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It’s confirmed that this year’s Celebration of Light will be taking place during the month of July! The shows will be on the following dates, starting at about 10:00 pm:
Location: English Bay (map) SkyTrain Stop: Waterfront Station, Bus #006 Price: FREE More Info? http://www.celebration-of-light.com/
Calling all oyster lovers! Here’s a list of buck a shuck oyster joints in Vancouver. Boathouse (Various Locations) – Daily from 3-6pm, appetizers from $2.79 and drinks specials from $4.99 Coast (1054 Alberni Street, Vancouver)- Daily from 3-5pm, also a dozen peel and eat shrimp for $12 Ebisu (827 Bute Street) – Daily from 4:30-6:30pm, with lots of happy hour specials La Brasserie (1091 Davie Street, Vancouver) - After 9pm and during Sunday brunch Relish Gastro Pub (888 Nelson Street, Vancouver) – Daily from 3-6pm Rodney’s Oyster House (1228 Hamilton Street, Vancouver) - Monday to Saturday from 3-6pm
I absolutely LOVE Soju. Soju is a Korean vodka that goes very well with meals. Some people drink it straight from the bottle in shot glasses. The Soju drink above is mixed with a yogurt drink, which you find in small little bottles in Asian supermarkets. This drink goes very well with spicy foods.
My favourite aspect about eating at Korean restaurants, are the side dishes that come with your meal. They’re always full of flavour and they usually give you a great variety. I noticed that we didn’t get the same dishes as some of the Korean customers, because we got an odd salad for a side dish which is not a regular. From the bottom left side going clockwise: sweet potato, marinated bean sprout, seaweed salad, kimchi (spicy cabbage), and the salad.
It was quite late in the evening, so we didn’t want to order too much. We got a bbq combo, where you choose one meat dish and you get to choose one of the 3 soups (kimchi, bean, or tofu) for $12.95. We got the doeji bulgoki (spicy pork marinated in Korean style spicy sauce) and the tofu soup, which also comes with one bowl of rice. This was enough for two people and an extra bowl of rice was $1.95. The pork dish was a little greasy, but it was still very good. It was sauteed with mushrooms and carrots, in a sweet and spicy sauce. The tofu soup was delicious – it unexpectedly had some seafood in it. We found small oysters and shrimp, which made the soup very flavourful. Location: 847 Denman Street Vancouver, BC (map) SkyTrain Stop: Burrard Station, Bus #005 from Burrard and Robson Street Price: $5-$30
We went to Gotham’s for our New Years Eve dinner and it was absolutely spectacular. I was blown away by the restaurant, the food, and the service. The great thing about downtown Vancouver restaurants, is that many of them offer cheap valet parking (under $10). You don’t have search for parking when it’s raining outside! I arrived back to Vancouver in the morning, after the airport lost my luggage, so I wasn’t a happy camper. BUT Gotham’s made my day and the dinner was a great way to end 2009.
I can still taste all the food we ate. We had the crab cakes and rockefeller oysters to start. The crab cakes were small, but they were 75% crab meat. I’ve never had rockefeller oysters before and they were amazing, but very filling. You get half a dozen small oysters cooked with a creamed spinach topping. One appetizer would have been enough for us. We decided to go-all-out and celebrate the end of 2009 – I got the New York steak and lobster (in the picture above with the sides) and he got the porterhouse steak. The steak literally melted in my mouth. I never had steak like this before. The lobster came in the tail, but was removed at the table. My partner also enjoyed the porterhouse, because you can taste the quality of how the meat was aged. We also had mashed potatoes and onion rings as sides. It was way too much food for the two us, but it was all good and I have no complaints. Even though we were super full, we had to finish off our meal with the belgian chocolate bourbon cake.
Location: 615 Seymour Street Vancouver, BC (map) SkyTrain Stop: Granville Station Price: $30-$50 for steak entree More Info? http://www.gothamsteakhouse.com
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