City Cruiser
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 :: 12:35 am
Streets of Barcelona.
Swan Feeder
Monday, November 28th, 2011 :: 10:43 pm
Sweet Obsession
Thursday, November 24th, 2011 :: 11:32 pm
My first time at the dessert place, Sweet Obsession on 16th and Trafalgar. On first look, the decoration was not all that elaborate, and the cakes look quite like the other cafe/cake shops.
Once I had a bite of their cakes, I knew why that place still had so many people late at night. The Chocolate Obsession was very very rich, and I don’t think I’ve had a quite a “hazelnuty-flavoured” cake (not even sure if that’s a word) with so much big chunks of the nut as the Chocolate Hazelnut Zuccotto. Quite a treat!
Suika
Thursday, November 24th, 2011 :: 2:56 pm
Another food outing. I promise this photoblog isn’t turning into a food blog anytime soon :-)
Suika is another Japanese izakaya restaurant (much like Guu) located on Broadway and Fir in Vancouver. ‘Suika’ actually means watermelon in Japanese – interesting. They replaced a Thai restaurant that was at that location. They’ve got a 88% rating on Urbanspoon and is one of the top Japanese restaurants in town. It was no surprise that they were still quite packed on a Wednesday night.
We ordered a variety of food from salads to fresh seafood to pressed sushi, an overall good mix. Their seafood is fresh, salad is well flavoured. The ma-po rice cake and Ebi-mayo could use a bit more work. Dish size wise they are about what you would expect from an izakaya place, and expect to spend roughly $20 per person to satisfy your stomach.
Pied-à-Terre
Friday, November 11th, 2011 :: 10:53 pm
Tonight a my friends and I checked out a French restaurant on Cambie called Pied-à-Terre. The friend who recommended it had already been two previous times, and liked the food and atmosphere. It’s a quaint little restaurant, reminded me of La Quercia – seats about 30 people with simple decoration.
Their prices were pretty reasonable at about $10 for an appetizer (which can almost double as an entree), $25-$30 for an entree, and ~$8 for dessert. We started with some bread, which this one I found to be one of the better ones! (I’m picky about my bread, heh). I got some awesome BC mussels with chirozo and tomato (big, fat juicy mussels – delicious by the way) as appetizer, duck three-ways as main, and an apple and calvados parfait to finish off. Great food!