aggregated from: Beyond Robson

The House of Switzerland opened on Friday, exactly one week before the Opening Ceremonies. Located in Bridges Restaurant on Granville Island, the two-storey yellow structure will be adorned with the red and white colours of Switzerland until February...

topics: granville-island, restaurant

aggregated from: Vancouverite

When I first hear that during the games there would be some sort of fun, French, temporary hangout on Granville Island I was intrigued. Now combine this disappointing menu with the 1.8km fail that is the street car experiment and I'm pretty sure I ca...

topics: cheese, granville-island, menu, olympics, salmon

aggregated from: Chow Times

Polly and I wanted to check out the street car installed for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic which travels between the Olympic Village Canada Line Station and Granville Island from Jan 21 to March 21. So, we had our Friday cake meet at Wicked Cafe at 13...

topics: cafe, coffee, granville-island

aggregated from: Vancouverite

Admitadly, I'm not very good with math. Squeaked by with a C-, a lot. But I'm having a very hard time understanding the economics and numbers for spending $8.5 million to refurbish some rail lines to operate a glorified bus from Olympic Station to Gr...

aggregated from: Chow Times

Here it is & the final list of Top Vancouver Restaurants which rounds up the Top 20. I had earlier reviewed the top 10 restaurants here (1-5) and here (6-10) and here (11-15).RankThe Restaurant We Review[Click Image for Post]The Food We Tried[Click f...

topics: cafe, cheese, fish, granville-island, kitsilano

aggregated from: Chow Times

Another Friday.This time Suanne and I wanted to try something that is out of the ordinary. We went to a restaurant that is somewhat shy of publicity. You don t normally read about them but you hear about them by word of mouth.The Salt Tasting Room ...

topics: butcher, cheese, gastown, granville-island, restaurant

aggregated from: Chow Times

The best fish and chips in Vancouver is not a a place where you would stumble upon despite its close proximity to the one of top tourist destination in Vancouver, Granville Island.Even if you so happen to stumble upon it, you would probably not give ...

topics: dim-sum, false-creek, fish, granville-island, halibut

aggregated from: Vancouverite

I want to live, at least for a little while, in Salt Tasting Room's cellar fridge (Blood Alley, Gastown). The Cheese. The wine. The cool air. Last night at Salt's tasting dinner for Okanagan wineries Le Vieux Pin & La Stella was phenomenal. The final...

topics: cheese, gastown, granville-island, okanagan, poets

aggregated from: Vancouverite

Vancouver's Granville Island Brewing Co. is now owned by Molson Coors. Not that you'd know by the media advisory they sent me this afternoon. Granville Island Brewing and Ontario-based Creemore Springs Brewery are planning to join forces, to continu...

aggregated from: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

I started shooting as a magazine photographer around 1976 and until the late 90s when magazines began a decline in quantity, quality and editorial space I guarded my sources for stuff jealously. Before the advent of Google (have we forgotten about Al...