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TROUT LAKE FARMER’S MARKET
A favourite for local and organic
VancouverBY LINDA BATES produce and crafts. 9 am–2 pm,
Saturdays, May–Oct.
The Culinary Traveller’s Guide Trout Lake Park, East Vancouver.
For the entire list of farmers’ markets in
Neighbourhoods Scott Road. (There’s a smaller but still Vancouver, see www.eatlocal.org/markets.
interesting Indian area at Main St. and 49
th
COMMERCIAL DRIVE This traditionally Italian Ave in Vancouver.) New and Notable
VANCOUVER
and Portuguese area on Vancouver’s east ABSINTHE BISTRO Chef Corey Pearson
side now includes professionals and hipsters Markets went to France from Vancouver after
galore. The street is lined with coffee bars, finishing culinary school. Now he’s
restaurants of many ethnicities, and unique GRANVILLE ISLAND PUBLIC MARKET The brought his considerable talent back
stores like Fratelli’s Italian Bakery and the granddaddy of Vancouver markets, with home, creating light French-style dishes
organic butcher Pastures to Plate. several square blocks of farmers’ markets,
artists’ studios, performance spaces, sans heavy sauces. The prix fixe menu
GASTOWN Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhood restaurants and stores — including a top changes every month; three courses are
has long waited for its day in the sun. kitchenware store. Open daily, 9 am–7 pm. $38 and two courses just $28. The great
Excellent restaurants and stores with 1689 Johnston St. www.granvilleisland.com food and the small bistro atmosphere
original, locally made items are springing up can’t be beat. 1260 Commercial Dr.
everywhere. Pick up baked goods at Brioche, RICHMOND NIGHT MARKET Called the www.bistroabsinthe.com
or fresh organic meat at Save-On-Meats. largest Asian night market outside of Asia,
with prepared food, food products and BISTRO WAGON ROUGE More great
YALETOWN This former warehouse district other goods as well as performances from affordable French bistro food. Brad
boasts some of Vancouver’s best and most Chinese opera to Canto-pop. Open Friday Miller spent five years at the high-end
expensive restaurants, as well as the upscale and Saturday, 7 pm–11 pm, Sundays and Bistro Pastis before starting his own
food stores Choices and Urban Fare. Treat holidays, 6 pm–11 pm, May 17–Oct. 14. 8351 restaurant. The space is down near the
yourself to a meal at Blue Water, one of River Rd, Richmond. docks, the former site of the Dockers
Vancouver’s best seafood restaurants. www.richmondnightmarket.com Cafe. It could be parachuted into a little
RICHMOND This suburb to the French village and feel right at home
south of the city is a preferred Eat says restaurant critic Mia Stainsby.
destination for East Asian Ũ Vancouver’s great tastes. 1869 Powell St.
immigrants, mostly Chinese. Many đƫ Raincoast Crisps ASK FOR LUIGI It’s not Luigi at the
say the best Chinese food in North đƫ Oyama Sausage helm, but Jean Christophe Poirier,
America can be found here. As well as who learned his trade in French
restaurants there are food stores and malls đƫ Farmhouse Cheeses of Agassiz restaurants — although here he’s
packed with East Asian products. đƫ Salt Spring Island Lamb cooking Italian. Prepare to line up for
CHINATOWN The original home of đƫ Yarrow Meadows Duck his pastas (including a gluten-free one),
Vancouver’s Chinese immigrants still has sauces and appies. 305 Alexander St.
terrific budget Chinese restaurants, bakeries đƫ Oysters, Spot Prawns www.askforluigi.com
and produce, and some new, eclectic đƫ Northern Divine Caviar CUCHILLO Owner/chef Stu Irving has
restaurants. Pick up barbecue pork buns at
đƫ Sockeye Salmon, Sablefish cooked at two of Vancouver’s favourite
New Town Bakery or head directly to Phnom restaurants, Asian-fusion Wild Rice and
Penh restaurant, a Vancouver institution, for đƫ Fraser Valley Berries the now defunct Cobre. At Cuchillo
Vietnamese/Cambodian food.
đƫ Mikuni Wild Harvest the small plates tend toward Mexican
KITSILANO This hippie haven of the 1960s has Mushrooms but incorporate Peruvian, Chilean and
morphed into an upscale, uber-hip strip. Les Drink Colombian dishes too. 261 Powell St.
Amis du Fromage stocks 400–500 varieties of đƫ Fraser Valley Ũ www.Cuchillo.ca
cheese and offers meals and cheese plates. Grass-fed Beef FARMER’S APPRENTICE Chef David
Terra Breads features artisan breads and rustic Gunawan creates new recipes daily, on
pastries as well as a lunch menu. Vancouver’s great drinks. the spot. In summer, farmers bring in
đƫ Powell Street Craft Beer
SURREY It’s a bit of a hike from downtown, products that are at peak and Gunawan
but this suburb southeast of Vancouver is đƫ Granville Island Brewing Pale Ale transforms them. Although meat dishes
home to more than 100,000 immigrants of like quail and pork terrine are available,
South Asian, mostly Punjabi, origin. There are đƫ Howe Sound Honey Pale Ale the restaurant tends to focus on
countless restaurants and food stores, as well đƫ Okanagan Valley Wines vegetables. 1535 W. Sixth Ave.
as sari and fabric stores, in the area around www.farmersapprentice.ca

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