glowbal

glowbal
1079 Mainland Street Vancouver, BC
Phone: 604-602-0835

i love glowbal. and i really love the risotto. every time. this is the first of the glowbal group of restaurants, and it is consistent with the rest that i have been to. it's tasty, decently priced, the service is good, and they always have some yummy vegetarian option for me.

gerry got the raw beef with an extra bit of raw egg to top it off, also know as steak tartar. he loved it. seriously and fully loved it. 100%.


as i mentioned, i got the risotto because i love it. and a lovely salad for greens. the risotto is seriously a BOWL of it. there was no chance of me finishing it myself. in fact, even with ian and gerry's help, it didn't get finished. but it was glorious.

my cosmo was also D-vine.


ian got a chicken and a salmon satay to start. but these were food fails. okay, maybe not that extreme, but they were neither exciting nor lovely amazingness. the halibut, which was his main, was a total success.

salt

salt tasting room
45 Blood Alley, Gastown
Vancouver, BC, Canada
V6B 1C7
(604) 633 - 1912

we met up with our friend, pete, who was in town for one-night-only on thursday. i thought i'd show him a drug deal in blood alley. luckily, i didn't have to arrange one, cause it was already happening by the garbage bins on our way to salt.

we decided to get a flight of wine each, and then gerry, pete and i got cheese (and meat for the boys) with condiments. we just told our server what we didn't like, or what we especially liked and he magically paired everything up for us. it doesn't look like much food, but it was definitely enough.

me: white wines only, cheeses with not veins, and no meat
pete: red wine only, some meat, some cheese, bluer is better
gerry: mixed wines, mixed cheese and meat



double tasty. pete was super-impressed with the blue cheese and honey combo. i was loving the peaches and ashy cheese. gerry thought the meats were yummy.

we all really liked it, and at $15/flight, $15/platter, it wasn't super dear. dodgy alley to get there, but totally worth it. also good? this time when we were there, it didn't feel like hipster wanna be central. maybe that's the bonus of going on a thursday?

italian kitchen

The Italian Kitchen
1037 Alberni Street Vancouver, BC, V6E 1A1
604-687-2858

We were going to go to Trattoria, on W4th, but because of my messed up foot, we decided to stick closer to the hotel and then get a cab from the restaurant to Bard on the Beach.

the food was delicious.


we started with the burrata salad, which we both give two thumbs up. 'it was tasty gorgeous,' says gerry.

gerry followed his with the Pappardelle Lamb Sausage (lamb sausage pasta) and 'that was delish'.


i had the gnocchi, and a bellini martini. while i didn't love the martini, and regretted not going for the watermelon mojito special, i loved the gnocchi.


we both felt the pasta portions were ginormous, and were going to make an effort at dessert (and therefore stopped eating our mains before we reached the end) but we were just too stuffed.

gourmet food, home-style portion size.

4 stars. can't wait to go back.

earls, south surrey

7-1767 152 Street
Surrey, British Columbia
V4A 4N3
Phone: 604.536.8700
Fax: 604.536.0087

earls at this location isn't bad. in fact, it's pretty good. the service tends to be prompt and friendly and the food is generally consistent decent quality.

for the price, it beats other chains, and at this location, at least the staff aren't dressed like whores.

my favourite dish these days is the beat salad with goat's cheese and figs.

DO TRY: the garlic bread, the fries

we'll probably go here lots more. it's decently priced, consistent and yummy. not amazing, but good.

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