Street food review: Cactus Club Cafe concession

On the day of the annual fireworks competition at English Bay, I wandered past to the Cactus Club Cafe on the beach and decided to try the concession stand. At a glance, the concession menu looks like just about any concession stand menu.  Beef and chicken burgers, veggie burgers and tacos, fries, soft drinks.  But…

Restaurant review: Modern City Chinese Restaurant

This particular restaurant space in Kerrisdale has been a bit of a revolving door in the past 10 years.  It’s been host to about 5 different restaurants in that time.  It’s latest iteration is Modern City Chinese Restaurant, which hosts a somewhat eclectic menu of Chinese cuisine, it’s forte appears to be Shanghainese. We stopped in on…

Street food review: Vij’s Railway

I live and work downtown, but unfortunately on the south side of the downtown core.  And the bulk of the city’s street food vendors are on the north side.   Most of these vendors operate on weekdays during the lunch rush, and most close shop in the mid afternoon. From where I work, that means…

Restaurant review: Pink Pearl Chinese Restaurant

The Pink Pearl restaurant is something of a local institution. It feels like it’s been there on East Hastings  forever. Actually, our family remembers the original location of the Pink Pearl.  It started in North Vancouver at the Westview Shopping Plaza in the early 1980s.  We lived in North Vancouver at the time, and Pink…

Streetfood review: RimFoodBaht truck

So following along the “lets eat everything” theme for my Canada Day, while wandering around from one street food truck location to the next, we stumbled upon Rimfoodbaht (the authentic Thai street food vendor). This was quite luck because a) I had wanted to try it b) I didn’t know they’d be open today c)…

Restaurant review: Soho Road Naan Kebab

It’s Canada Day!  It’s a day for public parties and FOOD! Well, every day is a day for food, public events are now a draw for mobile food trucks. Weeks ago, I’d heard about a block party in the parking lot of the Waldorf Hotel on East Hastings in Vancouver, so I thought I’d check…

Streetfood review: Slingers Food Truck

I’ve wanted to try Slinger’s food truck for a while now, and finally had the chance last week. They’re located downtown on Thurlow street, between Hastings and Cordova (at least there were on this particular day). I perused the menu, and opted for The chicken parmesan sandwich This is a chicken cutlet, dipped in a…