thai to Go. Still, none of the former can compete with one of Toronto’s original Thai restaurants, … Read More

Review: Tableau Bar Bistro, Vancouver

This summer, Vancouver’s boutique Loden Hotel revamped its restaurant and went from fine dining to bistro fare. Adding a patio and decreasing inside seating, the room itself also went under the knife; post-surgery, it was dressed up in a mildly nautical theme, and the outcome gave it a roomier feel … Read More

Vancouver’s SUSTENANCE Festival

Celebrate Vancouver’s food history during the annual SUSTENANCE: Feasting on Art & Culture Festival at Yaletown’s Roundhouse Community Centre, this year from October 8 – 19. SUSTENANCE is a partnership between FarmFolk CityFolk and the Roundhouse that started in 2009; the festival considers food through the eyes of art and … Read More

Pizzeria Farina: Vancouver’s Newest Non-Neapolitan Joint

Don’t take the location literally. Sure, it’s shoehorned into a dark corner of the deliciously seedy Cobalt Hotel, and occupies a space previously occupied by a series of dubious by-the-slice purveyors, but Pizzeria Farina isn’t your typical hole-in-the-wall pizza joint. Striking a delicate (and deceptive) balance between high-concept and low … Read More

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