Ryu69's Profile
Izakaya & Vancouver
If you are looking for good atmosphere and pretty good food with a few drinks, you should go to Hapa on Robson downtown. The place is always busy on weekends. Go to the Robson one only, not the Kits one.
Recs for 1st time Vancouver
if you like southern bbq. memphis blues on broadway and granville is good.
Questions re Vancouver dining
1. Vij's IMO is very overrated. Expensive for not very good fusion indian food. If you want good authentic indian food, you should go to Tandoori King on Fraser Street. It is a drive from Downtown though. If you want a good inidian buffet, Saffron in Burnaby is good. I think the buffet is at lunch and only at dinner from sunday to wed or thurs.
2. Hmm. Not sure about healthy. You can pick up breakfast from Urban Fare (an urban supermarket with a deli style place to get food and hot meals) and go sit by the water and eat breakfast there. It is on Davie street past Pacific. The water is right by there.
3. If you are in Yaletown, Chinatown is right by there. There is Floata in Chinatown, but if you want the push carts, you can try Pink Pearl as that is a dim sum place most tourists go to. Also Sun Sui Wah on Main street which is sort of on the way to the airport. There isn't many downtown unless you go to Victoria Garden (Royal Centre) or Imperial (By Waterfront Skytrain station on Burrard street). Not sure when they start serving, but most places start at 9 or 10.
If you want a good steak. go to Gotham on seymour. best steaks in town. As for lunch, you can always take the water taxi from yaletown to granville island and they have some good places there like bridges and sand bar. Memphis Blues is great for southern BBQ. If you want good quick chinese food, there is Hon's on robson or in chinatown. Japanese food, Temaki sushi on west broadway and arbutus is good, but if you want more quick sushi, Samuari on davie is good and cheap. Sip Resto Lounge is a good place to eat on have drinks, right on Granville Street where all the clubs and bars are.
Hope this helps.
KITSILANO WEST BROADWAY AREA
Temaki Sushi is a good place to go for some good fresh sushi. it is Broadway just a bit past arbutus.
