Restaurants: Tojo’s, Vancouver, BC: Where’s the sushi?
We had high hopes for Vancouver’s Tojo’s restaurant. It’s gotten a ton of press over the years as one of the best Japanese restaurants in the city – though also one of the priciest.
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Restaurants: Blue Water Cafe: Solid seafood in Vancouver
To celebrate Jay’s birthday in Vancouver, on what was apparently one of the rainiest days on record, we decided to drown our sorrows with some seafood at the Blue Water Café, widely acknowledged as the best seafood restaurant in the city.
Restaurants: Kirin: Delicious dim sum in Vancouver’s “new” Chinatown
We decided to try the Richmond branch of the Vancouver mini-chain Kirin, a large restaurant filled with Chinese families on the second floor of a nondescript mall (as most good Chinese restaurants seem to be!). Though Kirin didn’t offer the dim sum wheeled around on carts that we love, we were impressed with the huge menu featuring some unusual choices. (And we ended up totally over-ordering.)
Wineries: O’ Canadian Wine!
That’s right. Canada has wine. Gallons of the stuff. And not just Inniskillin Ice Wine found at better boutique wine shops – like Duty Free at JFK. I’m talking some amazing Cabs, Pinots, Zweigelts, Merlots, and Blaufrankischs that rival the best of the US west, Germany and Austria.
