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 [...]

Feast of Fields: Today More Relevant Than Ever to Local Food Production

By |2022-10-05T15:04:37-07:00August 23rd, 2012|Beer, Belly's Best Bites|

  FarmFolk CityFolk is one of BC's longest established proponents of locally grown food Food and wine celebrations come and go but one of the longest running—unquestionably because its very telling relevance continues to resonate—is Feast of Fields, the notable outdoor graze that now unfolds in three incarnations: Metro Vancouver, Vancouver Island and [...]

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