Having a Ball at Bel: Hawksworth Mini-Bites at Rosewood Hotel Georgia

By |2019-10-08T16:47:37-07:00December 2nd, 2011|Belly's Best Bites, Belly's Budget Best, Ocean Wise, Sustainable|

Roasted Berkshire pork sandwich with red cabbage and mustard, Tim Pawsey photo The buzz at the Rosewood Georgia Hotel is mainly all about Hawksworth, and rightly so. But now newly unveiled "little sister" Bel Café, named after chef David Hawksworth's wife Annabel, and which wraps around the corner of Georgia and Howe, is [...]

On Vancouver’s Robson Street, (and on West Broadway) Everything Old is Nu Again

By |2019-02-10T11:04:01-08:00October 5th, 2011|Belly's Best Bites, Belly's Budget Best, Ocean Wise, Sustainable|

It’s a tasty irony indeed that Nu Greek Robson (542 Robson St., Vancouver) is right next door to Japadog (530 Robson St.)  Somehow the notion of having a direct descendant of the city’s original souvlaki mainstay side by side with east-meets-west hotdog heaven adds up to perfect bookends: a capsule of Vancouver’s ethnic [...]

In Vancouver, BC, Chef Meets Grape. And Sustainable Pink Salmon too

By |2019-11-19T16:42:25-08:00September 28th, 2011|Belly's Best Bites, Belly's Budget Best, Hired Belly's Best Wines, Ocean Wise, Sustainable|

Updated. April 13th, 2012. Here's a pretty solid endorsement of properly handled FAS salmon: Vancouver chefs salute FAS salmon Maybe it's a tipping point. A few things occured to me concerning the winner we picked at last week’s Chef Meets Grape Small Plates Challenge, organised by the BC Wine Institute. First of all, congrats [...]

Vancouver Icon Bishop’s Celebrates the Season with Harvest Table Dinners

By |2022-06-18T14:55:46-07:00September 8th, 2011|Belly's Best Bites, Ocean Wise, Sustainable, Uncategorized|

Not to pour cold water on Dine Out Vancouver’s impressive record, but we’ve always wondered why so many people wait for January to roll around, when there are other worthy dining deals on offer at all times of the year. Case in point: Bishop’s Harvest Table dinners (September 13th through October 20th), where [...]

Vancouver’s Gord Martin Dumps Bin 942 in Favour of Second Go Fish! (Now closed)

By |2021-11-20T08:38:32-08:00July 1st, 2011|Belly's Best Bites, Belly's Budget Best, Ocean Wise, Sustainable|

Gord Martin took a 2004 gamble with Go Fish and won, Tim Pawsey photo Updated: Please note: this location is closed. But the original outdoor location is still thriving ...   One of the rewards of taking too many photos is that eventually you can always find a reason to use at least [...]

Sustainable Spot Prawns Rule in Vancouver—at Least Until End of June

By |2018-01-21T15:05:40-08:00May 12th, 2011|Belly's Best Bites, Belly's Budget Best, Ocean Wise, Sustainable|

Is it possible there’s anyone in Vancouver who still doesn’t know it’s Spot Prawn season? Probably not. Even in the pouring rain, some 1100 or more of the faithful showed up last Saturday to the Fifth Annual Spot Prawn Festival for their first taste of the 2011 catch. The Chefs Table Society prawn [...]

WHERE Vancouver Announces 15th Annual Where to Dine Awards

By |2022-05-05T08:55:23-07:00April 28th, 2011|Belly's Best Bites, Ocean Wise, Sustainable, Travel|

WHERE Vancouver (to whom the Hired Belly supplies considerable calorific content) yesterday unveiled the 15TH Annual Where to Dine Awards. The well attended (and well-run) event was hosted in superb fashion by Blue Water Café, who, as usual, catered to their industry peers with an array of seafood towers, sushi and more, not [...]

What’s Red on the Outside and Green All Over? Vancouver’s Commune Café

By |2019-07-23T06:19:28-07:00March 4th, 2011|Belly's Best Bites, Belly's Budget Best, Sustainable, Uncategorized|

Vancouver’s been abuzz this past week with speculation concerning the imminent closure of what was supposed to be the long running extension of iconic lumiere and dbBistro,  on March 13th. It’s a sad development, considering the role that lumiere has played in Vancouver’s culinary ascendance. We won’t ruminate too much—except to say that the [...]

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