-crusted brie with a fruit sauce (idiotically served with garlic bread, but they brought regular bread on request), spicy yam frites), good butter chicken, lovely mashed potato spring rolls. Quite enjoyed a BC Inniskil pinot...

answers)...Guu (Garlic or Original), Hapa, Kingyo will give you a nice survey of the izakaya scene. Then look here for more advice on particular dishes and other tips, etc: http://www.chow.com/stories/10980 . The writer of the...

such an awesome selection of beer that should be a lure, unless they just want Heineken :-(. The other idea you could try is an izakaya. I defy anyone to have a rotten time at Guu with Garlic — my dear old dad loves it. The...

Thank you for this discussion on buta no kakuni. I want to try making it. In Vancouver we have a few Izakaya restaurants, my favourute being Kitanoya Guu With Garlic on Robson St. They serve a buta no kakuni that is sublime. The...

: Boneta, Fuel or Aurora (West Coast) Vij’s (Modern Indian) Octopus' Garden (sushi) or Guu with Garlic (izakaya) or Hapa in Kits (izakaya) Kirin on Cambie or Alberni (Chinese) Pied-a-Terre or Bistrot (French) Thanksgiving is a...

Vietnamese/Cambodian: Phnom Penh 244 East Georgia Street. Order the hot and sour soup with prawns, whole crab if available, Chinese greens, butter beef, and the house signature whole baby garlic squid with lemon pepper sauce....

Globefish is good, but I find it a little too fusion-ny. I just don’t have a hankering for their rolls, as it seems the three times I’ve been there for lunch, they put garlic chips, sesame oil, or something else that...

Don’t despair — lotsa options here! Definitely do the izakaya thing. My personal faves are Guu with Garlic and Zakkushi on 4th but there are a number of commentaries here if you search; here’s mine on a recent...

-Nell/FavoriteDessert.jpg For dinner that night, we went to Guu with Garlic. We really enjoyed the food we got, but found the experience to be a little overwhelming. I probably should have gotten advice on what and how to order,...

Agree with fmed definitely for Vij’s, Parkside, La Buca... also with earlier mention of Chambar. Aurora was great- we will miss it. Try also Cassis, Cobre, Tapastree and Guu gastown location.

://www.julesbistro.ca Hapa Izakaya or Kitanoya Guu is a local fav for izakaya – Japanese tapas.

found the roasted garlic flavour on the garlic naan to be a bit too pronounced (SO disagreed). The gulab jamun was a bit on the mushy side (I prefer it to be a bit firm/crispy on the outside), but was nonetheless quite tasty....