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My Vancouver recommendations are pretty out of date.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