Great Value Bites and a Smart New Wine at Edible Canada

By |2021-01-29T18:38:53-08:00November 15th, 2012|Belly's Budget Best|

Another winner from Okanagan Crush Pad Now Closed. A few weeks ago we dropped byEdible Canada at the Market(1596 Johnston St. 604-682-6681) for a post theatre, late night bite. (Somehow a trip to Chile in between derailed our good intentions to post about it sooner.) It’s also been a while since we wrote at length about [...]

Vancouver’s Le Parisien: a Worthy Tribute to the Original Café de Paris – Fall Menu update

By |2019-02-22T08:58:47-08:00October 27th, 2012|Belly's Best Bites|

Mmmm! Smoked chicken liver and foie gras parfait. Just mildly addictive. TP photo CLOSED   Updated Oct 23, 2012. It’s not unusual for new restos to tweak things as they go along but we’re more than intrigued by Le Parisien’s just launched “petits plats”—a definite nod to Spanish tapas, with some excellent [...]

Great First Tastes at La Pentola della Quercia, in Vancouver’s Opus Hotel

By |2021-11-15T09:08:26-08:00October 11th, 2012|Belly's Best Bites, Dining, Restaurant Reviews|

Minestrone: a steaming bowl of seasonally appropriate goodness, TP photo CLOSED   We’re always intrigued when a leading hotel decides to work with a celebrated restaurant–as opposed to running its own in-house operation. We watched with interest over the last couple of years the machinations surrounding the pop-ups at Opus Hotel, which [...]

Cozy and Tasty on The Drive: Tunisian Treats at Carthage Café

By |2018-01-21T15:05:32-08:00October 9th, 2012|Belly's Best Bites|

A warm and welcoming interior .... Updated, March 31, 2014.  I committed The inexcusable sin the other night, by arriving late for a reservation which in itself allowed too little time to dine properly before heading off to the York Theatre. In my mind I had thought it would be easy to order [...]

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