Vancouver Recommendations
My Vancouver recommendations are pretty out of date. I haven’t tried a lot of the new trendy places.
Coffee / Bakeries / Desserts
Timbertrain (Gastown) - great almond croissant too. It’s warm if you go early in the morning!
Patisserie Lebeau (Granville Island) - liege waffles
8 Juice (Richmond) - mango sago
Dragon Ball Tea House 龙珠茶园 (King Edward) - bubble tea shop. Mango is amazing. As is avocado.
Excellent Tofu & Snacks 好好豆品 (Richmond) - Tofu pudding
Bars
Pourhouse (Gastown) - great cocktails and bar bites (Scotch egg)
Restaurants
Japanese:
Kingyo (Downtown) - Izakaya. Great takowasa and hot stone grills
Suika (Granville) - Izakaya. Sister restaurant to Kingyo
Miku (Downtown) - aburi salmon sushi
Santouka (Downtown) - ramen
Tetsu Sushi Bar (Downtown) - sushi
Kohaku (Downtown) - ten-don (tempura over rice)
Chinese:
The Fish Man 渔人 (Richmond) - seafood focused Sichuan restaurant. Get the BBQ Grill fish with lingcod, spicy clams, razor clams, and chicken gizzard skewers. Skip the pickled cabbage fish.
Landmark Hotpot House 春秋火锅 (Cambie) - hotpot and salt & pepper crab
Deer Garden Signatures 鹿园鱼汤米线 - rice noodle soup in a fish broth
Ho Yuen Kee Restaurant 何原记 (Fraser) - classic Cantonese. Lobster steamed sticky rice!
Lido Restaurant 丽都 (Richmond) - HK-style cafe cha chaan teng
Nightingale (Downtown)
L’abattoir (Gastown) - great cocktails and good food
Places I want to try
Haven’t tried these yet, but they came highly recommended from friends
Chambar (Downtown)
OEB Breakfast Co (Yaletown)
Phnom Penh (Chinatown) - Viet-Cambodian
Kissa Tanto (Chinatown) - Italian-Japanese food and cocktails in 60’s Tokyo jazz cafe setting
Como Taperia (Main Street) - Spanish
Yunshang Rice Noodle House 云尚 (Richmond) - Yunan rice noodle soup
Xiang Yuan Qiao 香沅桥 (Richmond) - Yunan rice noodle soup
No.9 Restaurant 九记 (Richmond) - Canto
Tanlu Grill 探炉烤肉 (Richmond) - Chinese BBQ
Miss Fu In Chengdu 付小姐在成都 (Richmond) - Sichuan skewers
Busy Cows 耍牛忙串串香 (Richmond) - CHinese BBQ skewers
Chez Christophe (Burnaby) - pastries