Coast Turns 20: 5 Great Reasons to Go

By |2023-02-05T08:56:33-08:00February 4th, 2023|Dining, Latest Posts|

Coast Restaurant just clocked two decades. It’s hard to believe, as I remember vividly the opening. At the time, Coast was a spectacular addition to Alberni Street, which was still pretty low key in those days. A menu centrepiece was the seafood tower, which was all the rage at the time. [...]

Lot185 Café + Wine Bar: 5 Reasons to Go

By |2023-05-09T09:08:09-07:00September 30th, 2018|Dining, Belly's Best Bites|

Lot185 is a new spot downtown with plenty of promise. If you look back a while, there wasn’t a whole lot happening around what’s now Jack Poole Plaza. Then along came Cactus Club, followed by Tap & Barrel. And now, perhaps not surprisingly, Vancouver Trade & Convention Centre has thrown its hat into the [...]

Red Racer + Dix Redux = Good Brews News

By |2020-05-17T19:41:38-07:00July 30th, 2015|Beer, Dining|

  Red Racer Restaurant has landed—with a few taps to go along... The Big Brews News of the month is that Central City Brewing’s much anticipated Red Racer Restaurant has landed in downtown Vancouver, in the old Dix BBQ & Brewery spot. (871 Beatty St.) And, no surprise, there’s a whole raft of Red [...]

Faubourg Paris’ Franck Point: Croissant Crusader

By |2019-02-12T16:08:30-08:00July 27th, 2014|Dining|

Faubourg Paris' Franck Point: croissant crusader Franck Point is fanatical about croissants. In fact you could call him a ‘croissant crusader’ and he likely wouldn’t object. Point is the man behind Faubourg Paris, those pretty swish looking, chandelier-trimmed artisan bakery-bistros popping up all around town (there are three so far, all busy), where you [...]

The Roof at Hotel Vancouver Re-Opens as a Pop Up

By |2018-01-21T15:05:18-08:00February 4th, 2014|Belly's Best Bites, Travel|

The Roof is back! Martinis too, Tim Pawsey photo UPDATED, March 25th, 2014... From the announcement: "…It’s official – The Roof is now open!   After several unexpected delays, the doors swung open this morning.   Thank you for your patience and on behalf of the team at The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, we look forward [...]

The Rain at Grain Stays Mainly on the Pane

By |2022-04-16T10:51:59-07:00August 9th, 2013|Belly's Best Bites|

 Grain’s slide-away wall brings Burrard Street right inside A breath of fresh air Regional cuisine is not what first used to come to mind at The Hyatt Regency Vancouver. However, all that has now changed. The main floor bar (just off the lobby, overlooking Burrard near Melville) has been convincingly reinvented and [...]

5 Reasons Why, Even in the Rain, this Cactus will Soon be Flourishing

By |2023-03-03T17:57:12-08:00May 7th, 2013|Belly's Best Bites|

Cactus Club Coal Harbour is Vancouver's ultimate destination for a spectacular Summer's afternoon. Here's what we found, inside looking out from that "giant dormer" mentioned further on ... Essentially, at the the push of a button, the entire wall of windows slides aside to bring the outside in. They've dubbed it the "Sea to [...]

Bella Gelateria’s James Coleridge Named an Ace Bakery Artisan

By |2019-10-08T16:53:41-07:00March 30th, 2013|Restaurant Reviews|

Bella Gelateria's James Coleridge No half measures in James Coleridge's gelato conquering world, Tim Pawsey photo We’re big fans of Bella Gelateria. In part it’s because we never know what the extraordinarily talented James Coleridge will get up to next. Another reason: if you walk by his always-busy storefront at the corner of Vancouver’s Burrard and Cordova, no [...]

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